Visual Arts Related Databases & Directories
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Art Prizes Database
The Art Gallery Research Library has created an historical database of the entrants and winners of the following prizes:
It contains references to every exhibited work for each of these competitions.
ArtRightNow (subscription service)
From Discovery Media. With access to Ozbiogs - biographies of Australian artists and NATSIVAD - a database comprising biographical details relating to 5 500 traditional and urban Aboriginal artists around Australia.
Artserve
The ANU Art History Department publishes images of art and architecture from the mediterranean Basin.
AustArt
Indexes a range of Australian art, architecture, craft, film and design journals held by COFA Library. Includes references to articles, exhibition reviews and reproductions of works by Australian artists and overseas artists exhibiting in Australia. Available via the web as a free service to the community. Produced from 1987 to date.
Australasian Art Obituaries Index
This database from the National Gallery of Australia Research Library lists obituaries for Australasian artists and art professionals noted by the Research Library from 1990 to date. Information includes name, occupation, gender, date and place of birth [if known], date and place of death, bibliographic details of published obituaries received in the Research Library. Searching is possible on name, keyword, occupation, Australian state in which born or died, birth date and death date.
Australian Libraries Gateway to Image Collections
Directory of pictorial web sites and image collections from the Australian Libraries Gateway.
Australian Prints
Searchable database of prints from the National Gallery of Australia collection. Includes images of many of the prints in the database.
Australian War Memorial Collections SearchThe Memorial's collection databases cover objects in the collection. Not all of these items are on display in our galleries.
Bulletin of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery
Publication of a complete set of the Bulletin of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery. Provides a useful record of exhibitions, shows, events, staff changes and so on at the Gallery.
The Group
As complete a set of catalogues as exists of The Group. The Group was an informal association of artists in Christchurch, New Zealand, that existed between 1927 and 1977. Many of New Zealand's greatest artists from this period, such as Rita Angus and Colin McCahon, exhibited with The Group.
National Library of Australia Pictures Catalogue
This catalogue contains descriptions of paintings of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and three-dimensional objects held in the Pictures Collection of the National Library of Australia. Over 30,000 digital images of these works are available on this site.
Picman
The PICMAN catalogue contains records of the pictures, manuscripts, oral history and printed posters collections of the Mitchell Library, Sir William Dixson Library and Dixson Galleries.
PictureAustralia
PictureAustralia is a web-based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search in PictureAustralia, you are searching the collections of all the participating agencies. It consists of links to over 450,000 digitised images from Australia's leading cultural institutions including the Australian War Memorial, National Library of Australia, and the State Libraries of NSW, Tasmania and Victoria.
Visual Arts Net
Visual arts gateway developed by the National Association for the Visual Arts. Includes artists' galery, news and views and practical advice.
AHDS Visual Arts
Hosted by the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College. As part of the Arts & Humanities Data Service, provides a cross-collections search facility in adition to online subject catalogues.
Intute : Arts and Humanities
A collection of web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. There are over 21,000 Web resources listed here that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing.
ARTbibliographies Modern (subscription service)
Index to journal articles and exhibition catalogues on art. Covers contemporary and modern international and Australian art.Includes detailed abstracts.
Art and Culture Network
ArtandCulture.com is an gateway to contemporary arts. This website features thousands of artist biographies, and essays about art movements and themes.
Art Full Text (subscription service)
Index to articles, catalogues and books on all aspects of art and art history.Covers international and Australian art. Provides online access to selected full text articles.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 7,000 of the world's leading science and social sciences journals.
ArtsUK
Gateway to contemporary art in the UK.
Artmuseum.net
Links to online exhibitions of contemporary art. Participating museums and galleries include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery (Washington), the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) and the Andy Warhol Museum. Artmuseum.net is a not-for-profit project and is part of the Art and Culture Project.
ArtNet
US based art web directory.
Artchive
Web gallery of digital images of artworks for private non-profit use only.
Artsource
A collection of networked resources on Art and Architecture.
Artcyclopedia
Web gateway to 'museum-quality fine art on the Internet'.
Art History Resources on the Web
Art sites divided by period, country. Includes lists of artists, image finders, and museum links.
Bibliography of the History of Art (subscription service)
Abstracts and indexes books, journals, dissertations and conference proceedings on European and American Art from late antiquity to the present.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) (subscription service)
International index to more than 450 journals.Covers Australian and international art, craft, design and architecture material.Indexes journal articles, news items, conference papers, book reviews and illustrations.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (subscription service)
Online full text dictionary covering all aspects of the visual arts and art history worldwide. Includes links to images on art museum websites worldwide.
Internet for Art and Design
Internet for Performing Arts
UK- based guide to Internet resources in art and design for the UK university community.
Internet Public Library Online Books
Gateway to arts & humanities online texts from the Internet Public Library.
Pinakes
A "Subject Launchpad" to web resources in all disciplines. Hosted by Heriott-Watt University, Scotland.
Public Art Research Archive
Gateway to websites on public art in the UK. From the Sheffield Hallam University.
UCLA Art & Art History Web Directory
Directory of websites for art research from the University of California
Voice of the Shuttle Art & Art History Web Directory
Directory of websites for art research from Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.
WWAR - Worldwide Arts Resources
US-based directory of links to websites featuring artists, museums, galleries, classified ads, resume postings, arts chats, and arts forums.
