| Art, Art History, Architecture | Additional Information |
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a CHOICE Highly Recommended site |
| Art Deadlines List | A monthly newsletter (via email or paper) with several hundred announcements (every month!) listing art contests & competitions, art scholarships & grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs & internships, call for entries/proposals/papers, ... and other opportunities (including some that take place on the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages. There is a limited free edition or a fee-based "premium edition." |
| Craft Organizations : Penland School of Crafts | a lengthy and refined list; other links on this page include Craft Resources, Craft Magazines, and Artist's Websites. |
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| African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective | |
| Archives of American Art | Smithsonian; a repository of primary materials; many collections
have been digitized, but some are still on microfilm. |
| African Art on the Internet | Stanford |
| Architecture and Building | core resource for architectural reference |
| archINFORM |
database of international architecture; includes information on more than
14,000 buildings and unrealized projects |
| ArchNet: Islamic Architecture Community | Conceived by the Aga Khan and developed at the MIT School of Architecture
and Planning and the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
in cooperation with The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a private,
nondenominational, international development agency. This is an exceptional
resource and a prime example of the promise of the Internet to
create global environments for sharing, learning, and research. |
| Art Access: African American Art | Art Institute of Chicago; Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Archibold J. Motley, jr., Richard Hunt, Alma Thomas, Romare Bearden, Kerry James Marshall, Glenn Ligon |
| Artcyclopedia: Guide to Great Art on the Internet | |
| Art, Design and Visual Thinking: An Interactive Textbook | from a course taught by Charlotte Jirousek at Cornell |
| Art History Research Center | |
| Art Images for College Teaching |
a personal, nonprofit Web site, with the intention of disseminating images
of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access,
free-use basis to all levels of the educational community. Including a wide
range of wonderful images, mostly paintings, sculpture, and architecture,
with an emphasis on the ancient, medieval, and the Renaissance in Europe. |
| ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Arts | in addition to definitions
contains many thumbnail images, and links to art sites |
| ArtsJournal : Daily Art News | Begun in 1999, the ArtsJournal site provides a digest of arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world, with links to stories in more than 200 free access newspapers, magazines, and publications....Available topics from the site's home page includes issues, dance, ideas, media, music, people, publishing, theater, and visual. |
| ArtSource | Art sites selected by an art librarian. |
| Art Studio Chalkboard | Focus is on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting. |
| Book Arts, Graphic Novels, and Comics on the Web | based on webliographies from the Association of College & Research Libraries |
| CAMEO: Conservation And Art Material Encyclopedia Online | an electronic database that compiles,
defines, and distributes technical information on terms, materials, and
techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation
as an extension of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston. |
| Cities and Buildings Database | U. of Washington; contains nearly
10,000 images; ability to search for buildings by country, city, style,
title, architect, and other fields |
| Le Corbusier Center | Le Corbusier Foundation |
| Core77.com: Design Magazine & Resource | |
| Decopix: The Art Deco Architecture Site |
a wide-ranging collection of art deco buildings and objects |
| Design Addict | |
| Digital Archive of American Architecture | Boston College |
| Exploring Themes in American Art | National Gallery of Art |
| from here to MODERNITY | focuses on short introductions to the founders of modern architecture; includes a building index and excellent images |
| Great Buildings Online | More than 1,000 structures from
around the world; the site includes many photographic images, architectural
