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Smith College Libraries. Art & Architecture Library Subject Page
Links to online resources covering a wide variety of art and architecture topics.

Smith College Libraries. Find Images
Sources for finding images in print and electronic (licensed and free) sources.

Hillyer Art Library
Contact information for Hillyer staff and information about art library collections and services. Includes a browsing guide to the collections.

• Call numbers of particular interest for material on the human figure in art are:
  N7570 - N7649 (general)
  NB1930 (sculpture)
  NC760 - NC775 (drawing)
  ND1290 - ND1337 (painting)
  NK1550 (design)

General Art Reference

Oxford Art Online (incorporating Grove Art Online)
Includes 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present -- on the art of specific regions, countries, and peoples (United States -- Sculpture, Yoruba), major art movements (Expressionism), media, materials, methods (Photography: Processes & Materials, Lithography), themes and subjects (Nude), and individual artists (Hans Arp, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon). The more than 21,000 artist entries include biographical, critical, and contextual information. Each article is supplemented by a bibliography of major primary and secondary sources and usually includes links to illustrations available on the Internet.

FINDING BOOKS, CATALOGS & OTHER MONOGRAPHS

Five College Library Catalog
Online Tutorials on searching, requesting items from other Five College libraries, renewing books.
The online catalog provides access to the combined library holdings of Smith, Amherst, Hampshire, and Mount Holyoke Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Useful subject terms for finding books and catalogs for SIAMS assignments are:

• Art museums | Museum techniques | Museum Conservation Methods | Museum Exhibits
  Museum labels | Museums -- Collection management
• [artist's name], e.g., Baskin, Leonard | Murakami, Takashi | Neel, Alice
• Human figure in art | Human beings in art | Figure sculpture | Nude in art
• Sculpture | Drawing | Prints -- African | American | French | German, etc. -- [century]
• Prints -- Technique | Dry-point | Lithography | Serigraphy | Etching
• Drawing -- Technique | Drawing -- 20th century -- [country]
• Sculpture -- Technique | Sculpture -- Materials | Bronzes | Marble sculpture | Wood sculpture
• Central America -- Antiquities | Nayarit (Mexico) -- Antiquities

FINDING ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, MAGAZINES & OTHER SOURCES

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
These two databases cover all aspects of the visual arts providing access to articles, exhibition reviews, and reproductions published in over 400 art magazines, journals, and museum newsletters and bulletins published throughout the world. Art Abstracts covers 1984 to the present, Art Index Retrospective covers 1929 to 1984.

ARTbibliographies Modern
Provides access to information about late 19th- through 21st-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 1974 to the present. Abstracts are provided for all records.

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, selected art dealers' catalogues, and conference publications from 1973 to the present.

MUSEUM INFORMATION

Museum Publications in the Five College Library Collections

Use these subject headings in the Five College Library Catalog to find museum publications:

• Collection Catalogs
  [museum name]--Catalogs
  For example: Smith College. Museum of Art -- Catalogs
  Metropolitan Museum Of Art (New York N. Y.) -- Catalogs
• Exhibition Catalogs
  [museum name] -- Exhibitions
  For example: Smith College. Museum of Art -- Exhibitions
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- Exhibitions
• Annual reports, journals, bulletins & other periodicals
  [museum name]--Periodicals
  For example: Worcester Art Museum -- Periodicals
  Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Periodicals

Online Resources for Museum Information

Metasites

• WWW Virtual Library: Museums Page - 1994 to present. Sponsored by the International Council of Museums.
• Yahoo: Arts Museums, Galleries, Centers

Local

• Smith College Museum of Art. Permanent Collection
• Five College Museum/Historic Deerfield Database

Websites for SIAMS Field Trip Destinations

Worcester & Providence Trip (6.19)

• Worcester Art Museum. Collection. Exhibitions.
• Rhode Island School of Design Museum. The Collection. Exhibitions.

New York Trip (6.25-6.28)

• Christies
• DC Moore Gallery
• Drawing Center. Current Exhibitions.
• Guggenheim Museum. The Collection. Exhibitions.
• Janet Borden Inc.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Collection Database. Special Exhibitions.
• New Museum. Exhibitions.
• Studio Museum in Harlem
• Dia Beacon. Collection. Exhibitions.

Boston, Salem & Fitchburg Trip (7.1-7.2)

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Collection. Exhibitions.
• Museum of Fine Arts. Collections. Exhibitions.
• Peabody Essex Museum. Collections. Exhibitions.
• Fitchburg Art Museum

Hartford & New Haven Trip (7.10)

• Wadsworth Atheneum. Permanent Collection. Exhibitions.
• Yale University Art Gallery. Permanent Collection. Collection Catalog. Exhibitions.
• Yale Center for British Art. Collections. Exhibitions.

Williamstown & North Adams Trip (7.17)

• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Collections. Exhibitions.
• MASS MoCA. In the Galleries.
• Williams College Museum of Art. Collections. Exhibitions.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

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

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