Australian and New Zealand Databases & Directories
Art Prizes Database
The Art Gallery Research Library has created an historical database of the entrants and winners of the following prizes:
- Archibald Prize
- Wynne Prize
- Sir John Sulman Prize
- Dobell Prize for Drawing
- Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize
It contains references to every exhibited work for each of these competitions.
ArtRightNow (subscription service)
From Discovery Media. With access to Ozbiogs - biographies of Australian artists and NATSIVAD - a database comprising biographical details relating to 5 500 traditional and urban Aboriginal artists around Australia.
Artserve
The ANU Art History Department publishes images of art and architecture from the mediterranean Basin.
AustArt
Indexes a range of Australian art, architecture, craft, film and design journals held by COFA Library. Includes references to articles, exhibition reviews and reproductions of works by Australian artists and overseas artists exhibiting in Australia. Available via the web as a free service to the community. Produced from 1987 to date.
Australasian Art Obituaries Index
This database from the National Gallery of Australia Research Library lists obituaries for Australasian artists and art professionals noted by the Research Library from 1990 to date. Information includes name, occupation, gender, date and place of birth [if known], date and place of death, bibliographic details of published obituaries received in the Research Library. Searching is possible on name, keyword, occupation, Australian state in which born or died, birth date and death date.
Australian Libraries Gateway to Image Collections
Directory of pictorial web sites and image collections from the Australian Libraries Gateway.
Australian Prints
Searchable database of prints from the National Gallery of Australia collection. Includes images of many of the prints in the database.
Australian War Memorial Collections SearchThe Memorial's collection databases cover objects in the collection. Not all of these items are on display in our galleries.
Bulletin of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery
Publication of a complete set of the Bulletin of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery. Provides a useful record of exhibitions, shows, events, staff changes and so on at the Gallery.
The Group
As complete a set of catalogues as exists of The Group. The Group was an informal association of artists in Christchurch, New Zealand, that existed between 1927 and 1977. Many of New Zealand's greatest artists from this period, such as Rita Angus and Colin McCahon, exhibited with The Group.
National Library of Australia Pictures Catalogue
This catalogue contains descriptions of paintings of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and three-dimensional objects held in the Pictures Collection of the National Library of Australia. Over 30,000 digital images of these works are available on this site.
Picman
The PICMAN catalogue contains records of the pictures, manuscripts, oral history and printed posters collections of the Mitchell Library, Sir William Dixson Library and Dixson Galleries.
PictureAustralia
PictureAustralia is a web-based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search in PictureAustralia, you are searching the collections of all the participating agencies. It consists of links to over 450,000 digitised images from Australia's leading cultural institutions including the Australian War Memorial, National Library of Australia, and the State Libraries of NSW, Tasmania and Victoria.
Visual Arts Net
Visual arts gateway developed by the National Association for the Visual Arts. Includes artists' galery, news and views and practical advice.
International Databases & Directories
AHDS Visual Arts
Hosted by the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College. As part of the Arts & Humanities Data Service, provides a cross-collections search facility in adition to online subject catalogues.
Intute : Arts and Humanities
A collection of web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. There are over 21,000 Web resources listed here that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing.
ARTbibliographies Modern (subscription service)
Index to journal articles and exhibition catalogues on art. Covers contemporary and modern international and Australian art.Includes detailed abstracts.
Art and Culture Network
ArtandCulture.com is an gateway to contemporary arts. This website features thousands of artist biographies, and essays about art movements and themes.
Art Full Text (subscription service)
Index to articles, catalogues and books on all aspects of art and art history.Covers international and Australian art. Provides online access to selected full text articles.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 7,000 of the world's leading science and social sciences journals.
ArtsUK
Gateway to contemporary art in the UK.
Artmuseum.net
Links to online exhibitions of contemporary art. Participating museums and galleries include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery (Washington), the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) and the Andy Warhol Museum. Artmuseum.net is a not-for-profit project and is part of the Art and Culture Project.
ArtNet
US based art web directory.
Artchive
Web gallery of digital images of artworks for private non-profit use only.
Artsource
A collection of networked resources on Art and Architecture.
Artcyclopedia
Web gateway to 'museum-quality fine art on the Internet'.
Art History Resources on the Web
Art sites divided by period, country. Includes lists of artists, image finders, and museum links.
Bibliography of the History of Art (subscription service)
Abstracts and indexes books, journals, dissertations and conference proceedings on European and American Art from late antiquity to the present.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) (subscription service)
International index to more than 450 journals.Covers Australian and international art, craft, design and architecture material.Indexes journal articles, news items, conference papers, book reviews and illustrations.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (subscription service)
Online full text dictionary covering all aspects of the visual arts and art history worldwide. Includes links to images on art museum websites worldwide.
Internet for Art and Design
Internet for Performing Arts
UK- based guide to Internet resources in art and design for the UK university community.
Internet Public Library Online Books
Gateway to arts & humanities online texts from the Internet Public Library.
Pinakes
A "Subject Launchpad" to web resources in all disciplines. Hosted by Heriott-Watt University, Scotland.
Public Art Research Archive
Gateway to websites on public art in the UK. From the Sheffield Hallam University.
UCLA Art & Art History Web Directory
Directory of websites for art research from the University of California
Voice of the Shuttle Art & Art History Web Directory
Directory of websites for art research from Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.
WWAR - Worldwide Arts Resources
US-based directory of links to websites featuring artists, museums, galleries, classified ads, resume postings, arts chats, and arts forums.