drawings, discussions, bibliography, architect information, and live 3-D walkthroughs. Many of the downloadable
3-D models are provided free. |
| IFLA Directory of Art Libraries | directory of information on more than 3,000 art libraries around the world |
| Images of Women in Ancient Art: | sub-titled: Issues of
Interpretation and Identity;
explores archeological remnants of female representation in ancient art;
writing style is informative and casual |
| Images of American Design | offers tours of selected images from the approximately 17,000
watercolor renderings of American decorative arts objects from the colonial
period through the nineteenth century. |
| The International Archives of Women in Architecture | focuses on collecting materials on women in architecture prior to the
1950's; Virginia Tech and Virginia Polytechnic. |
| Landscape Architecture Online | UC-Berkeley; some resources restricted. |
| Medieval Art and Architecture | U. Pittsburg; a particularly good sub-set on Chartres |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History | |
| MIT Open Courseware: Architecture | a considerable array of non-credit courses open to the public from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Mother of All Art and Art History Links |
The strengths of this gateway site are its clear organization, breadth,
and variety of links; some of the best links are in contemporary, Asian, and
African art; U. Michigan |
| National Endowment for the Arts | |
| Prints and Photographs Online Catalog |
The catalog of the Library of Congress' prints and photographs; provides
access to more than 65 percent of the holdings, and provides documentation
for about 1 million images available online. |
| RIBA Library Online Catalogue @architecture.com |
The Royal Institute of British
Architects (RIBA) has developed a Web site that contains more than 250,000
pages of useful information about architecture, architects, their organization,
and membership. The Web site is the home page for a free index of more than
175,000 articles from more than 300 journals in 20 languages, 35,000 books,
and links to more than 1,000 other web sites. |
| Smithsonian Archives of American Art: The Papers of African American Artists | personal papers, gallery records, and oral history interviews on ten
African American artists, including Edward Mitchell Bannister, Romare Bearden,
Horace Pippin, and Henry Ossawa Turner |
| Turn of the Century Posters | mostly from the 1890's;
NY-Public Library |
| Smithsonian: Art and Design | |
| Structurae |
supported by Princeton University faculty; focused on works and art of
structural engineering- including architecture |
| Sustainable Architecture | U. Michigan; organized for online access using pdf files |
| The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750 | |
| Van Gogh's Letters |
letters of Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo; this is a comprehensive
and accurate collection, translated by Vincent's sister Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
and Robert Harrison. In the edited HTML version of the letters, topics are
highlighted for easy identification. A chronological calendar makes it easy
to browse by time period; a few facsimiles of the original letters are
included. |
| Voice of the Shuttle: Architecture |  |
| Voice of the Shuttle: Art History | covers all art except Modern &
Contemporary |
Voice of the Shuttle:
Art Modern and Contemporary  |
includes a subset of links on Art and Technology |
| Women Artists of the American West |
This Web site was developed as an Internet course and interdisciplinary
resource on women's contributions to art and history of the American West.
Content is broad ranging, loosely connected, but uniformly high in quality and
reliability. Purdue University. |
| WSSLINKS: Women & Art Sites | |
| WWW Virtual Library: Art History | |
| WWW Virtual Library: Ceramics | |
| Section Updated: 4 January 2010 | Section Created: 2 April 2003 |
| Pottery and Ceramics Internet Resources | Additional Information |
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| American Art Pottery Association | focuses on pottery of the Arts and Crafts period; also demonstrates frauds associated with this period. |
| American Ceramic Society | |
| Ceramics Today | &
Ceramics Today is a well-designed, extensive Web site featuring hundreds
of articles on ceramics, a gallery of a few hundred ceramic artists' work,
and a catalog of links to well more than a thousand Web sites covering a
vast array of topics on ceramics. |
| Clay Art Web Guide |
Vicki Hardin's extensive catalog of more than 1,500 Web sites on ceramics.
