Center for American Studies


Resources

Arts

  • Web Resources for American Art
    Provided by the Association of Historians of American Art, this directory of websites gives access to resources on American Art before 1945.

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art
    Visit the Timeline section and the collection database to access the collections of American decorative arts, paintings, sculptures and essays.

  • Picturing America Home Page
    A collection of reproductions of American art documenting American history and culture.

  • American | The Art Institute of Chicago
    Contains collections of American art from the 17th century to the present including paintings, sculptures and decorative art objects.

  • NGA - American Painting
    Gives access to eleven collections and in-depth studies about American painting throughout history.

  • nga Exploring Themes in American Art
    A digital collection consisiting of ten essays that come with pictures of paintings, biographies of artists and a glossary which document ten different themes of American Art.

  • Archives of American Art
    From the Smithsonian Institution, a collection of over 16 million primary source materials consisting of diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, films, audio recordings, video recordings, and other artifacts documenting American culture for the past 200-plus years.

 

 

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