Online Resources - General

Tools

• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) - The Getty Research Institute

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/index.html

“AAT is a structured vocabulary, including terms, descriptions, and other information for generic concepts related to art and architecture.”

• Artists Papers Register http://www.apr.ac.uk/artists/home.htm

A location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

• Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA) - The Getty Research Institute

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/cona/index.html

Under development but scheduled to go live in 2012. This new vocabulary will  include titles, attributions, and other information for works of art and architecture.

• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online http://www.rep.routledge.com/?&authstatuscode=200
• Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) - The Getty Research Institute

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html

“TGN is a structured vocabulary, including names, descriptions, and other information for places important to art and architecture.”

• Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) - The Getty Research Institute

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html

“ULAN is a structured vocabulary, including names, biographies, and other information about artists and architects.”

Aboriginal Art

• University of Saskatchewan Indigenous Studies Research Tool (iPortal)   http://iportal.usask.ca/  An excellent resource 
• Aboriginal Canada Portal - Government of Canada http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/eng/ao32102.html   Search artist information by artist name or aboriginal group.
• Canadian Museum of Civilization   http://collections.civilization.ca/
• The Canadian Register of Historic Places http://www.historicplaces.ca/  Search Saskatchewan Petrogyphs and sites: for Herschel Petroglyph/Tipi Ring Site; St. Victor Petroglyphs Provincial Park; Swift Current Creek Petroglyph Boulder.
• Glenbow Museum http://www.glenbow.org/
• Library of Congress  http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/067_curt.html 
• Royal BC Museum  http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/MainSite/default.aspx
• Scott Polar Research Institute (University of Cambridge)  http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/armc/
• Native North American Visual Artists (VIRCONA) http://bbmsl.unm.edu/ 
• National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)  http://www.nmai.si.edu/ 

African Art

• Africa south of the Sahara – Selected internet resources  http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html 
• Art and Life in Africa Project http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart
• Penn Museum African Section http://www.penn.museum/about-our-collections/220-african-section.html
• Royal Museum for Central Africa http://www.africamuseum.be/home
• G.I. Jones Photographic Archives of Southeastern Art and Culture http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/
• National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution)  http://africa.si.edu/

Asian Art

• Asian Art Museum http://www.asianart.org/
• Asian Art http://www.asianart.com/index.html
• Kyoto National Museum  http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/syuzou/index.html 
• Digital Scrolling Paintings Project - Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago http://scrolls.uchicago.edu/

Ancient Art

• Art Images for College Teaching  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/aict  A royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community developed by art historian and photographer Allan T. Kohl
• Perseus Digital Library http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
• Theban Mapping Project http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/

Classical World

• Classical Art Research Centre and the Beazley Archive http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm
• Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/

Canadian Art

• African Nova Scotians  http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africanns/
• ARTSask http://www.artsask.ca/en/ 
• Artefacts Canada  http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/artefact/index-eng.jsp 
• Artists in Canada  http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/aac-aic-eng.jsp 
• Artists in Canada.com  (Directory) http://www.artistsincanada.com/
• At Work: Historical Image of Labour in Saskatchewan http://scaa.sk.ca/gallery/labour/index.html  
• The Banff Centre http://www.banffcentre.ca/
• Canadian Archival Information Network http://www.archivescanada.ca/car/menu.html  Canadian art history, artists, visual and material culture.
• The Canadian Letters & Images Project  http://www.canadianletters.ca/aboutus.php  Collections include material on Pre-1914, World War I, World War II, Korea, Post Korea and Special Items.
• Canadiana.org | Early Canadiana Online  | Canadian Discovery Portal  http://www.canadiana.ca/en/home  Large-scale online collection of early Canadian print heritage. The Canadiana Discovery Portal searches digital collections of libraries, archives and museums from across Canada.
• Canadian Encyclopedia  http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1  Historical and biographical articles on Canadian events, timeline of events, interactive thematic galleries etc.
• Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto) http://www.ccca.ca/    “…documenting the careers of some of Canada's leading professional artists, designers, art writers and curators, as well as some important Canadian art institutions and organizations that have helped shape the Canadian art scene since the 1960s.”
• Canadian Women Artists History Initiative  http://cwahi.concordia.ca/  Artist Files, Artist Database, Reviews Database and other resources.
• Canadiana.org | Early Canadiana Online  | Canadian Discovery Portal  http://www.canadiana.ca/en/home  online collection of early Canadian print heritage. The Canadiana Discovery Portal searches digital collections of libraries, archives and museums from across Canada.
• The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)  http://www.rcip-chin.gc.ca/index-eng.jsp 
  • VMC Virtual Museum.ca  http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/Search.do?ig=on&lang=en  “The Image Gallery showcases thousands of artefacts, photos, paintings and objects from Canadian museums.“
  • CHIN's Professional Exchange  http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/index-eng.jsp 
• National Gallery of Canada – Cybermuse http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/Search.do?R=VE_130&lang=en&ex=on 
• Index to Art in Canada to 1930 – National Gallery of Canada Library & Archives http://www.gallery.ca/indexartcanada/search.jsp?Lang=EN
• Ukrainian Museum of Canada (Saskatoon) http://www.umc.sk.ca/page/collections
• University of Saskatchewan Archives Photograph Database  http://www.usask.ca/archives/databases.php
• Visual & Textual Documents on Art and Architecture in Canada  http://art-history.concordia.ca/canada_documents/about.html  This Searchable database covers the art documents of the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.
• Women Artists in Canada  http://epe.lacbac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/waic/index.html  This excellent site offers a collection of images, articles, and biographies of Canadian women artists.

