Art
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Free Web Sites
General Art Sites
Art History Resources on the Web
From Sweet Briar College.DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
"A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.""Our mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide tomuseum-quality fine art on the Internet."Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page
From the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.From the New York Public Library."Virtual museum and searchable database of Western (European) fine arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900), currently containing over 31.800 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and mobile services are provided.""Access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 65,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.""Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised items – books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.Our dedicated thematic collections on art, fashion, music, photography and World War I contain galleries, blogs and exhibitions to inform and inspire.""Examines contemporary life through design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation."Back to Top
Museum Sites
Smithsonian American Art Museum
From the Tate Gallery.Back to Top
Specific Topics and Artists
Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration
From the Smithsonian."Endorsed by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.""This collection focuses on comics created specifically for the web and supplements the Library of Congress’ extensive holdings in both comic books, graphic novels, and original comic art. Webcomics are an increasingly popular format utilized by contemporary creators in the field and often includes material by artists not available elsewhere. Webcomics selected for this collection include award-winning comics (Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards, Eagle Awards, and Shuster Awards) as well as webcomics that have significance in the field due to longevity, reputation, and subject matter. This collection includes work by artists and subjects not traditionally represented in mainstream comics, including women artists and characters, artists and characters of color, LGBTQ+ artists and characters, as well as subjects such as politics, health and human sexuality, and autobiography. The content of these websites is captured as it was originally produced and may include content that is not suitable for all ages." From the Library of Congress.
The Global Webcomics Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation) with Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The collection is curated by Karen Green (Columbia) and André G. Wenzel (Chicago). The Global Webcomics Web Archive aims to preserve selected webcomics and creator websites from all over the world in order to assure the continuing availability of these important, and potentially ephemeral, documents for use by researchers and scholars. This initiative intends to preserve webcomics and websites in a wide variety of styles, subjects and themes, in many different languages, created by a diverse group of artists. From the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.