ARTH 961 - American Art and Memory
FAL web page: www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/
| Search strategies: | monument, art, painting, sculpture, memorial
exhibition, centennial, popular, politics, culture Nineteenth, American Revolution, Civil War, Confederacy |
| Keyword american art and exhibition and nineteenth
Subject art, American - Exhibitions |
Databases
Art Museum Image Gallery
username: AYW51
password: UNVA213971
BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) covers European and American art from late antiquity (ca. 300 AD) to the present and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals.
| Sample Search: | KEYWORD painting? | AND KEYWORD civil war
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Art Index indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Index indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
| Keyword | monument and american and nineteenth |
Smithsonian Institution Archives and Inventories includes the Art Inventories which provide information on over 335,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide. Information is compiled from a variety of sources, including published catalogues, collection checklists, reports from collectors, journals and magazines, and preservation inventories.
Choose Smithsonian American Art Museum Research Databases
Choose Art Inventories
| Artist | washington, william |
America History and Life covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present and has almost 400,000 citations from 2,000 key English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
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subject time period |
memorial
american revolution 1800H (use the browse list) |
HarpWeek covers the 56 years of Harper’s Weekly and provides a continuous record of what happened on a weekly basis from 1857 through 1912. The first segment includes the Civil War Era: 1857-1865. The next two cover Reconstruction: 1866-1871 and 1872-1877. The last six encompass the Gilded Age: 1878-1912.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Online can find full text of articles from the New York Times (1851-1999), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1995), and the Washington Post (1877-1987).
American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 can find articles from 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing in America between 1740 and 1900.
Worldcat includes over 30 million catalog records and holdings from over 12,000 libraries worldwide, including UVA. Materials in all formats.
Web Sites
Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://www.nmaa.si.edu/
Library of Congress: American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/
Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
Making of America
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Print Resources
Index to 19th Century Periodicals, 7 vols. (FA-REF N6510.S35 1999)
Annual and Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989 (FA-REF N6512.A638 1991)
Exhibition Record of the National Academy of Design, 1861-1900, 2 vols.(FA-REF N6510.N38)
The Boston Art Club Record 1873-1909 (FA-REF N6510.C43 1991)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 3 vols. (FA-REF N6505.A64 1988)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, 3 vols. (FA-REF N6536.W56 1999)
The National Museum of American Art's Index to American Art Exhibition Catalogues: From the Beginning through the 1876, 6 vols. (FA-REF N6507 .Y363 1986)
Contact the Librarian: Lucie Stylianopoulos | 924.6604 | lws4n@virginia.edu
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