Online Catalogs at Other Art-Related Libraries
(You can also visit the International Directory of Art Libraries at Vassar College.)
Charlotte Whitney Allen Library (Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY)
"The Charlotte Whitney Allen Library is a research center whose purpose is to support Gallery programs and functions by maintaining and providing access to research collections relating to art,art history and museum studies. The Library's collections include: art and architectural history; techniques of painting and printmaking; museum management and exhibition technique; auction cataloguesand indexes to auction sales; over 60 current and extensive historical art periodicals; and information files on Rochester artists and artists in the Gallery's collection." [qtd. from http://www.rochester.edu/MAG/artlib.htm]
Amon Carter Museum Library and Archives
"The Amon Carter Museum library functions as the research facility of the museum and has been an integral part of the museum's program since it opened in 1961. The library's noncirculating collectionis reflective of the museum's art collection; as such, it focuses on American art and photography from the early nineteenth century to the present. Broader focuses include the cultural, social, andintellectual history of the same period. The collection is especially rich in materials related to the American West. Collection highlights include the finest examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-centuryillustrated books and western Americana, nineteenth-century newspapers on microfilm, and an extensive vertical file collection offering a range of material on artists (over 7,500 names), museums, commercialgalleries, and subjects." [qtd. from http://www.cartermuseum.org/library_set.html]
Artexte Information Centre, Montreal"Established in 1980 by art historian Francine Périnet and artists Angela Grauerholz and Anne Ramsden, Artexte Information Centre began as a bookstore specializing in Canadian and Internationalcontemporary art. The organization responded to an essential need in Quebec and Canada for up to date, accurate information on contemporary visual art. [. . .] In the Fall of 2000, Artexte put itsBibliographic Database at the Internet user’s disposal, along with a first draft of the Public Art Database, which will document the whole of public art works in the province of Quebec. The PublicArt database will eventually include all public art works in Canada as well, thus meeting Artexte’s mandate." [qtd. from http://www.artexte.ca/a_histor.htm]
Art Library of the State Russian Museum
This library's collection contains "Russian items from the beginning of the 18th century and foreign from the 17th century, private book collections that had belonged to cultural and art workers,prominent collectors, artists, and to art historians. The fund includes libraries that had been collected by princes Gagarin, princes of Oldenburg, Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovitch, V.Argutinsky-Dolgoruky,A.S.Suvorin, S.Makovsky, E.Reytern, A.N.Benois, V.V.Lebedev, V.N.Petrov, B.N. Okunev, K.A.Korbadovsky, A.M.Shadrin, and also parts of the libraries of the Committee of Guardianship of Russian Icon-painting,the Popularization of Art Editions committee, Schtiglitz School, Izmailovsky and Finlandsky Regiments, and the Library of the St.-Petersburg Handicraft Wares Museum. The Library annually subscribesto Russian and foreign periodicals (magazines and newspapers)." [qtd. from http://www.rml.org.ru/english/about.htm]
Atlanta College of Art Library
The ACA shares a library catalog with Atlanta's High Museum of Art. The library contains "over 26,000 books, 70,000 slides, subscribes to over 250 periodicals and maintains an active referralservice and slide registry for artists working in Georgia. The new Artists' Books Room houses a collection of artists' books (art in the form of books) which is nationally recognized and unparalleledin the region. The library also features a beautifully appointed Rare Books Room." [qtd. from http://www.aca.edu/vframelibrary.htm]
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library (Columbia University)
"The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library collects books and periodicals in architecture, historic preservation, art history, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative arts, city planning,real estate, and archaeology. The architectural and fine arts components are non-circulating. Materials in the Ware Collection, mainly books on urban planning and real estate development, do circulate.The Library contains more than 250,000 volumes and receives approximately 1,500 periodicals. The scope of the Avery collection in architecture . . . ranges from the first Western printed book on architecture, Dere aedificatoria (1485), by Leone Battista Alberti, to the classics of modernism by Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Avery's drawing and manuscript collection holds 400,000 drawings and originalrecords." [qtd. from http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/about.html]
Balch Art Research Library (L.A. County Museum of Art)
The Balch Library "primarily supports internal research and documentation of art objects in the museum's collection for museum exhibitions and proposed acquisitions. The library also maintainsan extensive research level collection in art history and related areas, which is available to outside users by appointment. [The Library] contains approximately 150,000 books and periodical volumesand 30,000 auction catalogs, including monographs on artists and specialized art subjects; art reference books (biographical, library catalogs, dictionaries, etc.); collection and exhibition catalogsof museums, galleries, and private collectors; scholarly periodicals in the field of art and related areas; auction and sale catalogs; one-artist file exhibition announcements, catalogs, and otherephemera; and supportive material in related fields of study (e.g., religion, philosophy, history, literature, conservation and restoration, and museum studies). [qtd. from http://www.lacma.org/library/lacrea.htm]
Bapst Art Library (Boston College)
"The collection at Bapst includes the major print and electronic resources in Fine Arts and supports the research of the Fine Arts Department, as well as the rest of the B.C. community. BapstArt Resources include all the major art databases, an extensive reference collection, approximately 200 serials, many CD-ROMs, and over 28,000 Fine Arts volumes." Bapst Library also houses theBurns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections. [qtd. from http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/ulib/bap/bapst.html]
This site offers a direct link to the Pompidou's library catalog seven days a week. The catalog is not available from 11:50 pm to 3:00 am Paris time (5:50 pm to 9:00 pm EST). Search pages in Englishare available.
Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art
Located at McGill University in Montreal, this library's holdings contain "90,000 volumes, including 2,500 rare books (now housed in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennanLibrary Building, 4th floor) and close to 350 current periodical subscriptions. The collections have grown particularly strong in the history of Byzantine and Medieval art, iconography, Italian renaissanceart and architecture, 17th and 18th century European architecture and Canadian architecture and planning. Rare editions include, among others, those of Vitruvius, Palladio, Serlio, Vasari, Scamozzi,Vignola and Ledoux. The Canadian Architecture Collection (CAC), an archival repository which is an integral part of the Library, houses 210,000 architectural drawings, 25 000 historical photographsand slides, records of architectural practice, as well as over 800 student papers dealing with the history of Canadian architecture. " [qtd. from http://blackader.library.mcgill.ca/info2.html]
Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library (University of Louisville)
"The Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library houses the University's research collection in the fine arts (painting, drawing and sculpture), architectural history, fiber arts, photography, pottery,printmaking, interior and graphic design, and art education. The library currently contains about 74,000 volumes, including videos and CD-ROMs, and subscribes to 300 journals and museum bulletins." [qtd.from http://www.louisville.edu/library/art/]
Canadian Centre for Architecture Library
"Rich in rare books and special collections, the Library is dedicated to the literature of architecture in its broadest sense, including its professional history, its formal and theoretical elementsand its relationship to the main currents of intellectual history. Its collections seek to document the history of architectural discourse and to promote scholarship and research in architectural historyand theory; they aim to be as comprehensive as possible in scholarly, theoretical works while also focusing on a variety of special subject areas.
One of these special collections is that of early architectural treatises. Documenting the beginning of the modern tradition of enlightened debate about architecture, these renaissance treatises area centrepiece of the CCA Library and comprise a collection of international importance. Supporting this material is a large body of Italian regional histories and city guides dating from the beginningof printing into the nineteenth century. Particular interest has been paid to the architectural literature of the countries whose culture has contributed to the formation of Canadian culture, Englandand France. There is an important collection of British country house guides of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as of literature of the English Gothic Revival. The French contribution to the urbanculture of Québec and its fortified cities is reflected in a growing collection of manuals, treatises and manuscripts on fortification. There are strong imprints from Germany and The Netherlands,and significant strengths in Eastern European holdings, especially books and periodicals on architecture published in the former Soviet Union. There are also two unique CCA collections, one of over750 architectural toys and games, and one of architectural trade catalogues from the late 18th through the 20th century. A strong collection has been formed of literature on 20th century Modernismand avant-garde architecture which is supported by an outstanding collection of architectural periodicals, one of the Library's principal assets as an active research library." [qtd. from http://cca.qc.ca/New_Site/library/general.html]
Located in Williamstown, MA, the Clark Art Institute Library focuses on post-medieval art. "The collection is outstanding in the Italian and Northern Renaissance, Baroque, and French 19th-centuryfields and is well balanced in other areas . . . Founded on the libraries of the former firm of Duveen Brothers (New York) and of the late Dutch art historian W. R. Juynboll, the Clark also holds animportant collection of books on the decorative arts given by Mary Ann Beinecke and a collection of works on early 20th-century art (with particular strengths in Dada and Surrealism) given by GeorgeHeard Hamilton, former director of the Institute. Robert Sterling Clark's outstanding collection of rare books is notable for its illustrated books, fine bindings, and literature in rare editions andcomprises about one-third of the 2200 titles in the rare book collection. In addition, the library holdings include a collection of 20th-century artists' books." [qtd. from http://www.clarkart.edu/research_and_academic/content.cfm?ID=76&nav=3]
College of Fine Arts Library at the University of New South Wales
"[A]n academic research library specialising in art and design, with particular strength in Australian material. [qtd. from http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~cofa/lib_researchserv.html]
Cornell University Fine Arts Library
With 168,000 volumes and 6,500 microforms, Cornell's Fine Arts Library is now "one of the larger academic art and architecture libraries in the country. The Fine Arts Library is the main sourceon [Cornell's] campus for books and journals on the visual arts, architecture, and city and regional planning. The emphasis of the collections is on the cultures of the West, and materials in mostWestern languages are included." [qtd. from http://www.library.cornell.edu/finearts/Circulation/Collections.html]
Courtauld Institute of Art (London)
This link will take you to the Coutauld's main page. Click on the "Library" link to the left to visit their library. "The Book Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art is a specialistlibrary within the University of London, and is a last-resort reference library for research in the field of art history. It is not a public library, but exists primarily to provide a service to theInstitute's undergraduate and postgraduate students and academic staff, and to visiting academics, postgraduate research students and other scholars both from within and outside the University whocannot obtain the material they require elsewhere. It aims to provide an art historical collection at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and is one of the major international collections ofart historical books, periodicals, and exhibition catalogues in the country, currently numbering some 130,000 volumes. A considerable proportion of this material is in French, Italian, Dutch, Germanand Spanish. Rare and antiquarian books form part of the working collection of the Library." [qtd. from http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/Pages/indexframe.html]
This site, including the library catalog, is entirely in Italian. "Il Centro, in quanto elemento accentratore di tutto quanto e' strumento per la diffusione dell'arte contemporanea, comprendevari dipartimenti e precisamente:
- le dieci sale del Museo, sede degli avvenimenti espositivi;
- il CID/Arti Visive (Centro di Informazione e Documentazione), biblioteca specializzata di arte contemporanea, dotato di catalogo consultabile on-line;
- il Dipartimento Educazione, che promuove nei suoi laboratori un programma di attivita' didattiche rivolte a studenti e, anche, insegnanti;
- la Sezione Avvenimenti, che organizza eventi scenici come performances, opere musicali, rassegne video sia nell'Anfiteatro del Museo (circa 700 posti) che nel suo Auditorium (100 posti).Potete conoscere meglio i dipartimenti facendo clic sul bottone relativo a quello che vi interessa." [qtd. from http://www.centropecci.it/htm/ho.htm]
DADABASE (Musueum of Modern Art, New York)
"The Museum Library is a comprehensive collection devoted to modern and contemporary art. The non-circulating collection documents painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, architecture,design, performance, video, film and emerging art forms from 1880 to the present. Staff are available to help locate relevant collections and materials, or to direct your question to the appropriatedepartment.
The Library's holdings include more than 160,000 books and exhibition catalogs, 300 periodical subscriptions and over 40,000 vertical files of announcements and ephemera about individual artists.Collection highlights include works on Dada and Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, and the Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PAD/D) Archive.
DADABASE includes records for all material in the Library, including books, periodical titles, exhibition catalogs, auction catalogs, pamphlet files, artists' books, special collections materials,and Web sites. Records for selected material from the Museum Archives and Study Centers are also included." [qtd. from http://www.moma.org/docs/research/library/index.htm]
documenta Archiv (Kassel, Germany)
"The documenta Archive was founded in Kassel on the occasion of the world's biggest and probably most important exhibition of contemporary art: the documenta. Arnold Bode, initiator of the documenta,established the archive in 1961 with the idea that it should be a place for the documentation and research of international modern art. As one of the leading libraries specialising in twentieth centuryart, the archive holds books, exhibition catalogues, periodicals and other printed matter on more than 50, 000 artists from all over the world and is open to students and the public alike. Apart fromthe extensive reading library, the archive owns a vast collection of material concerning the nine documenta exhibitions that have been held to date. Such wide-ranging material as account-books, artisticconceptions, correspondence between organisers and artist, newspaper cuttings, catalogues and leaflets affords an insight not only into postwar art, but also into its representation and the preparationof exhibitions in general." [qtd. from http://www.uni-kassel.de/bib/documenta/docum2e.htm]
Dutch University Institute for Art History (Florence, Italy)
"The library of the Institute possesses a rich and well-developed collection of scholarly texts on the history of art and civilization. Its main areas of specialization are the art of Italy andof the Low Countries, which were, moreover, the fields of interest of two of the founding-fathers of the Institute, prof. Godefridus Hoogewerff and the great art collector Frits Lugt (Fondation Custodia).Particular attention is paid to artistic relationships between Northern and Southern Europe. In addition, there is special emphasis on the sections devoted to the graphic arts, drawing, and iconology.Over the past years, there has been a substantial increase in publications of modern and contemporary art and architecture. To complement its library resources, the Institute provides access to itsrich Photographic Archive and to such research tools as the Bibliografia dell'Arte Grafica and the DIAL (Decimal Index to the Art of the Low Countries)." [qtd. from http://www.iuoart.org/libr.htm]
John M. Flaxman Library (Art Institute of Chicago)
Among other resources, the Flaxman Library contains the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, a Film Study Collection, and a Fashion Resource Center.
Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives (Banff, Alberta)
"The library's mandate is to provide an organization of facilities, access systems and personnel to encourage artists to develop their creative potential and adopt an interdisciplinary approachto the arts. The result is a collection of materials with a focus on the visual and performing arts. [. . . ] To date, the library has over 89,000 items in the collections. The archives' mandate isto collect the accumulated experience of The Banff Centre. To reflect both the administration and the culture, the holdings consist of presidential and departmental records, private papers, and semi-officialmaterials such as newsletters, program calendars for the Centre for the Arts and Centre for Management, annual reports, concert programs and posters. Other media such as photographs, videos, soundrecordings, technical drawings and productions books from the music, opera, musical theatre, drama and ballet programs form a significant part of the holdings." [qtd. from http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/Library/about/]
"The library, one of the finest Asian art libraries in the United States, contains book-related materials, archives, and a slide collection. It has more than 68,000 volumes—including monographsand serials—predominantly on Asian art and archaeology, and it also collects items relating to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American painters represented in the Freer's art collections.The slide library has more than 110,000 images, including those of objects in the Galleries' own collections as well as those in other institutions. The archives holds manuscripts and historical photographsand serves as a depository for the galleries' records." [qtd. from http://www.asia.si.edu/aboutus/library.htm]
The Frick Art Reference Library
The Library's mission "has always been to gather photographs of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and illuminated manuscripts executed between the fourth and the mid-twentieth century by Europeanand American artists; to collate with each photograph facts relating to the object’s history and present location; and to create a comprehensive research library for the study of Western art.Today the Library’s holdings of books, periodicals, auction sale catalogs, special collections and archives complement the photoarchive to comprise one of the world’s most valued art researchcenters and the most comprehensive resource on the history of collecting and patronage." [qtd. http://www.frick.org/html/libf.htm]
Getty Research Library (Los Angeles)
"The general collections include books, serials, and auction catalogs. The book collection encompasses Western art, archaeology, and architecture from the Bronze Age to the present, with representativeselections of material in the humanities and related fields. French, German, Russian, Italian, and American avant-garde materials are a special strength. 25,000 volumes focus on the conservation ofcultural heritage, historic preservation, and applied science and technology. The serials collections represent Western art and architecture, as well as selected titles in disciplines of the humanitiesand social sciences. The auction catalog collection is among the most comprehensive of its kind, with more than 110,000 volumes covering the art market from the late seventeenth century to the present.
Special Collections contains rare books and archival materials as well as rare photographs, prints and drawings for the study of the visual arts and culture. Included are artists' journals and sketchbooks,albums, architectural drawings, art and architectural treatises, early guidebooks, emblem books, festival books, prints, and drawings. Special Collections is particularly strong in manuscript materialsfor art movements such as Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, the Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, and Fluxus. Specialized photographic resources focus on festivals, travel, international expositions, colonialism,architecture, and urban development. In keeping with the Research Library's goal of encouraging scrutiny of the traditional practices, institutions, and philosophies of art history, special effortshave been made to collect the libraries and papers of notable art historians, photographers, artists, collectors, dealers, designers, academies, and public institutions. Some featured materials arethe Frank Lloyd Wright Collection and archival resources providing information about Nazi-Era Assets. More information about Special Collections, including access information and contacts, is available.
The Photo Study Collection, which contains approximately two million study photographs, documents works of fine and decorative arts and architecture from the ancient world through the twentieth century." [qtd.from http://www.getty.edu/research/library/collections.html]
Glenbow Library (Calgary, Alberta)
This library "documents the history of western Canada, from the time buffalo roamed the plains, to the coming of the railroad and settlement of the West, to political, economic and social eventsin Alberta today. Glenbow's Library is a treasure house of reference materials on western Canada. More than 100,000 books, periodicals, newspapers, maps, and pamphlets capture the people and eventsthat have shaped our western Canadian heritage. Rare illustrated books document equestrian literature from the 15th century. Well-thumbed school books recall the days of one-room school houses. TheLibrary complements Glenbow's core collections and contains volumes and other material on military history, ethnology, mineralogy and art." [qtd. from http://www.glenbow.org/library.htm]
Hardie Library of Australian Fine Arts
"The core of the James Hardie Library is its collection of over 12,000 titles including a breathtaking array of first editions and foundation firsts in Australian art publishing, such as thefirst Australian art book on an Australian artist with colour plates, the first Australian art magazine, and the first book on an Australian photographer. It also holds limited and deluxe editionsof illustrated art books, and archival and manuscript material relating to the visual arts. Other important material includes posters, printers' mock-ups, publishers' dummies, Australian bookplates,original artworks, blocks and plates used to produce illustrations in Australian art books and fine examples of botanical illustration by Australian artists. It also holds a comprehensive collectionof Australian Private Press publications, examples of designer bookbindings and an invaluable collection of primary source material such as exhibition invitations and catalogues dating from the 19thCentury to the present.
