Guides: Art History: Search Deeper

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Search or browse for journals, magazines and newspapers in the Library collection.

Websites

WikiArt
Comprehensive site with extensive artists/works list of free Internet paintings for educational use. Varying sizes of each work available.
Google Arts & Culture
Amazing site which tours famous collections from around the world.
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"The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and 151 acclaimed art partners from across 40 countries. Using a combination of various Google technologies and expert information provided by our museum partners, we have created a unique online art experience. Users can explore a wide range of artworks at brushstroke level detail, take a virtual tour of a museum and even build their own collections to share. "
Art Images for College Teaching
"Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) began as a personal project dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational community."
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Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
An interactive journey through the development of art around the world, highlighted by pieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. "The Timeline comprises 300 timelines, 930 essays, close to 7,000 objects, and a robust index, and is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection."

Galleries and Museums - Canada

National Gallery of Canada
The website includes an excellent online source of images from the galleries collection and educational resources in the Cybermuse section.
Portrait Portal - Library and Archives Canada
The goal of the LAC portrait collection, the largest in Canada, is to document historical personalities important to Canada’s development. It includes work by Canadian and international artists. The portal features a selection of works from this collection.

Galleries and Museums

Louvre Museum
The most visited museum in the world, the Louvre houses more than 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
View highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's world-renowned collection. Subscribe to Artwork of the Day.
The National Gallery (London)
The National Gallery located in London, England, houses over 2,300 paintings dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries.
Tate Online
The website includes 65,000 online images from the Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St.Ives collections. Includes extensive resources for teaching and learning.
Victoria & Albert Museum Image Bank
"V&A Images is a high quality, versatile picture agency. Our ever-expanding image collection includes almost everything imaginable in the fine and decorative arts."
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Images are accompanied by articles and other background information to help contextualize the art.
Freer and Sckler Galleries
These galleries house the Smithsonian's unique collection of Asian art. All of the collection is available online and much of it, more then 40,000, can be downloaded.
The Getty Digital Collections
Digital Collections provide free access to a growing number of digitized items from the Research Library, Special Collections, Photo Archive, and Institutional Archives. These materials range from the 15th century to the present and include books, photographs, manuscripts, archives, and works on paper.
MOMA Museum of Modern Art
Every exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, 1929 to the present.