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ARTbibliographies Modern includes abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. Subjects covered include 20th century art history and criticism, design, photography (from 1839), architecture, and visual culture.

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.

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.

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.

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Grove Art Online provides instant full-text access to over 41,000 articles on the arts and cultures of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific. In addition, there are links to the tens of thousands of images.

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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Alternative Press Index, 1969-present, indexes alternative, radical and left newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Most are from the US, but some other countries are covered. The Alternative Press Index Archive extends coverage to 1969-1990.

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.

America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 is a searchable full text collection of US newspapers. For additional titles see Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers  and Historical Newspapers.  

ProQuest Historical Newspapers can find full text of articles from the New York Times (1851-2001), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1997), the Chicago Tribune (1890-1984), the Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) 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.

PAO: Periodicals Archive Online searches the full text of nearly 400 international humanities and social sciences journals published from 1770 to the 1990s. These journals with links to JSTOR and through Find@UVa to other collections are also indexed in Periodicals Index Online. PAO was formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index Full Text.

JStor searches the full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals in areas such as anthropology, asian studies, ecology, economics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, sociology, and statistics. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.

ARTstor Images of world art from all periods, including paintings, drawings, and prints plus architecture and design. Special collections include Asian and American art, Buddhist paintings and sculpture and historic photographs (women, Native American culture). Tips on using ArtStor.

Web Sites

Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm

The Charleston Museum
http://www.charlestonmuseum.org/topic.asp?id=1

Gibbes Museum of Art
http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/

Chicago Renaissance
http://www.chipublib.org/digital/chiren/

Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
http://www.metmuseum.org/

Paul R. Jones Collection
http://www.museums.udel.edu/jones/jones-pages/digital-jones.html

Maryland Historical Society
http://www.mdhs.org/

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)
Lewis, S. African American Art and Artists (FA-REF N6538 .N5L38 1994)
Bearden, R. and Henderson, H. A History of African American Artists (FA-REF N6538 .N5B38 1993)
St. James Guide to Black Artists (FA-REF N40 .S78 1997)
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)

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