Books

Books and exhibition catalogs located in the Lee Library are indexed in the Library Catalog. You can search by artist's name, artistic style, time period and country, or keywords. According to the Library of Congress Subject Headings, art books are generally cataloged by:

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medium. ex: painting, sculpture, drawing
nationality. ex: art, american; painting, american--19th century
genre. ex: landscape painting; portrait painting
time period. ex: art, modern--20th century
style. ex: Impressionism (art) -- United States

Exhibition Catalogs are cataloged by artist, subject, and museum or gallery. Use the phrase "... and exhibitions" in the subject field to find exhibition catalogs on a topic or artist. (ex: cassatt and exhibitions)

Museum Catalogs are cataloged by the name of the museum.

If you don't find enough books on your topic in the Library Catalog, search also in catalogs of other libraries. RLIN (Eureka) and WORLDCAT are two comprehensive databases of materials held by other research libraries. You can order books from other libraries online, through Interlibrary Loan Services.It only takes a few days ...