Internet Resources by Subject: Art & Architecture

"... a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources."

The NGA site provides access to the wide variety of resources to be found at the Gallery. Searching of the collection is available by artist, title, subject, etc. Provides access to many online images of the collection.

" Explore 881,711 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.

This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more."

"...is the voice of the architecture profession..." The organization provides guidance, service, and standards for architects.

"... a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources."

Sponsored by the U.S. State department, the program exhibits works of art by U.S. Citizens in the public rooms of American diplomatic residences worldwide. The site allows users to choose a location and view images of the displayed works of art.

Extensive artworks and related archives consisting primarily of modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on Latin America. Also includes Colonial Latin American art, international decorative arts, and a selection of Latin American landscapes from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century.

In 1936 the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project joined the Harlem Renaissance, when the WPA commissioned a set of murals designed for the Harlem Hospital Center. In an era where African American visual artists had a particularly difficult time finding work, this project represented a unique opportunity. While the murals fell into disrepair over the decades, they were finally restored to their original glory in the 1990s. Created by the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, this site tells the story of these murals, their creators, and the controversy surrounding their subject matter. The site contains a number of video clips that talk about the artwork, along with some nice biographical portraits of the artists, who included Charles Alston, Vertis Hayes, and Georgette Seabrooke. Of course, the murals can also be viewed in their entirety here, and they are simply wonderful to behold. Description from The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007. http://scout.wisc.edu/

"... is the public side of a digitization project that will enable Web visitors to discover ever-larger portions of the Museum's collections. We currently offer more than 62,000 photographs of New York City, thousands of which have never been available for public viewing. And this is just a start - more photography will be added to the portal as imaging and cataloging work is completed, and we have just begun digitizing the prints and drawings collections. "

"The National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC) is a repository that facilitates research on arts and culture by acquiring data, particularly those funded by federal agencies and other organizations, and sharing those data with researchers, policymakers, people in the arts and culture field, and the general public. "

The NGA site provides access to the wide variety of resources to be found at the Gallery. Searching of the collection is available by artist, title, subject, etc. Provides access to many online images of the collection.

" Explore 881,711 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.

This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more."

Provided by the Webexhibits Project this exhibit includes "most important pigments used through the early 20th century."

Get background information on and see samples of Native American art.

"Tate is a family of galleries and operates on four sites in different parts of Britain." The Tate Collection pages provide access to online views and information about the Tate's collections of British Art and international modern art. The collection can be searched or browsed. It also includes access to a glossary of terms used in the collection pages. The Tate Learni Online pages provide access to interactive pages and resources designed for adults and children. It also provides resources for teachers. The Tate Research section provides information on the available research services and resources.

"The letters' authors are all noted; most are written by Vincent van Gogh and Theo van Gogh. Most translations into English [are] by Vincent's sister Johanna van Gogh-Bonger. Additional translations by Robert Harrison, and others." Letters are searchable or can be browsed by topic.

"The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art was founded in 1842 by Daniel Wadsworth, one of the first major American art patrons. The museum’s collections of nearly 50,000 works of art span 5,000 years and feature the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world-renowned baroque and surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; modernist masterpieces; the Serge Lifar collection of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes; the George A. Gay collection of prints; the Wallace Nutting collection of American colonial furniture and decorative arts; the Samuel Colt firearms collection; costumes and textiles; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art."