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    Art History
    Art Resources on the Web
      This site is a good source for art history resources available on the Internet. The site covers prehistoric, ancient, middle ages, renaissance, baroque, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, and non-European art.

    Asia Society
      "Asia Society Museum organizes groundbreaking exhibitions of both traditional and contemporary Asian and Asian American art. The Museum is known for its Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Collection of masterpiece-quality traditional Asian works. The collection, universally described as “gemlike,” includes objects from cultures across Asia that date from the eleventh century BCE to the nineteenth century CE. Asia Society Museum was one of the first American museums to establish a program of contemporary Asian art in the early 1990s. A recognized leader in identifying and fostering contemporary Asian and Asian American artists, the Museum announced the establishment of a Contemporary Art Collection in 2007."

    Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
      Information about the institute, public programs, exhibits, publications, research library, and scholars and seminars.

    Global Gateway
      Provided by the Library of Congress, this site focuses on world culture and resources through links to international collections, digital collections, presentations, exhibition, and research opportunities.

    The Mother of All Art History Link Pages
      Links are arranged in categories. The categories include research resources, art history departments, image collections, online exhibits, religion on the web, museums, textual and linguistic resources, computer information, and favorite links.

    Sister Wendy's American Collection
      "In Sister Wendy's American Collection, the engaging art critic moves beyond the world of daVinci and Monet to explore the wider riches of six of America's greatest museums: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, Forth Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Cleveland Museum of Art."

    Timeline of Art History
      "The Timeline of Art History provides an overview of the history of art as illustrated and represented in the Museum's collection. The material presented here has been researched, written, and reviewed by the Museum's curatorial staff. It serves as an important reference and research tool for anyone interested in studying art history and related subjects such as archaeology, anthropology, and history. As an online publication, it will expand in breadth and depth, and be continually updated with new scholarship from the Museum and key links to outside online resources."

    Voice of the Shuttle
      Information about art and art history.  Links to other pages with art information.

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    Education
    American Memory Homepage
      "American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning."

    Archives of American Art
      "The Archives of American Art, founded in 1954 and a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution since 1970, provides researchers with access to the largest collection of documents on the history of the visual arts in the United States. The collection now totals more than thirteen million items, consisting of the papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians, curators, administrators and the records of art dealers, museums, and other art-related businesses, institutions, and organizations."

    Art Images for College Teaching
      "Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl . AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature."

    Art Museum Image Consortium
      "The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit organization of institutions with collections of art, collaborating to enable educational use of museum multimedia."

    Art on the Web
      Over 1,200 links to information about art, art history, image collections, and much more.

    Artchive
      Galleries, CD-ROM sources, an image database, theory and criticism, and links can be found here.

    Artcyclopedia
      Featuring museum-quality art available on the web, this site allows you to search by artist's last name for information about him/her available on the web. The site also features a museum site, book, and art print each month.

    ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary
      Here you will find definitions of more than 2,800 terms, numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, quotations, and links to other resources on the Web.

    Arts and Picture History Library
      "With over fifty years experience in the picture business, akg-images is one of the leading sources of images for professional use. Our diverse range of subject areas includes Fine Art, History, Photography, Music, Religion, Science, Architecture and Archaeology."

    ArtsEdNet
      Educational information from the Getty Education Institute for the Arts.

    Artsource
      Links to art information including general resources and bibliographies, programs, libraries, online journals, exhibitions, events, image collections, museum information, and organizations.

    Ask Art
      "Over 23,000 North American artists including painters, sculptors, and illustrators are listed in this searchable resource. Digital images of the artists' work as well as auction data, brief biographies, book references, and periodical citations are included. Search by the last name and first name of an artist to see a basic profile page. Specialized lists include Hudson River School, California Artists, Early Taos, and other categories."

    Black Archives of Mid-America
      A collection of information about people, places, events, music, Juneteenth, baseball, and the Franklin Collection.

    The William Blake Archive
      "A free site on the World Wide Web since 1996, the Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility. A growing number of contributors have given the Archive permission to include thousands of Blake's images and texts without fees."

    Cornell University Image Collections
      The general public may access the image collections of Cornell University from this site.