The thoughtful collected group of sites is divided into 50 categories
listing topics from art associations to virtual galleries and workshops. |
| Critical Ceramics | Topics in Contemporary Ceramic Art |
| Pottery Making Illustrated | contains information on safety, kiln loading, and so on. |
| Chinese Ceramics |
Pacific Asia Museum; Although many sites tend to focus on only porcelain wares,
the Pacific Asia Museum site covers a broader span of ceramics types,
critical to understanding the full impact of the Chinese ceramics trade on
world economics, style, and culture. |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Ceramics and Glass | of particular interest to researchers are the Reading Lists, for an example see below. |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian: American Art Pottery | an example of the Smithsonian's Reading Lists |
| e-Yakimono |
an impressive, thoroughly developed access point to the vast world of
contemporary and historic Japanese pottery |
| Mimbres Pottery | The National Museum of Natural History |
| Newcomb College Pottery | Tulane |
| Saving Southwest Traditions: The Pottery Project: 2,000 Years - 20,000 Vessels | Arizona State Museum |
| Singing the Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the Southwest Yesterday and Today | McClung Museum online exhibit |
| Women Artists of the American West: Pottery by American Indian Women | Purdue University |
| World Ceramics: Explore and Learn | written for K-12 teachers and students, from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the site examines 12 ceramic objects including both pots and figural ceramics |
| WWW-VL: Ceramics | very thorough, though some areas dated; major sub-headings are Resources and Information, Guilds, Studios and Museums, Shows and Events, and About VLC. |
| Ancient Greek, Roman and European Pottery |
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| Section Updated: 10 August 2010 | Section Created: 2 April 2003 |
| Photography: History and Virtual Exhibits | Additional Information |
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| Albumen Photographs: History, Science and Preservation | Stanford |
| Alfred Stieglitz | from PBS, contains biographical
information and complete career profile; also includes film clips |
| American Museum of Photography | |
| Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1933-1943 | For many people, the world of
Depression-era photography in the United
States can be characterized by somber black-and-white images....Interestingly
enough, there were a number of color images taken by photographers of the
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information from the years 1939
to 1943. |
| The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot |
nearly 10,000 letters from the inventor of photography |
| The Daguerreian Society and the Daguerreotype | of most interest is the NEA Research Database and the Galleries links. |
| The Digital Photography Exhibit | An international juried exhibit exploring new work created by artists who work with cameras and computers. |
| Edward Curtis's North American Indian | Library of Congress;
Eighty Native American tribes are represented in more
than 2,000 plates and illustrations from Curtis's original, substantial, and
often-controversial landmark work published serially from 1907 to 1930. |
| George Grantham Bain Collection |
a collection of more than 40,000 images; GGBain was one of the earliest
news picture agencies, the bulk of the collection focuses on New York from
1900-1929; but some images from as early as 1860 and as late as the 1930s are
also available. No restrictions curtail the use of the photos, which is great
news for anyone who wants to include the wonderful images in a Web site or
project. |
| History of Photography | Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s |
| Inge Morath Foundation | worked at Magnum Agency with Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa |
| International Center of Photography (New York) | the ICP is a
museum, a photography school, and a center for photography.
There always several online exhibits available for viewing. |
| The Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs |
NY-Public Library; a very fine digital collection of more than 8800 pieces |
| PhotoGraphicLibraries.com | online library of Web sites related to all aspects of photography, graphics, and design. Note: the site is a .com site and therefore contains advertising of various sorts. |
| Photo Study Collection Database | a subset of the Getty Museum site;
provides descriptions of the collections
in the library catalog along with two million black-and-white images, some rare
and unique. |
| Portraits by Carl van Vechten (1880-1964) | Library of Congress |
| Prints and Photographs Online Catalog |
catalogue to the Library of Congress' collection of photographs and
prints |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum: Helios: Photograph Collections | Collections include
The First Century of American Photographs, American Daguerreotypes |
| Tete a Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson | |
| UC-Riverside: California Museum of Photography | |
| Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America |
Collector James Allen uncovered an extraordinary legacy: photographs and
postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America. The site provides
