OC Libraries

"A part of the Smithsonian Institution, the Archives of American Art is a huge collection of over 16 million primary source materials consisting of diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, films, audio recordings, video recordings, and many more artifacts documenting American culture for the past 200-plus years." Choice

Gives you the choice of information about the school or taking a tour of the museum. Information on artists and artwork provided

"The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) and the Walker Art Center have created ArtsConnectEd, which provides a variety of free resources related to the visual arts. ArtsConnectEd provides over 100,000 resources, including works of art, audio, video, texts, and an assortment of interactive tools." Choice

"With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, we represent international museums, galleries and artists by providing a central source of fine art for image users." This is a subscription database accessed through the OC Library website. Off-campus access requires your student ID and last name.

"Art Project applies Google's Street View technology to the experience of visiting a museum. Google has partnered with 17 of the world's top museums, including the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy; the National Gallery in London; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Visitors may navigate the site by selecting a particular museum from the home page. They can then virtually explore by walking through the galleries and selecting particular artworks to view more closely." Choice

View the collection with information on each individual work. You may also get to view their library catalog, however it is a non-circulating collection and you would need a trip to New York City to look at the books.

"A database of images and didactic text gives access to a listing of 2,300 paintings in the collection, ranging from the 13th through the early 20th century. Searching is alphabetical by the artist's name. Each entry provides a short text discussing the work, placement within the floor plan, a substantial biography of the artist, pertinent facts about the work, and cross-references." Choice

You may search by specific artist, title or combination of criteria in their collection. You may “Tour the Collection” by medium and school, which also provides information about the artist and the artwork.

"The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO) has compiled a comprehensive and growing index of American art Web resources over the past decade. The list focuses on sites related to American art before 1945. Available through the Web site of the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA), this resource is accessible through the table of contents available from the directory's main page." Choice

An exhibition exploring the perception of art and the identity of the artist through history and in contemporary society. Most of the objects in this exhibition were gathered together, researched and largely written about by students in the seminar "Art and Artists" (ARTH 201) conducted in the Fall semester, 1997, by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.