Herron Art Library - Art Research Guide
Maintained by Sonja Staum, Subject Librarian for Art.
Finding Images
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive provides a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history.
All the Web - Picture, video, and audio files
- AlltheWeb's index (provided by Yahoo!) includes billions of web pages, as well as tens of millions of PDF and MS Word® files. Yahoo! frequently scans the entire web to ensure that our content is fresh and to eliminate broken links.
- AlltheWeb offers a variety of specialized search tools and advanced search features, and supports searching in 36 different languages.
- Our News search (provided by Yahoo!) offers up to the minute news from thousands of news sources all across the globe, with hundreds of stories indexed every minute.
- Our image, audio, and video searches include hundreds of millions of multimedia files.
Aluka Digital Library
Aluka is an international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions working together to build a growing online digital library of scholarly primary and supporting materials from and about Africa.
Free preview access to Aluka will be available to not-for-profit institutions as well as individuals through 30 June 2008. To gain access to Aluka during this period, please create a User ID.
ARTStor
ARTstor provides access to digital art images and related data. The online image repository currently contains approximately 500,000 images. Enter your IUPUI username and password to access this database.
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO - OCLC)
OCLC´s Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
Corbis Image Archive
Microsoft's image archive, browsable by subject - licensed and royalty free images. Corbis is the world's preeminent visual solutions provider - licensing images seen by millions of people daily in advertising, books, newspapers, magazines, on TV, and in films. Communication professionals turn to our photography, art, and footage to differentiate brands, support news stories, sell products, and entertain audiencesÑall with maximum power, creativity, and emotion.
Herron Digital Image Library
This collection includes electronically licensed images covering art pre-history to present. Access to images is restricted. Please enter your IUPUI username and password.
Getty Images
Getty Images employs some of the world's most renowned photographers, artists, photojournalists and creative researchers, keeping the company on the cutting edge of creating relevant and unique imagery that helps shape the visual world. Getty Images has been credited with the introduction of royalty-free photography and was the first company to license imagery via the web, subsequently moving the entire industry online. The company was also the first to employ creative researchers to anticipate the visual content needs of the world's communicators, and Getty Images remains the first and only publicly traded imagery company in the world.
National Gallery of Art
Click on "The Collection" for a searchable database of the NGA's collections. Images plus a bibliography, exhibition history, provenance and other information.
OAIster
OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services, originally funded through a Mellon grant (see the final report). Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone.
Otis College of Art and Design Artists' Book Image Database
PhotoMuse
This
site, a collaborative effort of the George Eastman House and
International Center of Photography, provides in-depth access to the
extensive photography resources of both institutions.
SPIRO University of California, Berkeley: Architecture Visual Resources Library
SPIRO is a web-based tool for searching UC Berkeley's architectural slide library. SPIRO contains surrogate images of photographs and drawings from approximately 2,000 books, 200 periodical titles, and 100 postcards, posters, and calendars. SPIRO also contains surrogate representations of slides from 25 slide vendors and 220 donors. Because the photographs from which the digital surrogates were made are copyrighted, please do not download or otherwise use any images in WebSPIRO without permission of the copyright holder.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) Design Council Slide Collection
The
Design Council Slide Collection contains nearly 3000 fully catalogued
images covering a wide range of subjects including tableware,
furniture, lighting, toys, domestic appliances, textiles, wallpapers,
office equipment, engineering components and machinery. Other areas of
design such as architecture, town planning, interior design, graphic
design and corporate identity are also included. The addition of this
resource to the collections already on-line means that VADS now
provides more than 6000 images and records covering many areas of late
20th century design, for use in research, learning and teaching.
WorldImages
Provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It
contains over 50,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all
areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its
images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes.
Web Resources
American Art
The journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
American Studies Web - Georgetown University
Web sites to Art, Art History, Photography and more . . .
ARLIS/NA
Art Libraries Society of North America
Art Deadlines List
Competitions, contests, internships, etc., related to the arts.
Art History Resources on the Web
An art history portal with extensive links to many historical periods, geographical regions, and museums.
Artline
Includes dealers, associations, gallery exhibitions, art fairs, and events
Art Museum Network
The world's largest and most prestigious art museums collaborate on AMN to provide information about their collections, exhibitions, and news.
Baseline
Website for Baseline magazine; tables of contents and selected articles.
Book Arts Web Page
Features links to a large selection of book arts related sites on the web, including galleries with images
British Library Images Online
Offers access to thousands of unique and unusual images from the illuminated manuscripts, archive photographs, maps, and engravings held by the British Library.
CAA
College Art Association
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Covers the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Science Center, Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Magazine.
CCA Collections Online
The CCA Collection, comprising works dating from the Renaissance to the
present day, documents the culture of architecture throughout the world. This database provides access to the catalogue
records for over 150,000 photographs, drawings, albums, models, prints,
related artifacts, documents, and ephemera in the Prints and Drawings
and Photographs collections.
