Guide to Research Online

Looking For Images By Particular Artists

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If you know the name of the artist and are looking for images of his or her work, we recommend using the following sites:

• The Artcyclopedia is an excellent database site maintained by John Malyon, which allows to you to search by the artist's name or search through lists of artists arranged alphabetically. Or you can search by:

  Movement - e.g., Impressionism Typical
  medium - e.g., Photographers Typical
  subject matter - e.g., Landscapes
  Nationality - e.g., African

  The Artcyclopedia lists links to Web sites where information on each artist can be found. Often, these sites include:

• Carol Gerten's Fine Art - select a mirror site nearest you. Search by the artist's name, or by nationality or time frame. Artists who have more than five scanned images are listed as "featured artists" and have their own page. Beware that some images are cropped.

• Web Gallery of Art , created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx. The "Image Viewer" allows you to adjust the size of the image. It provides a:

  -Quick Index - alpha index
  -Artist Index - more detailed index
  -General Search by Artist, Timeline, School (Nationality), Form (Media), Type (Subject), Title, Text
  -Guided Tours with nine different tours

• The Artchive, maintained by Mark Harden, is an alphabetical list of artists. It gives access to high-quality images, some of which have also been organized by category (e.g., Women Artists).

• World Wide Art Resources - Artists Index - provides access to over 15,000 artists. Lists are also compiled by period such as impressionism, expressionism, surrealism, pop art, cubism, and minimalism.

• Great Buildings includes architecture from around the world and across history. It can be searched (www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/search.html) or browsed through links to alphabetical lists of:
  Buildings
  Architects
  Architectural Types
  Places