One of the special features of the James Hardie Library is a collection of Australian artists' books. The material is diverse, ranging from lyrical and poetical works, books that take on a sculpturalaspect to beautiful examples which blend the creativity of the artist with the technology of today's computer age. These artists' books come in all forms, shapes and sizes, and are made out of a rangeof materials including wood, handmade paper and stone. [The Hardie Library also] actively collects original manuscript material and contains several important archives relating to Australian artistsand galleries." [qtd. from http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/scd/arts/jameshardie.htm]
Hillyer Art Library (Smith College)
"Hillyer Art Library provides broad-based coverage of the history, theory, criticism, and practice of the visual arts. The collections include over 95,000 volumes, 36,000 microforms, and 320current serials subscriptions to support teaching and research in almost all fields of art. Drawing on a long tradition of vigorous collection development, Renaissance art and architecture is an areaof special collection strength. Greek, Roman, Asian, and Medieval art are also areas of note. [M]icroform holdings include items such as American Architectural Books, which reproduces almost1,500 books, portfolios, and pamphlets published in the United States before 1895, and the Marburger Index, a massive microfiche collection reproducing the entire holdings of the BildarchivFoto Marburg--920,000 photographs of works in German collections [. . .] as well as German architecture. Another of Hillyer’s notable microfiche resources is the Biblioteca Cicognara, whichreproduces the 5,000-item library collected by Conte Leopoldo Cicognara and acquired by the Vatican Library in 1824. It includes books, treatises, and pamphlets on art history, theory, criticism, andpractice, as well as on related subjects such as archaeology, museology, costume, and emblems, all of which date from between antiquity and the early nineteenth century." [qtd. from http://www.smith.edu/libraries/hillyer/bpcoldes.htm]
Institute of the Arts Library and Resource Centre (Australian National University)
Art and music resources from the ANU, which also houses the Australian Centre for Arts and Technology, the Canberra School of Art and the Canberra School of Music.
IRCAM Multimedia Library (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
You can search the music library at the Pompidou from this site. (In French and English)
IRIS (A Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence)
"[T]he IRIS consortium of Florentine libraries is composed of the Berenson Library (Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies); the library of the Dutch UniversityInstitute for Art History in Florence; the library of the Uffizi (Soprintendenza BAS di Firenze, Pistoia e Prato); the library of the Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte R. Longhi; the libraryof the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento; and the library of the Opficio delle Pietre Dure. [. . .] Responding to an age characterized by increasing demands for efficient information managementand delivery, the six member institutes have joined together to create a shared bibliographic database, whose content records the holdings of each institute's library. The IRIS catalog represents aunique resource for scholarly research in the humanities. The focus is on art history (including references on art conservation and restoration) and the Renaissance in all its aspects (history, literature,philosophy, political theory, and music), with particular attention to scholarship on the Italian Renaissance . . . [A]ccess to the Internet enables both the Florentine scholarly community and patronsin remote locations to ascertain the existence of desired titles and to pinpoint their specific location in Florence. The bibliographic catalog is composed of more than 200,000 titles, representingprinted monographs and periodicals, manuscripts, incunabula, and non-print media (microfilms, microfiche, CD-ROMs, videos, sound recordings). [qtd. from http://www.iris.firenze.it/eng/index_e.html]
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
"Unique in their scope and richness, the Prints & Photographs collections today number over 13.6 million images. These include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters,and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives,interests and achievements of the American people." [qtd. from http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/001_ref.html]
Richard and Ronay Menschel Library (George Eastman House, Rochester)
"The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House is internationally recognized as a significant resource for research in the history of photography and cinema. The scope of thelibrary reflects the Museum's extensive resources in the photography, motion picture, and technology collections. The library collects and preserves books, periodicals, manuscript collections, audiotapes,and ephemera that illuminate the history of more than 160 years of photography and a century of film. The collection traces a multifaceted history of both mediums, including technological developments,scientific research, the photographic and motion picture industries, artistic endeavors, the work of professional photographers, amateur efforts, film directors' contributions, the interests of filmfans, as well as the birth and accumulated history of the two disciplines.
The library houses more than 51,000 volumes on photography and film. The comprehensive periodical collection numbers more than 2,500 titles. Two hundred and sixty-four linear feet of manuscript materials,the papers of photographers, studios, scientists, and others connected to the field are an important sub-collection. Nine hundred and forty audiotapes document the lives of photographers and more thanfifty years of programs at the Museum. An extensive ephemera file, started in the 1950s by Beaumont Newhall, the first curator of the collections, contains information and notes on photographers anda variety of subjects related to photographic history. Some of the collection is accessible on microfilm." [qtd. from http://www.eastman.org/14_libcoll/libpage.html]
National Art Library (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
"The NAL is both a major reference library and the Victoria and Albert Museum's curatorial department for the art, craft and design of the book. [. . .] The Library's fundamental strength liesin the range and depth of its holdings of documentary material concerning the fine and decorative arts, from many countries and periods. Within that broad spread, there are some subjects that are particularlywell covered. The art and craft of the book is represented in the collection of fine and noteworthy bindings, the Clements Collection (armorial bookbindings), the collections of calligraphy and fineprinting, and the extensive holdings of twentieth-century artists' books and Book art. The Library has important collections relating to international exhibitions, including the Great Exhibition of1851, and of exhibition catalogues of all kinds published by museums and galleries. It is also a major centre for collecting art sale catalogues, with long runs from many of the major auction houses.Contemporary trade literature is actively being collected, augmenting existing collections of such material going back to the nineteenth century. Ephemeral documentation about contemporary artistsis available through the Library's Information Files. The NAL's documentary manuscripts collections include letters, account books and other records relating to individual artists and the productionand marketing of decorative and artistic objects." [qtd. from http://www.nal.vam.ac.uk/]
National Gallery of Art Library (Washington, DC)
"The Library contains a comprehensive collection of more than 200,000 books, periodicals, and documents on the history, theory, and criticism of art and architecture. The emphasis is on Westernart from the Middle Ages to the present (particularly Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German, French, Spanish, and British schools) and American art from the colonial era to the present. Microform and videodisccollections, along with extensive vertical files, supplement the Library's book holdings.
