Art Museum Resources

**Selected Virtual Museums, Virtual Galleries, and Individual Artists**
WWW Virtual Library: Museum Page a distributed directory of on-line museums Artchive.com Allows searching by artist, movement, etc. ArtGuide: The Art Lovers' Guide to Britain & Ireland contains information concerning more than 1,900 named artists, 650 museums, and 4,500 individual or comprehensive exhibition listings Art Institute of Chicago Cellblock Visions "a lively collection of inmate artwork,...Phyllis Kornfeld, creator of the site has been conducting art classes in prisons for 17 years . . . The site is attractively designed, easy to navigate, and its good quality images load quickly." Chicano and Chicana Space Arizona State University Australian Cultural Heritage Collections Online Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco These museums have produced a searchable catalogue of its collections entitled The Thinker Imagebase. This art database contains listings of paintings, drawings, etchings, porcelain, sculpture, silver, glass, furniture, textiles and more. According to the producers "the Imagebase now contains more than half of [the] collections." First Nations Art (Canada) A project of the faculty and students in the Dept. of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal. A straightforward introduction to First Nations contemporary artists. The Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK)&nbps; masterpieces of painting from the 14th Century to the present; drawings and prints, sculpture, furniture, armour, pottery and glass, and so on; more than 117,000 images; searching is somewhat awkward but adequate. Getty Museum The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center one of 21 copies of the complete Gutenberg Bible, its digitization began in 2002 with the intention of offering the public cover-to-cover access to a unique copy; the result more than 1000 scanned pages of images; related sites include The British Library's Gutenberg Bible and for a single all-purpose link there is Gutenberg Digital which features the Goettinger copy of the text, and adds a significant amount of contextual information on the Bibles. Himalayan Art Resources contains more than 20,000 images Hay in Art Perhaps surprisingly, a great deal happens around hay; this intriguing site "gathers hay" as it appears in various artistic endeavors, ranging from paintings to poetry Hypnerotomachia Poliphili HP was a 467-page book, published in Venice by Aldus Manutius in 1499; with only 2 dozen copies in existence it is a rare and expensive book. It was the first illustrated architectural book of the Italian Renaissance, with 172 woodcuts of varying shapes and sizes, many of ruins, landscapes, garden designs, and reconstructions of classical architecture. This is a complex book whose author used what one reviewer described as a hybrid invented language, with a dreamlike atmosphere. MIT hosts the site and offers free access to the 1499 edition. [FYI: the best modern translation of HP is Hypnerotomachia Poliphilli: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Joscelyn Goodwin published in 1999.] While navigation is straightforward, the web site of necessity must reflect the many levels on which this text can be explored. Kiowa Drawings Smithsonian Los Angeles County Museum of Art Exhibits Online and Collections Online one of the largest and most ambitious of the virtual museums; provides more than 70,000 digitized images. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Millais Gallery Southhampton Institute; a small gallery emphasizing contemporary British art, select Past Exhibitions for access to their electronic exhibits MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Art--the collection National Museum of American Illustration covers the period from about 1880 to 1950; along with coverage of Wyeth, Gibson, and Rockwell, there is comprehensive coverage of other illustrators of the period National Museum of Women in the Arts National Portrait Gallery UK Native American Artists: ArtNavAm on-line gallery exhibit The Oriental Institute University of Chicago Publisher's Bindings Online: 1815-1930: The Art of Books University of Alabama and University of Wisconsin-Madison Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 part of the American Memory Project from the Smithsonian, more than 181 recorded interviews and nearly 400 photographs Seattle Art Museum: Discovering Buddhist Art excellent site; some of the best areas require that Flash Player be active Smithsonian American Art Museum Tate Gallery Vatican Museums Offers an easy and attractive access to collections through informative texts and thoughtfully chosen coordinated images. Victoria and Albert Museum the largest museum of decorative arts in the world; has an image database of more than 43,000 images Wadsworth Athenaeum America's oldest public art museum Web Exhibits.org contains several interesting and well-done exhibits including Causes of Color, Color Vision & Art, and Pigments Through the Ages The Web Gallery of Art The Web Gallery of Art makes easily available digital reproductions of 19,300 European paintings and sculpture (1150-1800), and a few drawings, some of them from relatively obscure sources and including fairly obscure artists. Samples are given rather than comprehensive treatment. The WebMuseum: Louvre. The first and in many respects still the best virtual museum. Aubrey Beardsley and Art of Aubrey Beardsley William Blake Archive Bellini click on the icons at the top to begin the different sections of the exhibit Paul Cezanne Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky ARTcyclopedia Angelica Kaufmann ARTcyclopedia On-line Picasso Project: Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) Foundation site funded by the artist's estate; Steinberg worked for The New Yorker for more than 50 years. The Vincent van Gogh Gallery Site endorsed by the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam The Essential Vermeer a wide range of information; offers a free subscription to online Essential Vermeer Newsletter Pre-Raphaelite Art Loggia: Exploring the Arts and Humanities Pre-Raphelites Artchive.com Victorian Art in Britain The Rossetti Archive: The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti supported by the Creative Commons and Firefox and Safari browsers. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1826-1882 Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836-1912 Book Illustration in England The Victorian Web: Literature, History & Culture in the Age of Victoria links to nearly 100 illustrators from both Britain and America. Ford Madox Brown, 1821-1893 Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-1898 William Holman Hunt, 1827-1910; at the Fitzwilliam Museum portrait of Cyril Benoni Holman Hunt William Holman Hunt: An Overview part of The Victorian Web Frederic Leighton, 1830-1896 John Everett Millais, 1829-1896 John Everett Millais: Victorian Art in Britain Henry Stacy Marks, 1829-1898 illustrations to Shakespeare Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898 and Gustave Moreau, Symbolist William Morris, 1834-1896 Joseph Noel Paton, 1821-1901 Shakespeare Illustrated Joseph Noel Paton's Contribution to Fairy Painting Edward J. Poynter, 1836-1919 Odilon Redon, 1840-1916, Symbolist Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904 Victorian Art in Britain William Bell Scott, 1811-1890 Victorian Web Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) Research Archive John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917