Canadian Museums

• Art Gallery of Ontario http://www.ago.net/
• Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal) http://www.cca.qc.ca/en
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (Ottawa) http://www.gallery.ca/en/
• Design Exchange http://www.dx.org/  
• Gardiner Museum (Toronto) http://www.gardinermuseum.on.ca/  Ceramics
• McCord Museum (Montreal)  http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/en/index.html
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto) http://www.mocca.ca/
• Museum of Anthropology (UBC, Vancouver) http://www.moa.ubc.ca/
• National Gallery of Art (Ottawa) http://www.gallery.ca/en/
• Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto) http://www.rom.on.ca/
• Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto) http://www.textilemuseum.ca/
• Vancouver Art Gallery http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/

European Art

• Art Images for College Teaching  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/aict  A royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community developed by art historian and photographer Allan T. Kohl
• Art Museums in Europe – Art Cyclopedia  http://www.artcyclopedia.com/museums-int.html
• Art Project  http://www.googleartproject.com/  Select one of the 17 museums and choose ‘Explore the museum’ or ‘View Artwork’. Once you are in the main site use the drop-down menus or the side info bar to navigate between artworks and museums. Finally create and share your own collections online.
• Artnet  http://www.artnet.com/  Artist directory, auctions, and price database.
• Ashmoleon Museum of Art and Archeology (Oxford) http://www.ashmolean.museum/collections/?type=resources Online collections include John Ruskin’s Teaching Collection; Thomas Burgon watercolour paintings of Greek antiquities; prints; ceramics etc.
• The Cave of Chauvet Pont D’Arc http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html
• Eastern Art Online (Ashmolean) http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/
• Europeana http://www.europeana.eu/portal/  Online interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival object. Search by media type: image, video, text and sound.
• Lascaux Cave http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/fr/00.xml
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (MOMA)  http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
• Mapping Gothic France  http://www.mappinggothicfrance.org/
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - Corsair  http://utu.morganlibrary.org/index.htm
• The Medici Archive Project http://www.medici.org/

• Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource  http://www.preraphaelites.org/
• David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/  “The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.”
• The State Hermitage Museum http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html
• Victoria and Albert Museum  (UK)  http://collections.vam.ac.uk/  Search the database for a wide wide range of objects, including painting, sculpture, photographs, prints, textiles, fashion, metalwork, furniture, ceramics, and glass.
• Virtual Museum of Canada  http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/index-eng.jsp
• Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga.hu/  The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850)
• World Images http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/

Modern and Contemporary

• AccessCeramics  http://accessceramics.org/  Images of contemporary ceramics. Search by institution, collection, artist, glazing or surface, material, object type, technique and temperature.
• Art Metropole  http://www.artmetropole.com/  This artist run centre “specializes in the contextualization and dissemination of artist’s books, multiples, and related materials with an emphasis on innovative formats and emergent technologies.”
• Euromuse.net  - the exhibition portal for Europe http://www.euromuse.net/en/home/
• INIVA - Institute of International Visual Arts (UK) http://www.iniva.org/ “Iniva creates exhibitions, publications, multimedia, education and research projects engaging with new ideas and emerging debates in the contemporary visual arts which reflect the diversity of contemporary society.”
• International Directory of Sculpture Parks & Gardens http://www.bbk.ac.uk/sculptureparks/
• Media Art Net http://www.mediaartnet.org/ 

• Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) http://www.moma.org/
• Revolution Art Women  (RAW /WAR) http://rawwar.org/  community-curated archive and an accompanying installation
• Rhizome.org   http://rhizome.org/  This non-profit organization “is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.”  Their online archive of digital art, Rhizome ArtBase, is searchable.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture http://www.nypl.org/collections
• Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery   http://americanart.si.edu/
• Tate  (UK) http://www.tate.org.uk/  British, modern and contemporary art. Searchable database of Tate’s collection and video and audio clips for your own personal, educational or for non-commercial research available through Tate Channel, Tate Shots Blog and Podcasts.

• Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)  http://www.vads.ac.uk/ Access to a large searchable database of visual arts digital resources for users in UK higher education.
• WGBH Open Vault - Media library and archives  http://openvault.wgbh.org/
• Women Artist Archives National Directory (USA)  http://waand.rutgers.edu/

Photography

• The British Museum http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx
• Calisphere  http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/ Images, text, and audio and video recordings
• The Dutch East Indies in Photographs, 1860-1940 http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/nederlands-indie_in_fotos,_1860-1940.
• Edward S. Curtis Frontier Photographer http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Curtis/index.htm  This Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition site includes documentation of Curtis’ photographs, his photographic technique, working on the frontiers and other topics.
• Panoramas.dk http://www.panoramas.dk/about-nyberg.html
• Euromuse.net the exhibition portal for Europe  http://www.euromuse.net/en/home/
• George Eastman House http://www.eastmanhouse.org/
• Hans S. Dommasch North of 60  http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/northern/dommasch/   University of Saskatchewan Archives exhibit of Hans S. Dommasch's public lecture and slide presentation on his travels in northern Canada.
• Images of Empire http://www.imagesofempire.com/bin/empire.dll/go?a=disp&t=home-loader.html&_max=0&_maxlb=0&si=    “Images of Empire from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum is the largest dedicated online resource of still and moving images on the British colonial period.” Bristol, UK
• International Center of Photography- eMuseum (New York) http://emuseum.icp.org/ ICP is a both a “museum and school dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of photography"  eMuseum is ICP’s searchable database of their collection of photography.

• Library of Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division  http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ Search by collection or type: Edward S. Curtis; Ansel Adams; Farm Security Administration; daguerreotype; Stereograph Cards; Panoramic Photographs; Webcasts by photographers Edward Burtynsky, Marilyn Nance and others.
• LIFE Photo Archive  http://images.google.com/hosted/life Search millions of photos from this archive from 1750 to today.

• McCord Museum (Montreal) http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/keys/virtualexhibits/notmanstudio/exploration/video/  William Notman collection. Short movie clips about the life of William Notman and photographic studio
• National Gallery of Canada  http://www.gallery.ca/en/  Search the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography collections and exhibitions through the National Gallery of Canada.
• The New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Collection (PCO) Picture Collection Online
  • http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm  Cabinet Card Portraits, documentary photographs of Lewis Wickes Hine, prison photographs, Russia and Eastern Europe photographic albums are a small part of this immense collection.
  • http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=all  Images covering a wide range of searchable subjects which “has met the needs of New York's large community of artists, illustrators, designers, teachers, students, and general researchers.” 
• Collection of Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins, ca. 1874-1890 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2x0nb5r3/
• The Royal Commonwealth Society Photograph Project  http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs_photo_project/homepage.html “Dating from the mid-1850s to the mid-1980s the photographs provide insight into the history of the Commonwealth, documenting developments in a wide variety of fields including medicine, education and industry.”
• TATE  (UK) http://www.tate.org.uk/  British, modern and contemporary art. Searchable database of Tate’s collection and video and audio clips for your own personal, educational or for non-commercial research available through Tate Channel, Tate Shots Blog and Podcasts.
• Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) http://www.vads.ac.uk/  Access to a large searchable database of visual arts digital resources for users in UK higher education.
• Victoria and Albert Museum (UK)  http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ Search the database for a wide wide range of objects, including painting, sculpture, photographs, prints, textiles, fashion, metalwork, furniture, ceramics, and glass.