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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.
Academic Search Complete      Remote Access
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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.

American Museum of Photography
Online exhibits and information on photography

Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution's collection of the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America

Art Images for College Teaching
Art images organized by time period and geographical location.

Artchive
Thousands of images arranged by artist

Art Cyclopedia
Online art encyclopedia

ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
Online dictionary of art terms

Digital Archive of American Architecture
Over 900 images of american architecture with explanatory material.

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

Google Scholar      Remote Access
Access to some full text restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
Search for scholarly works from a wide variety of disciplines

JSTOR      Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text

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. "

National Gallery of Art Tour: Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest
Images and descriptions of Spanish folk art

Project Muse      Remote Access
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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.

Vincent Van Gogh Information Gallery
Site contains all his sketches, paintings, watercolors, biographical information, and more.

Web Gallery of Art
"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850)"

WorldWide Arts Resources
Searchable databases of artists, museums, galleries, publications, and more.



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