Research Guides: Visual Arts: Resources for the Visual Arts

About ART resources

Find information on the VISUAL ARTS with these resources. Choose from databases (for articles & images), streaming videos, and eBooks.

Free Images from Museums
Identify hundreds of thousands of free images from world-renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Have to do a basic search to start - and then apply FILTERS for "Producers" to limit to museums.
Guggenheim's Collection Online
Features more than 1700 artworks by more than 625 artists in a searchable database.
The British Library's Flickr Albums
1,023,714 photos organized by topic.
Open Culture
A "meta-list" of free works of art online with links to museum collections.
Louvre Museum Atlas Database
The database covers all the works exhibited in the museum - some 30,000 items. Internet users, like museum visitors, will find the usual explanatory texts that accompany museum exhibits, compiled under the authority of the museum curators.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection
Access images from the Met's collections.
Additional resources: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features

Art Full Text (HW Wilson)
Journals and magazines on art topics.
EBSCOhost database collection. Part of OmniFile
Art Index Retrospective (HW Wilson)
Citations only (no full-text articles) from art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. 1929 -1984.
EBSCOhost database collection. Part of OmniFile
JSTOR
Journals archive. Subscription includes Arts & Sciences collections I, II, III, IV, V, VII, and XI and the Life Sciences collection
Use advanced search: 1) limit the item type to articles, 2) select date range, and 3) narrow to a specific discipline.
ProQuest Research Library
General interest periodical database. Journals available.

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
e-books on a variety of academic subjects from leading academic publishers and university presses. Collection is primarily monographs but includes some reference titles.
Oxford Reference
Reference books from Oxford University Press. Includes Digital Reference Shelf and Premium collections.

Credo Reference is a collection of reference resources. Links are provided to articles in other library databases for some topics.

Credo Reference
Online reference collection of subject encyclopedias, handbooks, and guides,that cover over 80 major subject disciplines. Entries include visual aids, images, photographs and maps.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications
Full-text online books from MetPublications.

Art & Architecture Collection (Films on Demand)
Streaming videos on applied art, architecture, art appreciation, art history, and photography.

Art and Architecture books are in the N section on the shelves.

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