American Art Research Guide


AMERICAN ART WEBSITES


  • Askart.com
    Comprehensive database of over 23,000 North American artists. Includes artists' profiles, image gallery, auction records, lists of books and articles about the artists, museums holding artists' works, and dealers for artists . Browse through categories such as: Notable Women Artists, Notable Modernists, Impressionists pre-1940, Hudson River School, etc.
  • American Memory: Photographs, Prints, & Drawings
    Historical Collections of the National Digital Library, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Collections include: Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865; Daguerreotypes, 1839-1864; Detroit Publishing Company's Turn-of-the-Century Photographs, 1880-1920; Great Depression to World War II Photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection, 1935-1945; and Panoramic Photographs, ca. 1851-1991.
  • Smithsonian Institution - Museums and Research Center
    Link to SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) Libraries' Catalog. Includes access to "Archives & Manuscripts" (Archives Center - National Museum of American History; Archives of American Art (SIRIS) ; Archives of American Gardens; Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives - National Museum of African Art; Human Studies Film Archives; National Anthropological Archives Smithsonian Institution Archives) The Archives of American Art contain over 12 million items such as letters, clippings, journals, video history interviews, photographs, etc. and is a great source for locating reprints of American sales catalogues published between 1785 and 1960.
    The archives also include filmed exhibition catalogues from the early 19th century to the 1960s. Special projects include: