Paintings and Artists

Locating Reproductions of Paintings

• Image Databases

  • ARTStor
    A digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.    
  • CAMIO 
    Offers art images that are rights-cleared for educational use. There are about 95,000 art images-photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture-plus audio, video and mixed media.

• Searching for Images within Databases

  • Academic Search Complete 
    Multidisciplinary database indexing magazine and journal articles. Use Advanced Search and Limit results to images such as illustration, black and white photograph, or color photograph

• Image Search Engines

  • Google Images 
  • Bing Images            

•  Locating reproductions of paintings within books

  • World Painting Index
    Ellis Library Ready Reference ND45 .H38  [map]
  • Look up artist's name in MERLIN using Subject Search (eg. Rockwell Norman)    

Locating Information on Artists

• Articles

  • Art Full Text 
  • International Bibliography of Art 

• Books

  • Dictionary of Art
    Ellis Library Reference N31 .D5 1996 (34 volumes)  [map]
  • Encyclopedia of World Art
    Ellis Library Reference N31 .E533 (17 volumes)  [map]
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library 
  • MERLIN
    Use Subject search (eg. Warhol Andy)
  • Oxford Reference Online Premium