Getting Started Guide: Art & Art History: Internet Sources

"Our vast holdings are a vital resource to anyone interested in American culture over the past 200 years and consist of more than 20 million letters, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, financial records, photographs, films, and audiovisual recordings of artists, dealers, collectors, critics, scholars, museums, galleries, associations, and other art world figures. The Archives also houses the largest collection of oral histories anywhere on the subject 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.

"Getty is a leading global arts organization committed to exhibiting, conserving, and understanding the world’s artistic and cultural heritage."

During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs included the creation of a national work program called the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It included a special program called the Federal Art Project, a work relief program specifically for artists. In 1936, the murals at Harlem Hospital were the first WPA commission in the country given to African American artists. In celebration of African-American themes, beauty, and achievement, these murals were quite unique, and created controversy for their time when the original Hospital Superintendent rejected the design sketches for their “Negro subject matter.” Protests from the Harlem Artists Guild and the Artists Union reached Mayor LaGuardia and President Roosevelt and the murals were painted. Now, four of the five murals have been restored and are the centerpiece of Harlem Hospital’s renovation and revitalization.

"... 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 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.

"The National Museum of Women in the Arts brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by teaching the public about their accomplishments." Selected collections and exhibition materials may be viewed online.

"The Public Art Archive™ (PAA) is a free, continually growing, online and mobile database of completed public artworks throughout the U.S. and abroad. "

"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."

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

Find various materials including articles and interview related to architecture.

"Over the past decade, Art21 has established itself as the preeminent chronicler of contemporary art and artists through its Peabody Award-winning biennial television series, Art in the Twenty-First Century. The nonprofit organization has used the power of digital media to introduce millions of people of all ages to contemporary art and artists and has created a new paradigm for teaching and learning about the creative process."

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.

"The Getty Research Portal™ is a free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and other researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. "

'The Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), the Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ® (TGN). the Cultural Objects Name Authority ® (CONA), and the Iconography Authority ™ (IA) are structured resources that can be used to improve access to information about art, architecture, and other material culture. The Vocabularies are not simply 'value vocabularies,' but knowledge bases. Through rich metadata and links, the Getty Vocabularies provide powerful conduits for knowledge creation, complex research, and discovery for digital art history and related disciplines.'

"The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational and research organization dedicated to integrity in the visual arts. IFAR offers impartial and authoritative information on authenticity, ownership, theft, and other artistic, legal, and ethical issues concerning art objects. IFAR serves as a bridge between the public, and the scholarly and commercial art communities. We publish the award-winning quarterly IFAR Journal; organize conferences, panels, and lectures; offer a unique Art Authentication Research Service and provenance research services; provide comprehensive Web-based resources, such as the Catalogue Raisonné Database, the Art Law & Cultural Property Database and the Provenance Guide; and serve as an information resource. We invite all people interested in the visual arts to join our organization and help support our activities."

Includes articles and videos covering various aspects of Art History.

"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. "

"Smarthistory is the most visited art history resource in the world. We are the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, and we support AP art history and A-level curriculum. Smarthistory supports students, instructors, and lifelong learners everywhere."