GETTING STARTED

Art Reference N85.J64 1990
Jones, Lois Swan. Art Information: Research Methods and Resources. 3rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1990.
Covers basic and advanced art research methodology, search strategies, and the use of specific types of art research tools such as sales and auction information.

Art & Archaeology Library Subject Page
Links to resources covering a wide variety of art and architecture topics.

American Studies Library Subject Page
Links to resources covering all aspects of American history and culture.

LIBRARY HOLDINGS

Five College Library Catalog
The online catalog provides access to the combined library holdings of Smith, Amherst, Hampshire, and Mount Holyoke Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Library Reserve List
Up-to-date list of readings and references selected by Professor Davis for ARH374, Studies in Nineteenth-century Art, Homer and Eakins.

WorldCat
WorldCat is universal in subject scope and includes records for over 52 million items held in thousands of libraries throughout the United States and Europe. It is an excellent source for developing a bibliography and verifying citations. It is updated daily. To request items found in Worldcat through Smith's Interlibrary Loan Service, plan ahead and allow at least two weeks for delivery.

RLIN Bibliographic File
The Research Libraries Group's RLIN Bibliographic File is universal in subject scope and embraces all formats of materials including detailed descriptions of archival collections. It includes over 30 million titles and provides access to the specific holdings of many major art research libraries that do not contribute records to Worldcat. It is updated daily and accessible through a mediated search by appointment with the art librarian.

OTHER COLLECTIONS

Eakins Archives

Art Microforms ND237.E15 B7 1989
Eakins, Thomas. Manuscripts in Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection. Microfiche edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennyslvania Press, 1989.
Fully coordinated and cross-referenced to Writing about Eakins: The Manuscripts in Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection by Kathleen A. Foster and Cheryl Leibold (Philadelphia: Published for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), Art Reserve ND237.E15 F67 1989.
Series I. The papers of Thomas Eakins; Series II. The papers of Susan Macdowell Eakins; Series III. The papers of Benjamin Eakins and the Macdowell family; Series IV. The papers of Charles Bregler.

Archives of American Art

"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 documentation on 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."

AAA Website
Provides detailed descriptions of the AAA programs and services, a link to the AAA catalog, full-text finding guides to selected collections, online reference service, and online exhibits.

AAA Online Collection Catalog
Accessible through SIRIS, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System, on-line catalog records provide general descriptions of collection contents, provenance, a historical notes, information on restrictions and finding aids, and microfilm reel numbers.

Access to the Collections
"Many collections are available on microfilm at AAA's main and regional offices ... and through interlibrary loan from the Washington, D.C. Office. Use of unmicrofilmed papers at the Washington, D.C. storage facility requires an appointment."

• Interlibrary Loan through the Smith ILL Service
  To borrow copies of the unrestricted microfilmed materials in the AAA collections fill out the "loan request" (not the "article request") form on the Smith College ILL website. Be sure to note that the item is available from AAA, give its reel number, and paste the collection description from the AAA's online catalog into the notes box on the Smith ILL form. The loan period for AAA microfilm is one month and renewals are accepted if requested before the due date. Overdue fines are $5.00 per day.
• Visit Research Centers
  Hours, contact information, photocopying and other policies for use of materials at the Main Office/Processing Center in Washington, D.C., the New York City Center, the research centers at Boston Public Library and in California.

Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture

"The National Museum of American Art has established two comprehensive listings: Inventory of American Paintings Executed Before 1914 and Inventory of American Sculpture. Together, the Art Inventories provide information on over 300,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide. Information is compiled from a variety of sources including published catalogues, collection checklists, reports from collectors, journals and magazines, and preservation inventories." Works listed in the Inventory of American Paintings are paintings created by American artists working prior to 1914. If the artist was born by 1880, all of the artist's works are entered regardless of date. Paintings in oil, watercolor, tempera and pastel are included."

Inventories Web Site
Provides a full description of the inventories, their compilation, and contact information for research assistance.

Inventories Catalog
Accessible online through SIRIS, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System, the standard catalog entry gives the artists' name, title of the work, creation date, medium and support, dimensions, markings, owner, location, provenance, and subject description.

PERIODICAL LITERATURE

19th- & Early 20th-century Sources

Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
"Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals (AAI) is the only online index to art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th century. The 42 journals indexed represent a nearly complete coverage of art journals from this period. Since entire journal contents are indexed -- articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements -- the index is a valuable source of information on popular culture and industry, as well as artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration, and collecting."
The index is also available in a two-volume printed format: Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals by Mary Morris Schmidt (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1999) at Art Reference N6510 .S35 1999.

American Periodicals Series Online
Full-text/full-image for "over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals."

Proquest Historical Newspapers
Provides the full text, including all images and advertisements, of The New York Times and Washington Post up to the most recent 10 years as PDF and text files. Some gaps in coverage.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. Covers 1890 through 1982 including the 65 titles from Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899 and its 1900-1922 supplement.

