These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, statistics, and more. If you are not sure of your topic, start with Academic Search Complete.
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Academic Search Complete
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.
- Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.
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American Museum of Photography
- Online exhibits and information on photography
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Art Images for College Teaching
- Art images organized by time period and geographical location.
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Artchive
- Thousands of images arranged by artist
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Art Cyclopedia
- Online art encyclopedia
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ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
- Online dictionary of art terms
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Digital Archive of American Architecture
- Over 900 images of american architecture with explanatory material.
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Getty Information Institute Searchable Databases
- Search the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, International
Repertory of the Literature of Art, Provenance Sale Catalog Database,
and/or Provenance Sale Contents Database
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Greatest Painters on the Web
- For about 30 well-known artists, links to biographical information and images.
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Image Finder
- Search engine linked to numerous image collections
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JSTOR
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
- A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
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National Gallery of Art
- Search the collection by artist, title, school, medium, style, and other criteria. " Basic information is available on every work of art in the collection: artist, title, dimensions, medium, and accession number. In addition, particular attention has been devoted to the development of extended scholarly records on paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and many of its old master and modern drawings: provenance, exhibition history, literature, attribution and title changes, and biography. "
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National Gallery of Art Tour: Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest
- Images and descriptions of Spanish folk art
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Project Muse
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
- Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
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Vincent Van Gogh Information Gallery
- Site contains all his sketches, paintings, watercolors, biographical information, and more.
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WorldWide Arts Resources
- Searchable databases of artists, museums, galleries, publications, and more.
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