    Digital Library Federation
      "The site offers you information about developing digital collections and managing networked information for the benefit of scholarship, education, and cultural progress. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services."

    Distance Learning at LCMA
      "LACMA offers teachers and students the opportunity to experience and explore the museum's collection of over 100,000 works of art through live, interactive videoconferencing. Classes incorporate images, activities, and inquiry-based teaching methods to engage students in lessons that focus on art and history. Most programs can be adapted for any grade or interest level including elementary, middle and high school students, educators, and community groups. Programs are aligned with the national and California content standards."

    Exploratorium
      The Exploratorium is the museum of science, art and human perception. Here you can view exhibits and participate in the online activities.

    Exploring Themes in American Art
      Visit this site to survey American art by theme: Abstraction, The Figure, Historical Subjects, Landscape Painting, Marine Painting, Portraiture, Narrative Art, Scenes from Everyday Life, Still Life, and Topographical Views. Each topic provides an illustrated essay linking to corresponding images, including bibliographies, exhibition history, and provenance; a list of over 100 artists, including biographies and works in the Gallery's collection; and a glossary. An easy-to-navigate exhibit within the National Gallery of Art's site, this teaching resource was adapted from an interactive program produced by the Department of Education Resources and is one of several excellent online teaching programs.

    Eyes on Art
      "A Learning to Look Curriculum." This site has activities for teachers and students to teach students how to learn to look at art. The site includes a teacher's guide, an art quiz, artspeak 101 and more.

    Harvard University Visual Information Access
      "The Visual Information Access (VIA) system is a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard, focusing on artistic and cultural materials. VIA includes catalog records for objects or images owned, held or licensed by Harvard. Access to the catalog is open to the general public: all catalog records and thumbnail images are available to everyone. Access to higher resolution images is usually available to the Harvard community, is always determined by an individual repository, and is often dependent on copyright."

    Heritage Image Partnership
      "Heritage Image Partnership is a new online picture library, distilled from the vast collections of our partners such as the British Library, Guildhall and the Science Museum. Most of these superb images have not previously been available commercially. They can now be viewed easily online, and ordered or downloaded at the touch of a button."

    Incredible Art Department
      This site has information and links of interest to art teachers. Lessons, chat, art rooms, cartoons, art news, art jobs and more can be found here.

    Inside Art: An Adventure in Art History
      "Inside Art is an online game which explores a painting from the inside out. During an art museum tour, you're sucked into a vortex and find yourself inside a mystery painting. Your only hope of escape is to answer the questions "Who?/What?/Where?/How?" A fish named Trish is your guide in this exploration of Van Gogh's Bank of the Oise at Auvers in its artistic and historical context."

    JStor
      "In the broadest sense, JSTOR's mission is to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies. In pursuing this mission, JSTOR has adopted a system-wide perspective, taking into account the sometimes conflicting needs of libraries, publishers, and scholars."

    Janson's History of Art
      Companion website for "Jansen's History of Art." The site features online quizzes, essay questions, dynamic links to websites, chat rooms and message boards and an extensive faculty module.

    NASA Multimedia Gallery
      Here you can find NASA's photo gallery, an audio gallery, a video gallery and their art gallery.

    National Directory of Teacher Programs and Resources in Art Museums
      The National Gallery of Art has compiled this list of programs for teachers. Art museums can offer multidisciplinary resources for teachers.

    World Art Treasures
      An imagebase with information about art from around the world.

    World Wide Art Resources
      This site is an art index that has its own search engine as well as a list of subjects to search. Many web magazines and reviewers have endorsed this site.

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    Organizations
    Accessible Arts
      "Accessible Arts values children and the arts. Above all, access to the arts for children with disabilities is our core principle. Advocacy, education and collaboration are essential components in accomplishing our objectives. Our beliefs are encompassed in the concept know as 'universal design' that does not disadvantage or stigmatize anyone."

    Art Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
      "The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City strengthens and enriches the community through the arts by developing visibility, participation, support, information, education, and partnerships." The Art Council also has a searchable list of art events on this site.

    Art KC
      "Our goal is to present the latest artwork produced by Kansas City regional artists. We hope you enjoy your visit and return often. We will be adding new artists and regularly upgrading each artist's page with their latest creations."