access to the images as a Flash movie with narrative or as a gallery of
individual photos. |
| Section Updated: 10 August 2010 | Section Created: 2 April 2003 |
| Visual Literacy | Additional Information |
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| International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) | offers information on conferences, publications, and other resources. |
| The Journal of Visual Literacy | provides access to selected, archived articles. |
| The Visual Literacy White Paper | pdf file; commissioned by Adobe and written by Anne Bamford of the University of Technology at Sidney; comprehensive. |
| Selected Individual Articles | most in pdf format |
| Thoughts on Visual Literacy | pdf file; first published in the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts |
| Visual Literacy in Higher Education | pdf file; covers a definition of visual literacy and the need to integrate this skill into higher education |
| Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective | pdf file; emphasizes using visuals in instruction |
| Visual Literacy: What Is It and Do We Need It to Use Learning Technologies Effectively? | pdf file |
| How To Speak Out (Visually) at Your Library | first published in Library Philosophy & Practice, vol. 7, no. 2 (Spring 2005). |
| Resources for Teaching Visual Literacy | |
| Center for Media Literacy | includes visual literacy; focuses on K-12 classroom instruction |
| Edutopia | K-12; supported by the George Lucas Educational Foundation; a variety of video clips available whose purpose is to engage students in project-based learning and technology |
| Information Age Inquiry | a faculty member at the U. of Indiana at Indianapolis created this site as a resource for teachers in the area of educational technology integration |
| Information and Visual Literacy: Visual Literacy | AISPD Literacy Project; Australia |
| Jakesonline.org | offers a brief definition and links to resources for teachers; one interesting section provides examples of how to use Flickr to produce digital stories |
| Joel & Irene Benedict Virtual Literacy Collection | Created in 1989 at Arizona State; the site defines visual literacy as the ability to understand and produce visual messages. Some areas of the site are not updated frequently enough. |
| Project Zero's Patterns of Thinking | The mission of this project is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines. |
| The On-line Visual Literacy Project | A site that was created for a project in 1994 and is a guide to the basic elements of visual communication. |
| Visual Literacy K-8 | includes examples of maps, tables, timelines, and storyboards. |
| Visual Literacy Lesson Plans | updated August 2010 |
| Visual Literacy and 21st Century Skills | a wiki by David S. Jakes |
| VUE: Visual Understanding in Education | VUE conducts educational research focused on aesthetic and cognitive development that results from the interaction with art. |
| Section Updated: 9 August 2010 | Section Created: 2 November 2007 |
| Virtual Museums and Selected Online Exhibits | Additional Information |
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| WWW Virtual Library: Museum Page | a distributed directory of on-line museums |
| Artchive.com | allows searching by artist, movement, and so on |
| ArtGuide: The Art Lovers' Guide to Britain & Ireland | contains information concerning more than 1,900 named artists, 650 museums, and 4,500 individual or comprehensive exhibition listings |
| Art Institute of Chicago | |
| Cellblock Visions | a lively collection of inmate artwork,...Phyllis Kornfeld, creator of the site has been conducting art classes in prisons for 17 years . . . The site is attractively designed, easy to navigate, and its good quality images load quickly. |
| Chicano and Chicana Space | A Thematic, Inquiry-Based Art Education Resource, Arizona State University |
| Australian Cultural Heritage Collections Online | |
| Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
De Young Collections and
Legion of Honor Collections.
These art databases contain listings of paintings, drawings,
etchings, porcelain, sculpture, silver, glass, furniture, textiles and more.
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| First Nations Art (Canada) | A project of the faculty and students in the Dept. of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal. A straightforward introduction to First Nations contemporary artists. |
| The Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK) | masterpieces of painting from the 14th Century to the present; drawings and prints, sculpture, furniture, armour, pottery and glass, and so on; more than 117,000 images; searching is somewhat awkward but adequate. |
| Getty Museum | |
| The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center | one of 21 copies of the complete Gutenberg Bible, its digitization began in 2002 with the intention of offering the public cover-to-cover access to a unique copy; the result more than 1000 scanned pages of images; related sites include: |
| The British Library's Gutenberg Bible | and for a single all-purpose link there is Gutenberg Digital which features the Goettinger copy of the text, and adds a significant amount of contextual information on the Bibles. |
| Himalayan Art Resources | contains more than 20,000 images |
| Hay in Art | Perhaps surprisingly, a great deal happens around hay; this intriguing