19th Century Masterfile
Lists almost one million citations to articles in American and British periodicals from the late 18th through early 20th century. Includes citations from Pooles Index to Periodical Literature (available in print form at Neilson Reference Index/1 North AI3.P7 1893), a subject index to about 250 periodicals published from 1802 through 1906 including several art and architecture titles, for example, Artist, Art Journal, Brush and Pencil, The Craftsman, Critic, Architecture, and Architectural Record. Also indexes The New York Times from 1863 to 1905 and The New York Daily Tribune from 1875 to 1906.

Current Literature

America: History and Life
Provides international coverage of all aspects of United States and Canadian history from prehistoric times to the present. Indexes over 2,400 periodicals as well as books and dissertations published from 1953 to the present. Abstracts are provided for most records.

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
These two databases cover all aspects of the visual arts, including 20th-century architecture and design, providing cover to cover indexing of over 400 periodicals published throughout the world. They provide access to articles, exhibition reviews, and reproductions. Art Abstracts covers 1984 to the present, Art Index Retrospective covers 1929 to 1984. Art Abstracts is updated monthly and abstracts are provided for records added after 1994.

ARTbibliographies Modern
ARTbibliographies Modern provides access to information about late 19th- and 20-century fine arts, decorative arts, design, and photography in periodicals (500 regularly indexed, 2000 selectively indexed), dissertations, exhibition catalogues, and books published throughout the world. Covers material published from 1974 to the present.

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
Provides access to literature on the post-classical western visual arts published in over 3,000 periodicals and in books, exhibition catalogues, doctoral dissertations, Festschriften and other collected essays, and conference publications. Incorporates RILA (1975-1989) and volumes for 1973 to 1989 of RAA. Abstracts are provided for most records.

Design and Applied Arts Index: DAAI
Annotated references to almost 100,000 articles, news items, reviews, obituaries, and illustrations published in approximately 450 design and craft periodicals from 1973 to the present. It is international in scope and covers all aspects of design and design history with good coverage of photography.

EXHIBITION RECORDS

Indexes to Collections of Exhibition Catalogs

Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
"136,494 records describing fine art works exhibited in this country and in Canada up through 1876 (the Centennial year). The Catalogue is comprised of information from 1,057 exhibition catalogs, broadsides, newspaper articles, and gallery notices ... [It] does not attempt to duplicate already published exhibition summaries. Therefore, exhibitions held at the American Academy of Fine Arts & American Art Union, Boston Athenaeum, Brooklyn Art Association, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Combined Art Organizations of San Francisco are generally excluded from this online database." (See below for call numbers for those sources.)
The index is also available in print form as The National Museum of American Art's Index to American Art Exhibition Catalogues: From the Beginning through the 1876 Centennial Year by James L. Yarnall (6 vols. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986) at Art Reference N6507.Y363 1986.

Mount Holyoke and Amherst College Reference Z5939.A73 1979
Archives of American Art. Collection of Exhibition Catalogs. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979.

Neilson 506 Am32m 38
Rutledge, Anna Wells, ed. Cumulative Record of Exhibition Catalogues: the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1807-1870; The Society of Artists, 1800-1814; The Artists' Fund Society, 1835-1845. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1955.

Indexes to the Exhibitions of Single Institutions

Art Reference N11.A283 1953
American Academy of Fine Arts. American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union, 1816-1852. By Mary Bartlett Cowdrey. 2 vols. New York: New York Historical Society, 1953.

Art Reference N6510.F34 1990
Art Institute of Chicago. The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1888-1950. Edited by Peter Hastings Falk. Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1990.

Art Reference N6510.B745 1991
Boston Art Club. The Boston Art Club: Exhibition Record, 1873-1909. Compiled and edited by Janice H. Chadbourne, Karl Gabosh, and Charles O. Vogel. Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1991.

Art Reference N7525.P472
Boston Athenaeum. The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index, 1827-1874. Compiled and edited by Robert F. Perkins, Jr. and William J. Gavin III. Boston: The Library of the Boston Athenaeum, 1980.

Art Reference N11.B783 M3 1970
Brooklyn Art Association. A History of the Brooklyn Art Association with an Index of Exhibitions. By Clark S. Marlor. New York: J. F. Carr, 1970.

Art Reference N6510.N493
National Academy of Design. National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860. 2 vols. New York: New York Historical Society, 1943.

Art Reference N6510.N38
National Academy of Design. The National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1861-1900. By Maria Naylor. 2 vols. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1973.

Art Reference N6505.A64 1988
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Edited by Peter Hastings Falk. 3 vols. Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1988-1989.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Barbara Polowy, the instructor for your library session: bpolowy@email.smith.edu, Hillyer Art Library, Room 121, X2941.

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