    Art Libraries Society of North America
      "The Art Libraries Society of North America was founded in 1972 at the initiative of Judith Hoffberg by a group of art librarians attending the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago. This group realized that to fulfill the need among art librarians for better communication and cooperation, and to provide a forum for ideas, projects, and programs, an entirely new and separate organization was required. The membership includes architecture and art librarians, visual resources professionals, artists,curators, educators, publishers, and others interested in visual arts information."

    College Art Association
      "Founded in 1911, the College Art Association: promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in creativity and technical skill in the teaching and practices of art; facilitates the exchange of ideas and information among those interested in art and history of art; advocates comprehensive and inclusive education in the visual arts; speaks for the membership on issues affecting the visual arts and humanities; provides publication of scholarship, criticism, and artists’ writings; fosters career development and professional advancement; identifies and develops sources of funding for the practice of art and for scholarship in the arts and humanities; honors accomplishments of artists, art historians, and critics and articulates and affirms the highest ethical standards in the conduct of the profession."
    International Directory of Art Libraries
      "This Directory is provided as a means to access nearly 3,000 libraries and library departments with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archaeology throughout the world. Data recorded for each institution includes address, telephone and tele-facsimile numbers, hours of operation, annual closings, and listings of professional personnel. It also includes electronic mail addresses of individual librarians and direct web links to institutional home pages."

    Kansas Arts Commission
      "A state agency, the Kansas Arts Commission was established in 1966 by the Kansas Legislature and is charged by its enabling legislation to increase the support, awareness and outreach of the arts in communities across the state."

    Mid America Arts Alliance
      "For over 25 years Mid-Amcerica Arts Allicance has worked to transform lives and build communities by uniting people with the power of art. We continue to believe that providing access, assuring affordability, broadening understanding and nuturing communities culturally and creatively are vitally important.

    National Endowment for the Arts
      Information about the NEA, the Arts Resource Center, access information, email addresses, an archive, news, and the Non-Profit Gateway can be found here.

    Storytellers Inc.
      "Storytellers Inc., Artist Collective - a 501 (c) 3 visual and performing arts organization - is designed to provide new venues for local artists and then train those artists to provide interactive community art experiences for the purpose of educating and resensitizing the community through the arts."

    Visual Resource Association
      "The Visual Resources Association is a multi-disciplinary community of image management professionals working in educational and cultural heritage environments. The Association is committed to providing leadership in the field, developing and advocating standards, and providing educational tools and opportunities for its members."

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    Publications
    The Artists' Magazine
      "The Artist’s Magazine celebrates the creative life and the creative act, the artist as well as the art, by showcasing the best work—in all media and in all styles—of the best artists working today. With beautiful color reproductions, engaging interviews, lively discussions of timely issues, practical lessons in craft, and news of exhibitions and events, The Artist’s Magazine inspires, informs, encourages and instructs so that an artist’s creative life will be filled with success as well as pleasure."

    Arts Journal
      "Arts Journal is a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism. Each day Arts Journal combs through more than 180 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture."

    Resource Library
      "Resource Library is an electronic publication devoted to American representational art, including aspects of both a scholarly journal and a popular magazine. It maintains a balance between both emphases. The content timeline spans the Colonial period to the present and covers significant artistic achievement in every state of the Union, while building an interconnected body of knowledge including, but not limited to, the relationships of American artists to their teachers in European and American art centers, schools and ateliers. The publication provides a comprehensive record of American museum exhibitions and evolving cultural emphases within its field on interest."

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    Miscellaneous
    Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
      "This ambitious multi-year endeavor will digitize the 15,000 individual prints, drawings, and watercolors from The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection. The artwork vividly documents all aspects of military and naval history, with emphasis on the history and illustration of world military and naval uniforms from the 17th century to the present. In addition to the material on military and naval dress, this digital collection includes portraiture, caricatures, wartime posters, original photographs, and graphics on military and naval history in general, campaigns and battles, the arts and tactics of warfare, drills and regulations. There is a vast amount of material pertaining to military decorations and insignia, heraldic ornaments, armor, weaponry, equitation, flags, knightly orders, court and ceremonial dress, architecture, and the general history of costume."

