Course Guides: INQ: Theories of Color (2024): Web Sites (non-library)

Web Sites - New & Contemporary Artists

Museum & Gallery Collections

Museum and art gallery web sites offer high-quality images and reliable information. Searching for

is a great place to start. Other ways to find out where your artist has exhibited include:

Check the resume or CV on their web site;
Search the art journals and magazines, or free online sources, for news or reviews about exhibits;

and then look up the museum or gallery, to see whether they have more information.

Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum)
With art, artist biographies, thematic essays and slide shows, the TOAH is a wonderful research tool.
MOMA
MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has a website full of images, artist bios, related readings, and art term definitions (from the Grove Art Online encyclopedia)
Archives of American Art (Smithsonian)
Would you like to talk to Lee Krasner or Judy Chicago? Check out the hundreds of oral history interviews, thousand of letters and other digitized records in these archives.
Feminist Art Base (Brooklyn Museum)
This database explores the world of feminist art from the 1960s to the present.
Louvre
Search the Louvre, as well as databases for French art in French and British museums.