Welcome to the Art & Art History Subject Guide.
Audience: CUW undergraduate & graduate students in Art & Art History courses.
Help Available: If you need help finding resources, please contact librarians with Ask a Librarian or on the Library Tab in the Portal (phone, email, chat)
How to Use: Click a tab to learn more about a topic.
Basics
You can search for journal articles in Primo and library databases
For General Instructions: Finding Journal Articles
Art Databases by Area
- Art & Art History
- Graphic Design & Digital Media
- Art Education, See K-12 Teaching & Curriculum
You can search for journal articles in Primo and library databases (see databases tab).
For General Instructions: Finding Journal Articles
Instructions To find a specific article
Journal Titles
The following links open databases where you can search for articles within the journal.
Print Books
You can search for books and ebooks in Primo.
General Directions: Finding Books Guide
Library of Congress Call Numbers
| Call Number | Subject |
|---|---|
| N | Visual Arts |
| NB | Sculpture |
| NC | Drawing & Design |
| Painting | Doe |
| NK | Decorative Arts |
Ebooks
Ebook Central EBSCO eBooksReference books
| Title | Location |
|---|---|
| Oxford Companion to Western Art | REF N33 .O923 2001 |
| Encyclopedia of Artists | REF N31 .E53 2000 |
| A Biographical Dictionary of Artists | REF N40 .B53 1995 |
| International Dictionary of Art and Artists | Ebook |
| Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art | N8510 .G76 2008 |
| Encyclopedia of Creativity | Ebook |
Articles/Information
- Getty Research Portal (Art history texts)
- IRIS Consortium (Italian Art History)
- The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- Khan Academy’s Smarthistory (Introduction to Art History textbook)
- Publication Formats In Art History (Rice U)
Free Art Images
- Art Discovery Group Catalogue (European Art)
- Google Art Project (images organized by artist or museum collection)
- ArtSTOR Public Collections
- Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
- Web Gallery of Art (European painting and sculpture 12th to mid-19th centuries)
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Europeana Art Database
- Internet Archive (images from websites)
- Andy Warhol Photography Archives (New York City arts, culture & celebrities 1976-87)