Miller Library LibGuides: Design Research Sources (Drama Department): Fine Art

Art & Architecture websites

Museum Websites

Art Institute of Chicago

Baltimore Museum of Art

Barnes Foundation

Guggenheim Museums

Louvre Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

MFA Boston

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Smithsonian Institution

Whitney Museum

Browsing

Browse with your hands!

Pull random books off the shelves and leaf through them

Check out the books on either side of the one which you were looking for originally

Help build your visual vocabulary and create opportunities for serendipity

Books in the main collection

Browse the following call number ranges:

Visual Arts (N1-N9211)
Sculpture (NB)
Drawing. Design. Illustration (NC)
Painting (ND)
Print Media (NE)
Decorative Arts (NK)
Arts in General (NX)
Photography (TR)
Architecture, NA

Browse the Oversize (O/S) collection:

O/S AE 25.L365 vol.4 - O/S-O/S Z 733.P588 P53 1993

Art Databases

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images. Registration (valid for 120 days) is required to save/download images.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Offers access to Grove Art Online, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies.