The Artists Bluebook: http://www.askart.com This site claims to be the most comprehensive database dedicated to American Artists. Images and information on books, articles, museum holdings, auction records, graphical sales analyses, and more, are dedicated to each of the 25,000 artists spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries. The images are included for commercial purposes. They are useful for identifying artists' works, but are only of fair quality.

Art History

Art History http://www.wadsworth.com/art_d/links/art_link01.html. Harcourt Brace Publisher’s art resources on the web. This is a comprehensive listing of art resources, organized by era. Major topics are: Ancient World, Middle Ages The World Beyond Europe, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, and the Modern World.

Art History Research Center: http://art-history.concordia.ca/AHRC/ Established in 1995, the AHRC is a comprehensive source for art historical research on the Internet. It provides links to search engines, newsgroups, library catalogues and bookstores, article indexes, universities with art-history curricula, and information on citing sources.

Art History Resources: http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html Maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College, VA, this comprehensive site links to art information, both Western and Non-Western. Some categories include: art from Prehistoric, Ancient, Baroque, Renaissance, to the 20^th century. There are also links to research resources, museums and galleries, prints, and photographs on the Web.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History This site is indexed by subject, special topic, and artist. It also contains useful links, such as the Cloisters, Arms and Armor, Islamic Art and a bibliography organized by topic.

Art Images

Artcyclopedia: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/ In an attempt to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet, Artcyclopedia provides a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. As of March 2000, the site links to 700 leading arts sites and offers more than 24,000 links directly to approximately 80,000 works by 7000 artists.

Best Information on the Net-pictures: http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/Art/artimages.htm. This website is a must-see! It contains many links to images from nature, art, and science. This should be considered a premier website for anyone searching for art images on the web. In addition to the above, the site can be used to access image finders and all-purpose picture files. Also included is a “miscellaneous” category, which provides links to clip art, art crime, cartoon art, and Christian symbols sites.

Thinker Imagebase:  http://www.thinker.org/fam/thinker.html The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. There are more than 110,000 items in the collection.

E-journals

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is the world's first scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe.

General Art Resources

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery http://www.vggallery.com/
Created by David Brooks, this online catalog raisonee contains images of van Gogh's artworks, letter sketches, complete letters, references to film and other media, archives, and links. Paintings may be found by subject matter or chronologically. Images may be viewed in standard or thumbnail versions.

A Sampling of Museum Homepages

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: http://www.thinker.org/index.html. The site includes information on the museums in and around the city, upcoming exhibits, an image database, announcements, and a search engine.

The Hudson River Museum: http://www.hrm.org/ This homepage serves the museum, which is located in Yonkers, NY. The site includes information on exhibits, press releases, and funding.

The Louvre: http://www.louvre.fr. The Louvre homepage provides links to special collections, history of the Louvre, activities, a virtual tour, and other pertinent information. The page may be accessed in languages other than French.

The Museum of the City of New York is a private, not-for-profit educational corporation founded in 1923 for the purpose of presenting the history of New York City and its people as a significant learning resource. The Museum advances its mission through exhibitions, educational activities, and publications and by acquiring, preserving, and documenting original cultural materials which reflect New York City’s history. In fulfilling its mission, the Museum provides New Yorkers and visitors an understanding of the individual and shared heritages that have traditionally characterized New York City and the sense of time, place, and self that is essential for the well being of all communities.

National Gallery of Art Homepage: http://www.nga.gov/collection/ “The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. Search the collection by specific artist, title, or a combination of criteria. Tour the collection by medium and school, or choose a Gallery Guide in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish (PDF format) for your visit. In-depth studies focus on artists and works of art.” (source: National Gallery of Art homepage.) The site provides data on more than 100,000 objects and works of art.

National Museum of American Art Home Page: http://www.nmaa.si.edu/ This is the Smithsonian Art Museum home page. It provides information on the museum’s present and future special exhibits and collections. Their 1001 days and nights of American Art is an online calendar in which each day has a representative box containing either information on art openings on that day or images taken from various exhibits.

National Museum of Women in the Arts (http://www.nmwa.org) to the art resources page. The site includes information on collections, exhibitions, programs, publications, and a library/research center, which, in turn, contains links to Clara: The Database of Women Artists, archives on women artists, special collections, artists books, and archives.
 

Virtual Museums

Virtual Tours: http://www.virtualfreesites.com/museums.html These sites present over 300 Museums, Exhibits, Points of Special Interest and Real-Time multimedia guided tours on the Web. Many of the sites offer text and pictures, while others, in addition, transmit sound and an occasional movie.

WWW Virtual Library: http://vlmp.museophile.com/. The Virtual Library Museums Pages is a distributed directory of online museums around the world.

Virtual Museums around the U.S.: http://www.icom.org/vlmp/usa.html Museums in the USA. This site provides access to the most developed online network of museum information in the world. Museum information is searchable by name, type, state, or keyword. In addition, the site includes an enormous alphabetic list of all virtual museums in the United States.