    Art Historians' Guide to the Movies
      This fun site features the art historians' guide, monuments in the movies, works of art that appear in the movies (broken down by period of art), architecture, and non-western art.

    Art Magick
      "ArtMagick is a non-profit virtual art gallery displaying paintings from art movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries (for example, Symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau). The site places an emphasis on displaying works of art by artists who have been forgotten or neglected in recent years. The majority of paintings on display have a mythological or literary subject matter."

    Art Nouveau
      This site is has information about the Art Nouveau / Jugendstil period.

    Art Resource
      "Art Resource is the worlds largest fine art stock photo archive, licensing authorized images to all media. Our digital library contains over 100,000 keyword-searchable fine art images from the world's leading sources."

    Artistopia
      "iCubator Labs (Artistopia.com's parent company) is the first company to deliver a clear, potent, and qualified strategy for artists and music industry professionals to come together under one roof and speak one language - potential success! At Artistopia, membership programs are painstakingly designed for one specific purpose: to offer the artists with a fair and uniform approach to shift their music careers into a higher gear."

    The Arts in Victorian Britain
      Information about the arts during the Victorian era. This site has sections on architecture, paintings, fashion and dress, sculpture, design, illustration, photography, art criticism and a list of helpful resources.

    ARTstor
      "ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. The ARTstor Charter Collection will initially be comprised of approximately 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data. The Charter Collection will provide students, faculty, curators, and staff with access to a large and expanding resource of digital images and data for teaching and research in art history, as well as - more broadly - in the humanities and other disciplines. ARTstor's digital library will contain approximately half a million images by the summer of 2006."

    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
      You can use the databases on this site to access information and images of rare books and manuscripts.

    Bridgeman Art Library
      "The Bridgeman Art Library is the world's leading source of art images, representing museums, galleries and artists throughout the world by providing a central source of fine art for image users."

    CGFA
      An imagebase that can be searched by artist name or new addition to the database. Each artist's biography is available along with some images of his or her artwork.

    Digital Scriptorium
      "The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research."

    The Electronic Gallery
      Images of a variety of periods and styles of artwork. Featured artists, what's new, and an index of artists are available here.
    Gallery of the Open Frontier
      "The Gallery of the Open Frontier is a digital library of photos, paintings and drawings that pertain to the history of the American West. This online resource, drawn initially from the primary collections of the National Archives, is a platform where scholars, researchers and university students, primary and secondary school students, and the interested citizen can easily traverse a visual history of the American frontier."

    Global Children's Art Gallery
      Part of the Natural Child Project, the Global Children's Art Gallery features art by children from around the world. Children may send pictures to be added to the art gallery.

    Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
      "All visual arts, including the many forms of architecture, are represented here as are all the performing arts including music, drama and theater. Guides to museums, galleries and regional culture are also present."

    Insecula
      Insecula is an encyclopedia of arts and architecture. The site is in French, but has an English section.

    Internet for the Fine Arts
      An international on-line community and network of artists, galleries, museums, and resources for the fine arts. Information about membership, services, artists, galleries, organizations, art links, and the art post are features that can be found here.

    Lewis Walpole Library
      "The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection presents images from the Library's collections. The main focus of the Digital Collection is the Library's world-renowned collection of English caricatures and political satirical prints from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Included are works by Bunbury, Woodward, Gillray, Rowlandson, and Newton, among others."

    Luminarium
      The site was designed to be a multimedia experience in the periods (midieval, renaissance, 17th century). The site developer was searching for a site that would help one to visualize what he/she is reading when there is a small illustration or a tidbit about the background of the author or his work. The music and art of the period serve to complement one's rational experience of the site with the emotional.

    Marine Art Information Center
      Information about marine art, a picture gallery, marine art history, photographs, reference sources, museums, and links to other information available on the Internet.

    Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
      "The core of the whole site is a scholarly database. This database contains all kinds of information about the illuminated medieval manuscripts of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum."

    Terra Foundation for American Art
      "The Terra Foundation for American Art has been dedicated to fostering exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States for national and international audiences. As the foundation continues to expand support in its area of focus—matching its resources with needs in the field of American art presentation, scholarship, and education—so, too, will this site grow. We will be working hard to be your resource for American art, and welcome your feedback on how this might be best achieved."

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