Other strengths of the Library's collection include monographs on individual artists as well as international exhibition, museum, and private collection catalogues. The Library holds approximately2,400 periodical titles, of which about 900 are current. It also subscribes to all categories of auction catalogues from all major American and European auction houses, and has a rich retrospectivecollection of catalogues from the seventeenth century to the present." [qtd. from http://www.nga.gov/resources/dldesc.htm]
National Gallery of Australia Library
"As well as a general coverage of art history, the Gallery's Research Library has particular strengths which match those of the Gallery's art collection, such as aboriginal art, Australian art,Asian textiles, Ballets Russes, contemporary art worldwide, and selected areas of African, Oceanic and Pre-Colombian art. Special Collections include contemporary auction sale catalogues, contemporaryExhibition catalogues, Crystal Palace exhibition materials, Nineteenth Century auction sales, Nineteenth Century decorative arts, Nineteenth Century periodicals, Nineteenth Century photography, andParis Salon catalogues. The Documentation Collection contains unique holdings of ephemeral materials, clippings, photographs, exhibition notices and pamphlets for Australian artists, Australian galleries,overseas artists and overseas galleries [, and the Gallery has] a growing collection of archives for Australian artists and galleries." [qtd. from http://www.nga.gov.au/Research/Library/Collection.htm]
National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
"The Library of the National Gallery of Canada houses the most extensive collection of visual arts literature in Canada. The Canadiana collections aim at comprehensiveness; other notable strengthsare the history of the Western tradition from the late Middle Ages to the present, with particular emphasis on painting, sculpture and the graphic arts of Great Britain, France, Italy and the UnitedStates, and the history and technology of photography.
The collections include 230,000 books, exhibition catalogues and bound periodicals, 1,100 current periodical subscriptions, 41,000 auction catalogues, 95,000 microforms, 70,000 documentation files,350,000 study photographs, 182,000 slides and 650 linear meters of institutional archives and private papers. The Archives are of national importance as witness to the development of the visual artsin Canada since the founding of the National Gallery in 1880 to the present." [qtd. from http://www.gallery.ca/library/collect/index_e.html]
National Museum of Women in the Arts Library (Washington, DC)
The Library has over 11,000 volumes of books and exhibition catalogues, 300 videotapes, 100 audio tapes and 250 posters. and subscribes to more than 75 periodicals. Over 16,000 files on women artistsof all periods and nationalities can be found in their Archives on Women Artists, and the Library also maintains its own Institutional Archives. Special collections include artists' books, book plates,archives of the International Festival of Women Artists, and the papers of Eulabee Dix, Doris Lee, and Edna Reindel.
North Carolina Museum of Art Library
"The Library's emphasis is on Western European and American art, in support of the Museum's primary collections. The Library holds approximately 30,000 volumes, including books, auction and exhibitioncatalogs, CD-ROMs, videos and nearly 100 current periodical subscriptions. A publications exchange program with more than 300 museums worldwide augments the collection. Books added since 1980 are includedin the online public access catalog, which is part of the North Carolina State Library's OPAC. The Art Reference Library catalogs materials using the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) databases.Periodical holdings and on-order records are not included.
Other resources not in the OPAC include the Artists File (a vertical file which includes North Carolina artists), material from the John Levy Galleries in New York (also available on microfilm fromthe Archives of American Art), auction catalogs, and some NCMA publications and archival material." [qtd. from http://ncartmuseum.org/geninfo/library.html]
Philadelphia Museum of Art Library
"The Philadelphia Museum of Art Library houses approximately 140,000 volumes, including books, periodicals, and auction sale catalogs. New title lists are generated bi-monthly. Library collectionstrengths are a reflection of the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art." [qtd. from http://www.philamuseum.org/resources/library.shtml]
"The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. The collection of Asian art, with objects dating from the third millenium B.C. to thepresent, includes ceramics, sculpture, paintings, and decorative objects as well as a Japanese ceremonial teahouse, a Chinese palace hall, and a celebrated collection of Oriental carpets. The Europeancollections include medieval sculpture, stained glass, and a 13th-century French cloister; masterpieces of Renaissance painting; a suite of 18th-century French interiors; and superb Impressionist andPost-Impressionist paintings. The American collections include extensive holdings of Pennsylvania German art; refined furniture and silver by early Philadelphia craftsmen; and the most important collectionin the world of works by Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins. The art of the 20th century can be traced from the early innovations of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and Duchamp to great works of abstractexpressionism, pop art, color field painting, and contemporary work in many media." [qtd. from http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/
Post Memorial Art Reference Library (Joplin, Missouri)
"The Post collection concentrates on the history of art rather than on techniques for creating art. It covers all the visual media, such as painting, drawing, stained glass, print-making, andsculpture. It also encompasses related fields--gardening, calligraphy, antiques and archaeology. The photography section is especially popular with the library's patrons. Other areas of special interestare architecture, historic preservation, and Joplin's historic buildings.