site "gathers hay" as it appears in various artistic endeavors, ranging from
paintings to poetry |
| Hypnerotomachia Poliphili | HP was a 467-page book, published in Venice by Aldus Manutius in 1499; with only 2 dozen copies in existence it is a rare and expensive book. It was the first illustrated architectural book of the Italian Renaissance, with 172 woodcuts of varying shapes and sizes, many of ruins, landscapes, garden designs, and reconstructions of classical architecture. This is a complex book whose author used what one reviewer described as a hybrid invented language, with a dreamlike atmosphere. MIT hosts the site and offers free access to the 1499 edition. [FYI: the best modern translation of HP is Hypnerotomachia Poliphilli: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Joscelyn Goodwin published in 1999.] While navigation is straightforward, the web site of necessity must reflect the many levels on which this text can be explored. |
| Kiowa Drawings | Smithsonian |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art Exhibits Online | Los Angeles
County Museum of Art Collections Online |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |
| National Gallery of Art-- the collection | |
| National Museum of American Illustration |
covers the period from about 1880 to 1950; along with coverage of Wyeth,
Gibson, and Rockwell, there is comprehensive coverage of other
illustrators of the period |
| National Museum of Women in the Arts | |
| National Portrait Gallery | United Kingdom |
| Native American Artists: ArtNavAm | commercial on-line gallery exhibit |
| The Oriental Institute | University of Chicago |
| Publisher's Bindings Online: 1815-1930: The Art of Books | University of Alabama and University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 | part of the American Memory Project from the Smithsonian, more than 181 recorded interviews and nearly 400 photographs |
| Seattle Art Museum: Discovering Buddhist Art | excellent site; some of the best areas require that Flash Player be active |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum | George Catlin's
Indian Gallery |
| Tate Gallery | |
| Vatican Museums | offers an easy and attractive access to collections through informative texts and thoughtfully chosen coordinated images. |
| Victoria and Albert Museum | the largest museum of decorative arts in the world; has an
image database
of more than 43,000 images |
| Video Gallery: Getty Art Museum | |
| Wadsworth Athenaeum | America's oldest public art museum |
| Web Exhibits.org | contains several interesting and well-done exhibits including Causes of Color, Color Vision & Art, and Pigments Through the Ages |
| The Web Gallery of Art |
The Web Gallery of Art makes easily available digital reproductions of
19,300 European paintings and sculpture (1150-1800), and a few drawings,
some of them from relatively obscure sources and including fairly obscure
artists. Samples are given rather than comprehensive treatment. |
| The WebMuseum: Louvre | The first and in many respects still the best virtual museum. |
| Individual Artists Online Exhibits Specific Art Movements | |
| Aubrey Beardsley and | Art of Aubrey Beardsley |
| William Blake Archive | |
| Paul Cezanne | |
| Wassily Kandinsky | Wassily Kandinsky ARTcyclopedia |
| Angelica Kaufmann | ARTcyclopedia |
| On-line Picasso Project | Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue |
| Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) Foundation | site funded by the artist's estate; Steinberg worked for The New Yorker for more than 50 years. |
| The Vincent van Gogh Gallery | Site endorsed by the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam |
| The Essential Vermeer |
a wide range of information; offers a free subscription to online
Essential Vermeer Newsletter |
| Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Related Areas of Interest | |
| Pre-Raphaelites: An Introduction | from the Victorian Web; Brown University |
| Victorian Art in England | organized by cities and art galleries |
| Pre-Raphelites and Illustration | See also the List of Artists page with links to nearly 100 artists. |
| Pre-Raphaelite Art | Loggia: Exploring the Arts and Humanities |
| Pre-Raphaelites | artchive |
| The Rossetti Archive: |
The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
supported by the Creative Commons and Firefox and
Safari browsers. |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1826-1882 | Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836-1912 |
| Ford Madox Brown, 1821-1893 | Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-1898 |
| William Holman Hunt, 1827-1910; at the Fitzwilliam Museum | William Holman Hunt: An Overview |
| Frederic Leighton, 1830-1896 | John Everett Millais, 1829-1896 |
| Henry Stacy Marks, 1829-1898 | illustrations to Shakespeare |
| Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898 | Gustave Moreau, Symbolist |
| William Morris, 1834-1896 | |
| Joseph Noel Paton, 1821-1901: Shakespeare Illustrated | Joseph Noel Paton's Contribution to Fairy Painting |
| Edward J. Poynter, 1836-1919 | Odilon Redon, 1840-1916, Symbolist |
| William Bell Scott, 1811-1890 | Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) Research Archive |
| John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917 | |
| Section Updated: 12 January 2011 | Section Created: 2 April 2003 |