The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Museum's curatorial, conservation, and education staff—the largest team of art experts anywhere in the world—research and write the Timeline, which is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects. First launched in 2000, the Timeline now extends from prehistory to the present day. The Timeline will continue to expand in scope and depth, and also reflect the most up–to–date scholarship.

National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov
The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present. Records on all of the more than 110,000 objects and images of more than 6,000 objects in the collection are available online. Search the entire collection by specific artist, title, or a combination of criteria.

Smithsonian American Art Museum http://americanart.si.edu/
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is America's first federal art collection, dedicated to the enjoyment and understanding of American art. The museum celebrates the extraordinary creativity of our country's artists, whose works are windows on the American experience.

The Broad Art Foundation http://www.broadartfoundation.org/home.html
The Broad Art Foundation operates as an educational and lending resource for contemporary art and is dedicated to building a collection that reflects the scope and diversity of the art of our time. The Broad family formed the Foundation after several decades of personal collecting, dedicated patronage and leadership of some of the nation's most prominent museums. As an integral component in the Foundation's programming, this website extends the Foundation's mandate to foster public appreciation of contemporary art to a worldwide audience of Internet users, making available information and selected images from its collection of over 700 works by provocative and important artists working today.

Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Guide Art on the Internet http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
The mission of Artcyclopedia is to be the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet. Artcyclopedia has compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. Artcyclopedia contains over over 2,100 art sites, and offers over 75,000 links to an estimated 180,000 by 8,200 renowned artists.

Contemporary Arts and Artists http://www.1001.org/20th/
The-artists.org website with its extended database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists is a portal for research on visual arts. The masters since 1900 are represented with their portrait, dates and places of birth -and death-, with links to webresources to find anything you want to know about them, with images of their work, comprehensive biographies and articles, and if it exists, the artist's personal website. This is a website for artlovers, artstudents, artists, arthistorians, large and small collectors, museum curators, artgallery owners and exhibition organisers.

Museum of Modern Art - Prints http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/prints_books/index.html
MoMA's holdings of more than 50,000 works dating from the 1880s to the present constitute the most comprehensive collection of modern prints and illustrated books in the world. Individual artists as well as art movements are found in both range and depth. Techniques represented range from traditional woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screenprints to newer processes such as digital printmaking. Among the unique strengths of the collection is the inclusion of numerous states of many important prints, demonstrating the artists' creative processes.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - ImageBase http://www.thinker.org/fam/about/imagebase/index.asp
The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor). The collections (110,000+ objects) belong to the people of the City and County of San Francicso. The ImageBase is an expression of the Museum's mission to provide meaningful public access to the collections and behave more like a resource and less like a repository.

The Printroom: Spencer Museum of Art http://www2.ku.edu/~sma/prints.html
The Max Kade - Erich H. Markel Department of Graphic Arts at the Spencer Museum of Art houses nearly 10,000 works of art on paper (prints, drawings, photographs, and artists' books). The core of our old master collection of prints was given by the Max Kade Foundation, whose president at the time of the gift was the late Erich H. Markel. The facility includes a room for the study of works of art on paper that can accommodate a class of about twenty students. We call this the Printroom. We would like to consider the electronic images that you will look at here as an extension of the Printroom, a place where you can come to look at and think about works of art on paper.

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Roger Myers, Reference and Instruction Librarian
Last Update: February 6, 2007