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Artists & Architects Resources

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AskART

http://www.askart.com/

AskART.com is the world's most comprehensive database about North American artists... On the 'Profile Page' for each of our 24,000 artists, we give as much general information as we have been able to find in the last 17 years: Dates, states, methods, biographies, subjects for which best known, a decade by decade breakdown of 20th century literature in which they are referenced, and total number of auction lots sold and unsold of their works." Also find out dealers who are affiliated with each artist, museums where their works are held, and, for some artists, image galleries of their works. Contact information is provided for the dealers and museums.

Author: AskART.com (info@askart.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: American; United States

Beautiful Birds

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/

"'Beautiful Birds' traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques - from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography - during that period. The exhibition includes books from Cornell Library's Hill Ornithology Collection and art works on loan from the personal collection of benefactors Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill." The site features an online exhibit and timeline, along with biographies of the artists. A bibliography and a guide to Cornell's ornithological collections are also included.

Author: Cornell University Library - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (jfc13@cornell.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Graphic Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Science & Technology--Life Sciences--Zoology--Birds

Keywords: ornithology; birds

Digital Archive of American Architecture

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/contents.html

Extensive site providing timelines and chronologies of American architecture from the 17th century onward. Includes images of buildings, biographies of architects, lists of exemplary buildings and types, and a visual glossary of styles.

Author: Jeffery Howe

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Architecture

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: Building; History; American; Style; Typology; Churches; Skyscrapers

Expressionism and its Exponents

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Kevin_Christian/artrefk.htm

This web site contains brief essays on the expressionist movement and the artists associated with it. It includes an image archive of their work, and biographies of many prominent artists.

Author: Kevin Christian (kevin_chrisian@csi.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: Fauvism; Klee; Kandinsky; Bauhaus; Klimt; Matisse; Nolde

Great Buildings Collection

http://www.greatbuildings.com/

"The Great Buildings Collection is a gateway to architecture from around the world and across history. The Great Buildings Online documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, plus commentaries, bibliographies, and web links, for famous designers and structures of all kinds." The site is searchable by building or architect or browsable by building, architect, place, or architectural type.

Author: Artifice, Inc. (editor@architectureweek.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Architecture

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: buildings; architects

Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist

http://www.mos.org/leonardo/

Biographical information about Leonardo da Vinci. Includes lessons for teachers. There are also video and audio pieces available using the Quicktime plug-in.

Author: Museum of Science, Boston

Subjects:

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Reference--Biographies--Scientists & Inventors

Keywords: da Vinci; Leonardo; biography

Modern Masterworks

http://hyperion.advanced.org/17142/home.shtml

"Modern Masterworks was developed to give people the knowledge and insight, so that they can more fully appreciate the art of the 20th century." The site does this by explaining the art movements of the twentieth century, providing profiles of major artists that cover their childhood and personality in addition to their work as an artist, letting visitors explore a virtual art gallery of paintings and sculptures, and giving visitors a chance to participate in a poll or ask modern art questions.

Author: David Dowling and Michael Galduroz (DaveyD@worldnet.att.net)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: artists; twentieth century; 20th century; paintings; sculptures

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)

http://www.nmwa.org/

"The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. In the pages that follow you will discover a wealth of information about the museum, selected artists, our collection, and many services. You may choose to examine images of works from our permanent collection, or take a tour of the museum with Founder Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Artist profiles feature the lives of selected women artists and corresponding bibliographies lead you to new sources of information."

Author: NMWA (NMWAmem@aol.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Paintings; Sculpture; Photography

Sculptor.org

http://www.sculptor.org/

"A Comprehensive Resource for Sculptors." This website has links to everything about sculptors and for sculptors, both beginning and advanced, as well as resources for research about sculpture.

Author: Richard Collins (sculptor@sculptor.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts--Sculpture

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: sculptor; stone carving; carving; quarries

the-artists.org

http://www.the-artists.org/

the-artists.org features an "extended database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists. The masters of the past hundred years are represented with their portrait, dates and places of birth and death, with links to webresources to find anything you want to know about them, with images of their work, comprehensive biographies and articles, and if it exists, the artist's personal website."

Author:

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: visual art; artists; twentieth century art; biography

The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/

"A database of biographical and bibliographical information on artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants. The ULAN currently contains some 200,000 names representing approximately 100,000 individual artists (or "creators," including performance artists, decorative artists, etc.) and architects, cumulated from nine participating Getty documentation projects. The scope of the data directly reflects the type of work done by the documentationprojects of the ULAN's contributors. Thus, chronological coverage ranges from ancient to contemporary, although post-medieval artists and architects predominate. Geographic coverage is global, with a preponderance of Western European and American names." Users can browse the world hierarchically, or use the search function. Many (though not all) entries have bibliographies of biographical articles.

Author: The Getty Research Institute (griweb@getty.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: Bibliography

The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/

"The site currently contains information about all of Van Gogh's paintings." It has "grown to more than 2,330 pages and 2,345 graphics." Besides viewing the paintings online, you can download databases listing the paintings, Van Gogh stamps, or Van Gogh's Correspondence for free. There's also a biography and chronology of Van Gogh's life.

Author: David Brooks (brooksd@interlog.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts--Painting

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Who's Who in American Art

http://www.artstar.com/bin/whoswho_home

Searchable and browsable version of the 22nd edition of Who's Who in American Art. "This volume profiles 11,724 contributors to the visual arts in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. These representatives from all segments of the art world include artists, administrators, historians, educators, lecturers, collectors, librarians, publishers, critics, consultants and dealers. The biographies are searchable by category or keyword, making this an invaluable tool for anyone needing to research contemporary contributers to North America's art world."

Author: Marquis Publications (info@artstar.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: north american art; 20th century artists

Women Artists in History

http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html

Index of women artists from the Renaissance to today, whenever possible examples of artworks are illustrated. Also has links to other sites with information about women artists.

Author: Wendy Murdock and Carrie Carolin (wendy@wendy.com)

Subjects:

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

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