A small portion of the collection comprises rare books owned by Dr. & Mrs. Post. The other books have been purchased since the library opened. In addition, the library subscribes to about thirtyart-related periodicals." [qtd. from http://users.joplin.com/%7Elsimpson/]
Ricker Library of Architecture and Art (University of Illinois)
"[T]he collections of the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art include more than 120,000 volumes and 33,000 serials (some housed in the Library's main bookstacks), 35,000 microforms, and asmall but burgeoning collection of videos. The holdings cover the fields of architecture, architectural history, art, art history, museum studies, and art education. The art and design collection includesboth general and special period works on the history of art, monographs on artists, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, crafts, museology, art education, graphic design, industrial design, andprints and printmaking. The unit has an extensive holding of exhibition catalogs from all time periods and geographic locations. The architecture collection includes landmark titles in architecture,history and theory of design, historic preservation, professional practice and management, structures, and monographs on architects and building types. The unit maintains a particularly strong collectionof information on current practicing architects. The Ricker Library has a major collection of catalogues raisonnes on important artists, architects, and sculptors, and endeavors to buy both currentand out-of-print editions. Among the unit's treasures are several large portfolios dealing with Frank Lloyd Wright, complete runs of rare nineteenth-century architecture and art journals, and Ricker'sown translations of nearly fifty classic works on architecture. Ricker Library has a subscription to the entire Cicognara Library on microfiche. The Cicognara collection, housed in the Vatican Library,represents the 5,000 books on art and related subjects assembled by the eighteenth-century patron of the arts, Count Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834). Thanks to a unique cooperative agreement in the1950s with the Art Institute of Chicago, 31 microfilm reels dealing with midwestern architectural drawings were filmed under the auspices of a microfilming project sponsored jointly by the Art Institute'sBurnham Library and the University of Illinois. In 1988, the Ricker Library began to create a collection of books about residential architecture, thanks to a gift from architecture alumnus John G.Replinger in memory of architecture alumnus Albert O. Bumgardner." [qtd. from http://www.library.uiuc.edu/arx/ricker.htm]
Ryerson and Burham Archives (The Art Institute of Chicago)
"The Ryerson & Burnham Libraries form a major art and architecture research library of 350,000 works, including 35,000 pamphlet files, 70,000 art auction catalogs, and 1,200 current serialsubscriptions, as well as extensive archival collections. Approximately 10,000 volumes are added annually. All periods and media are covered, but special emphasis is placed on architecture of the 18ththrough 20th centuries and 19th century painting, prints, drawings, and decorative arts. Special collections include the Percier and Fontaine Collection of 17th-19th century architectural books, theMary Reynolds Collection on Dada and Surrealism, the George R. Collins Archive of Catalan Art and Architecture, and the Mrs. James Ward Thorne Collection of illustrated books . . . The Ryerson & BurnhamArchives hold extensive archives of artists' and architects' papers, including Chicago and Midwestern architects such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer, Edward Bennett,Bruce Goff, P.B. Wight, and Daniel H. Burnham. " [qtd. from http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/collections.html]
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (Miami Beach, FL)
Since 1979, the Sackner Archive's "initial mission" has been to "establish a collection of books, critical texts, periodicals, ephemera, prints, drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures,objects, manuscripts, and correspondence dealing with precedent and contemporary, internationally produced, concrete and visual poetry." Over twenty years later, it continues to do just that.[qtd. from http://www.rediscov.com/sackner.htm]
Scholes Library at the New York State College of Ceramics (Alfred, NY)
"Scholes Library is still noted for its holdings in the art, science, technology, and history of ceramics and glass, but subject coverage has expanded to meet the changing needs of the College'sSchool of Art and Design and School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science. Collection strengths now include painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, electronic media, graphic design, arthistory, and advanced materials." [qtd. from http://scholes.alfred.edu/about_scholes/history3.html
"[T]he Special Collections Room at Scholes houses several different categories of material. All original College graduate theses and dissertations are held here, with circulating copies availablein the main collection. Over 700 rare books and folio volumes are cataloged in Special Collections, plus signed copies of many publications by past and present College faculty. In addition, a growingcollection of Artists' Books is available in this room for hands-on examination by students and faculty." [qtd. from http://scholes.alfred.edu/about_scholes/speccoll.html]
Sherman Art Library at Dartmouth College
"Sherman Art Library serves the subject areas of art, architecture, and photography. The collection includes books and periodicals; exhibition catalogs of United States and foreign art museumsand galleries; auction catalogs; and reference sources and indexes, including CD-ROM and catalogues raisonnées." [qtd. from http://www.dartmouth.edu/library/thelibs/sherman.shtml]
SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System, Washington, DC)
"The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) is the online catalog of resources held by the Institution's libraries, archives, and other specialized research centers." [qtd.from http://www.siris.si.edu/]
Smithsonian Archives of American Art (Washington, DC)
"Spanning the centuries since the founding of America to the present day, the collections of the Archives of American Art comprise the largest source in the world of primary source documentationon the visual arts in America. Contained in the over five thousand collections, are letters, diaries, sketches and sketchbooks, photographs, exhibition catalogs, scrapbooks, business records, art periodicals,and other types of documents, totaling roughly fourteen million items. The collections, combined with approximately three thousand interviews done for AAA's oral history program, and nearly one thousandphotographs in AAA's Photographs of Artists Collections, are an endless treasure trove of raw material for art historians and scholars in other fields to explore." [qtd. from http://artarchives.si.edu/collectn.htm]
Southern Alberta Art Gallery Reference Library (Lethbridge)
"The SAAG Library's collection includes "videos of lectures and interviews with artists who have shown at the SAAG plus other videos on different subject matter; numerous exhibition cataloguesfrom galleries across Canada, the U.S.A. and Europe; slides documenting past exhibitions and events at the SAAG; reference materials in the form of technical manuals, maps, art directories and governmentalreports; a broad selection of art periodicals; newsletters and annual reports produced by many Canadian and American galleries; and books pertaining to Canadian, American and international art of thelast 150 years." [qtd. from http://home.uleth.ca/lib/lethlibraries/sabartgal.shtml]
Spencer Art Reference Library (Kansas City, MO)
"The Library collection of 93,000 volumes includes monographs, serials, auction catalogues, exhibition catalogues, and non-book resources. Current serial subscriptions number about 800. The collectioncovers all periods and media of art with special strengths in European and Chinese art, biographical resources, and prints and drawings. A current collecting initiative focuses on works about modernsculpture." [qtd. from http://www.nelson-atkins.org/information/library.htm]
Stanford University Art and Architecture Library
"Research needs and course reserve requirements in the fields of art history and architectural history are supported by the Art Library's 150,000 volumes, including over 500 active journal titles.This includes materials on the history of painting, sculpture, drawing, the graphic arts and the decorative arts. (Materials on classical archaeology, aesthetics, and urban design are shelved in theGreen Library stacks, as are most materials of a cross-disciplinary nature that examine the relationship of the visual arts to other art forms -- literature, music, dance, etc.) Books and microformsin the Art Library collection include monographs on the work of specific artists and architects, exhibition catalogs from museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad, catalogs of works of art heldin public and private collections, and surveys of the art and architectural history of geographical areas and chronological periods." [qtd. from http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/art/artcollections.html]
Stout Library at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
To get to the library's catalog, click on Education and Community / Libraries / Stout Reference Library. "The library’s growing collection of approximately 100,000 volumes consists of: books,exhibition catalogues, and museum publications; magazines, scholarly journals and museum bulletins; files on more than 28,000 artists, including more than 3,800 Indiana artists; catalogues from auctionhouses, including Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips Calendars, annual reports and other information from art museums worldwide." [qtd. from http://www.ima-art.org/]
TalisWeb OPAC (London Institute Libraries)
This site enables users to search libary catalogs at Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design Library, Chelsea College of Art and Design Library, the London Collegeof Fashion Library, and the London College of Printing.
