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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Archives of American Art
- Smithsonian Institution's collection of the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America
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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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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
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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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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)"
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WorldWide Arts Resources
- Searchable databases of artists, museums, galleries, publications, and more.
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