CeramicsWeb
Ceramic and Art Sites Around the World
Clearinghouse of Image Databases
Collaborative Digitization Program
Contemporary Artist Portfolios
Over 150,000 portfolios listed, sortable by medium, subject matter, and country.
Contemporary Art Research Guide
An assortment of print and electronic resources focused on contemporary art; this page created by Marilyn Berger, Head Librarian at the Blackader Lauterman Library at McGill University.
Counterspace
A website dedicated to typography and its history.
Online community where people can meet, share resources and promote fine crafts.
dafont.com
Archive of freely downloadable fonts.
Dia Art Foundation
Contemporary Art
Dutch University Institute for Art History (DUIA ) in Florence (Italy)
Also known as Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI) or Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte (IUO). The DUIA Library focuses on Italian, Dutch and Flemish art.
The Essential Resources for Visual Resource Professionals
University of Michigan page of select websites on topics including image collections, copyright issues, and professional associations.
A Magazine for the Type & Graphics Professional
The Getty
Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Bibliography of the History of Art, Union List of Artist Names, Thesaurus of Geographic Names, and lots more!
H-AfrArts
Co-sponsored by H-NET and the Arts Council of the African Arts
ImageBase
A searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Journal of Artists' Books
Since 1994 JAB has been publishing articles on the intersections of
book arts, artists books, poetry, photography, experimental literature,
printmaking, graphic design as well as showcasing the creative effforts
of practicing artists through cover designs, artists pages, and
inserts. The new web site provides PDF versions of back issues and a
comprehensive name index of all the authors, artists, and presses
that have been discussed within articles or whose artwork has appeared
as a part of the journal, providing a rich resource for the study of
the field of artists' books.
Microsoft Typography
Microsoft's Typography group researches and develops fonts and font technologies, and supports the development of TrueType fonts by independent type vendors.
Museum Computer Network
A nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies
MUVA (Virtual Museum of Arts)
(in English and Spanish)
NEA
National Endowment for the Arts
National Gallery of Art
Collections, Exhibitions, Education and more!
National Gallery of Art (NGA) Past Exhibitions
This site offers a narrative summary and key facts for each of the more than 750 special exhibitions held at the Gallery from 1941 through 1997.
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
National Portrait Gallery (U.K)
The National Portrait Gallery's collection shows the most influential characters in British history portrayed by the finest artists of their generation. It is searchable by artist, sitter, or title of the work.
NYFA Interactive
Website of the New York Foundation of the Arts
NYFA Source
NYFA Source is the most extensive national directory of awards, services, and publications for artists. Listings include over 4,200 arts organizations, 2,900 award programs, 4,200 service programs, and 900 publications for individual artists across the country.
New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
The
Picture Collection Online presents more than
30,000 digitized images from books, magazines
and newspapers as well as original photographs,
prints and postcards, mostly created before
1923.
Perseus Digital Library
Archaic and Classical Greece. Contributors include over 70 museums
Progetto Piero della Francesca
Website detailing the restoration of the frescoes of Piero della Francesca
Renaissance Quarterly
Renaissance Quarterly is the leading American journal of Renaissance studies, encouraging connections between different scholarly
approaches to bring together material spanning the period from 1300 to 1650 in Western history.
Scholar's Resource
Offers images from Saskia, LTD, Davis Art Images, Hartill Art Associates, Archivision and The Bridgeman Art Library.
SIRIS
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System; with over 1,700,000 records, SIRIS covers a wide variety of topical subjects from Art & Design, to History & Culture, to Science & Technology.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Online exhibitions and image database
the-artists.org
Presents information about the major 20th Century and contemporary visual artists. With portraits, dates and places of birth -and death-, links to resources with artworks, biographies and articles.
An interactive experience informed by type and typography. It aims to illustrate the depth and import of type, and to raise relevant questions about how typography is treated in the digital media, specifically online.
U&lc Online
ITC's international journal of graphic design and digital media. U&lc Online needs no subscription; it's part of the ITC web site, itcfonts.com.
Umbrella
Electronic journal
Visual Resources Association
Research and education in the field of visual resources
Whitney ARTPORT: The Whitney Museum Portal to Net Art
William Gedney Photographs and Writings
Duke University's Electronic Scriptorium presents this huge digital collection of the work of photographer William Gedney.
Writer's Handbook: Documentation Styles
Provides general information about documentation as well as links to examples of the major documentation styles including American Political Science Association (APSA), American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago/Turabian, Council of Biology Editors (CBE), Modern Language Association (MLA), and numbered references.
Women's Studio Workshop
Founded in 1974 by four women artists who were committed to developing an alternative space for artists to create new work and to come together to share skills. Awards grants and fellowships.
World of Escher
A site that explores the unique works of Dutch graphic artist, M.C. Escher.
The World of Fonts
Essay by Dmitry Karsanov from Dmitry's Design Lab
World Wide Art Resources
Contains artists and arts organizations
If you can't find what you are looking for ... please ask a library staff member for assistance.
Compiled 5/99;
rev 10/07, 2/08
ssk, ja