Taylor Research Library at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
To get to the library's page, click on Menu / Research Library and Archives. "Especially strong in Canadian, Inuit, and international contemporary art, the [AGO's] reference collections encompassover 100,000 volumes, more than 1,300 journal titles, some 40,000 sales and auction catalogues (including the current catalogues of major international and Canadian auction houses), and 35,000 filesof ephemeral documentation on Canadian and world contemporary artists. Significant groupings in the rare book holdings include: art historical source books from the 17th century to the present; BritishNeoclassical folios of the 18th century; artist books and multiples; Garrow Collection of Victorian illustrated books; Emily Elliott Collection of magazine illustration; 19th century Baedeker guidebooks;the Fonds Catroux (French art sale catalogues, late 18th - mid 20th century); and books illustrated by Canadian artists. The archives and special collections components focus on the Gallery's history(textual records, architectural drawings, photographs and other media) and on a wide range of Canadian artists, art world notables and art organizations." [qtd. from http://www.ago.net]
Toledo Museum of Art Reference Library
The primary art research facility for students and faculty of the University of Toledo, this libary contains more than "60,000 volumes [and] is augmented by over 18,000 artist vertical files,thousands of auction and sale catalogues, subscriptions to several hundred periodicals, and information from museums all over the world." [qtd. from http://www.toledomuseum.org/library/]
Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library (USC)
"The AFA Library now houses over 75,000 volumes dedicated to the studies of art history, fine arts, and architecture, and a notable collection of rare titles, including an important set of boundPiranesi etchings. The Standish K. Penton Slide Collection comprises over 300,000 slides, including a small collection of original fin-de-siècle lantern slides. Recently the library has begunacquiring architectural drawings, artists' books and an important collection of architectural photographs by the prominent photographer Julius Shulman." [qtd. from http://artscenter.usc.edu/afa/overview.html]
"In addition to an extensive collection of monographs and artists' books, the library also has the distinction of holding many archives, focusing on the rich and exciting history of built LosAngeles. Not only do these archives contain many rarely seen photographs, but also original drawings and other documents." [qtd. from http://artscenter.usc.edu/afa/]
"The art collection at UCLA covers all aspects and periods of art and art history. It is strong in Italian Renaissance art, especially in Leonardo da Vinci materials (see the Elmer Belt Libraryof Vinciana), seventeenth century Dutch art, African Art, Pre-Columbian art, Asian art in Western languages (indigenous materials are housed in the East Asian Library in YRL), South Asian art, contemporaryLatin American art, new media and contemporary art in general. Among its other strengths are museum studies, iconography, art theory, exhibition catalogs, and electronic resources. The library hasan outstanding collection of artists' books which complements those in the Young Research Library Special Collections Department.
The Arts Library also possesses "approximately 20,000 monographic titles on architecture and receives currently more than 300 architectural periodicals [and] collects selectively in all areasof design and design history, including new media, industrial, graphic, typographic, furniture, glass, ceramics, fashion, textile, and jewelry." [qtd. from http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/collections/collect.htm]
University of Auckland Fine Arts Library
The University of Auckland Fine Arts Library collects "undergraduate and advanced material, with emphasis on European art history, contemporary art, New Zealand art, photography, history of photographyand design. Special collections include indexed press cuttings on New Zealand art, the Elam School of Fine Arts Archive, artists' books, reproductions, photographs, technical material, a small numberof original works of art, and a New Zealand artists' biographical/bibliographical file." [qtd. from http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/art/collect.htm]
University of California Santa Barbara Arts Library
Special collections at this library include art exhibition catalogs, artists' books, auction catalogs, videos, artists' sketchbook facsimiles, and Chinese scroll facsimiles.
University of Connecticut Art and Design Library
"The Art & Design Library . . . houses collections which focus upon the visual arts. This includes materials in applied and decorative arts, architecture, art history, garden history anddesign, graphic design, landscape architecture, photography, studio arts, and many other art-related subjects." The collection is comprised of more than 50,000 books, 100 journal titles, 8,500auction catalogs, and 14,000 items in visual resource files. Much of the material in the visual resource files deals with Connecticut institutions. [qtd. from http://www.lib.uconn.edu/art/info.htm#AboutTheLibrary]
University of New Mexico Fine Arts Library
General fine arts collection including material on art, art history, dance, film, architecture, and planning.
University of Maryland Art Library
"The Art Library houses a collection of over 92,000 volumes covering art history, archaeology and studio arts, including photography and graphic design. The collection is designed to supportupper-class, graduate level, and research programs in art and art history." [qtd. from http://www.lib.umd.edu/ART/colloc.html]
University of Oregon Architecture and Allied Arts Library
"The collections of the Architecture and Allied Arts Library primarily support academic programs associated with the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. In addition to the library's 80,000bound volumes, holdings include architectural drawings, photographs, microforms, electronic resources, and theses and terminal project reports. The Library holds about 2,700 periodical titles includingapproximately 450 current subscriptions." Special collections include architectural drawings, artists' books, computer manuals, and rare books. [qtd. from http://libweb.uoregon.edu/aaa/coll.html]
University of Toronto Fine Art Reference Library
"The catalogue collection comprises about 28,000 temporary (loan) and permanent (collection holdings) exhibition catalogues, as well as dealer catalogues from Europe and North America. Most arein languages other than English.
The photograph collection is particularly strong on Medieval architecture and manuscripts, Roman sculpture, and works in ivory and metal. To these were added in 1987 a Government of Ontario Art Collectionpresentation of 500 photographs. More recently, the National Gallery of Canada enhanced this archive with a donation of 3200 photographs of Canadian Historical Art." [qtd. from http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fine_art/grad/refinfo.htm]
"This foundational book collection has been maintained to support the curriculum of the Art Department so that today it is one of the truly exceptional college art book collections in the country,consisting of over 55,000 volumes whose records may be accessed via the Vassar College Libraries Online Catalog. Included are monographs, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, and other works related tothe art and architectural history of Europe, the United States, China and Japan. In recent years, the scope of the collection has expanded to cover African, Native American, Pre-Columbian, and MiddleEastern subjects." [qtd. from http://artlibrary.vassar.edu/collections.html]
Virginia Tech Art and Architecture Library
"The Visual Resources Collection of the Art + Architecture Library consists of over 70,000 architecture slides, 400 architectural drawing sets, 100 videos, and 80 CD-ROMs." [qtd. from http://www.lib.vt.edu/services/branches/artarch/]
Voorhies Fine Art Library at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR)
"PNCA's library houses nearly 10,000 books. This collection includes PNCA student thesis works (1958-present), over 300 videocassettes (covering art, culture, psychology, history, and other subjects),and a selection of art and liberal arts related periodicals." [qtd. from http://library.pnca.edu/collections.html]
Warburg Institute Library (London)
"The aim of the Warburg Institute Library is not to cover any one discipline exhaustively but to bring as much and as diverse information as possible to bear on specific problems. The 350,000or so volumes are classified in four sections: social and political history; religion, history of science and philosophy; literature, books, libraries and education; history of art. There are c. 2,500runs of periodicals, about half of them current. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has presented to the Library a complete microfiche edition of the 4,800 pre-1800 volumes in the Cicognara collection,Vatican Library. The libraries of the Royal Numismatic Society and the British Numismatic Society are housed, and accessible, in the Institute. The working papers of Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl, HenriFrankfort, Robert Eisler, Evelyn Jamison, D. P. Walker, Roberto Weiss and Frances A. Yates are available, on application, to suitably qualified persons." [qtd. from http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/Action/history.htm]
Ward Art Library (Oberlin, Ohio)
"The Art Library's collection includes over 81,000 books, exhibition catalogs, and bound periodicals, uncataloged exhibition and sales catalogs, and a large vertical file collection. The ArtLibrary currently receives over 250 journals and other serials. The collection covers all of the Visual Arts fields including Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Prints, Photography, and theDecorative Arts, as well as related materials in such fields as Anthropology, Archeology, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning. The collection covers the Visual Arts of all periods, Prehistoricthrough Modern, and of all nationalities with special emphasis on Western European, Chinese, Japanese, and American art." [qtd. from http://www.oberlin.edu/library/libncollect/art/Default.html]
Watsonline (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
"Thomas J. Watson Library is the research library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its noncirculating collection of books and periodicals relating to the history of art is one of the most comprehensivein the world. The scope of the library reflects the Museum's permanent collection, with particularly strong holdings in European and American art—including architecture and the decorative arts—aswell as substantial holdings in Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Asian, and Islamic art. The library contains approximately 450,000 titles (books, periodicals, exhibition catalogues,and auction and sale catalogues); 2,500 current serial subscriptions; collections of autograph letters; and extensive ephemeral files relating to individual artists and to the history of the MetropolitanMuseum. Watsonline, the Museum libraries' online catalogue, provides access to the records of approximately 70 percent of Watson Library's holdings and includes records for all material acquired since1980. Watsonline also contains records for partial holdings of the other Museum libraries." [qtd. from http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_lib.asp]
Wertz Art and Architecture Library (Oxford, Ohio)
More than 55,000 books and nearly 250 periodical titles currently received, including 74 classified titles. Subjects include Applied art, art history, art education, photography, architecture, architecturalhistory, environmental design, landscape architecture, interior design.
WhitneyCAT (Whitney Museum, New York)"The most comprehensive research collection in the field of twentieth-century American art, the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library contains more than 37,000 books and exhibition catalogs as wellas over 500 linear feet of vertical files on American art and artists. [. . .] Originally the personal collection of the Museum's founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the library has been collectingresearch materials on American artists for the past seventy years. [. . .] The Special Collections consist of artist’s books, portfolios, photographs, titles in the Whitney Fellows Artist andWriters Series (1982-2001), posters and the extensive documentation of American art compiled by thirty museums and college art departments between 1942 and 1948 under the auspices of the American ArtResearch Council. [. . .] The Whitney Museum's Archives are the repository for the institution’s exhibition records, photographs, curator's research notes, artist's correspondence, audio and videorecordings, Trustee's minutes and institutional papers from the Museum's early years to the present. These records document the evolution of the leading institution of twentieth-century American artand also shed light on the Whitney's mission and context: the story of American art itself." [qtd. from http://www.whitney.org/research/index.shtml]
"The library's bibliographic collection of 44,900 titles includes monographs, serials, exhibition catalogs, auction catalogs, and non-book resources. The holdings encompass all periods and mediaof art, with an emphasis on European, American, and Asian art. The slide collection of approximately 45,000 images includes photography, architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, decorativearts, and contemporary art. The slide collection reflects the art collection of the Worcester Art Museum and also has a broad range of images covering all civilizations from prehistory to the present." [qtd.from http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/library.html]
Yale Center for British Art Library
"The Reference Library of the Yale Center for British Art holds materials in a variety of formats supporting the study of British art and related fields including architecture, history, literature,and the performing arts. In addition to basic art reference works, journals and magazines, and books on individual artists, periods and movements, the library contains British biography, town and countyhistories, genealogy, travel books, costume histories; a large collection of exhibition catalogs and print and microform sales and auction catalogues; videotapes on individual artists, styles, schoolsand groups, etc.; and a collection of reference materials on the conservation of works of art. All Reference Library holdings are represented in ORBIS, Yale's online catalog." [qtd. from http://www.yale.edu/ycba/collection/library/index.htm]
Yale University Art and Architecture Library
". . . approximately 100,000 volumes on architecture, painting, graphic design, photography, urban planning, and the history of art and architecture . . . The Arts Library collection offers basicreference works, monographs, exhibition catalogues, and other scholarly works in the fields of art and architecture; a comprehensive collection of more than 800 periodicals, including nearly 500 currentsubscriptions; and a growing suite of networked digital library resources." [qtd. from http://www.library.yale.edu/art/aa.html]
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