ARTH101: Art Appreciation

Art Resources

• ART 21: Includes interviews with major contemporary artists, studio visits and explanations of their work
  
• Google Images: A comprehensive search engine for images
  
• Artcyclopedia: Good general art site, mostly image links to museums:
  
• Artchive: Great link with alphabetical listing of artists, mostly contemporary and historical European
  
• Art History Links: An amazing collection of links specific to sites related to the practice of art history, many are written, not visual, information
  
• Cities and Buildings Collection: Over 5000 architectural images maintained by the architecture department at the University of Washington
  
• Web Gallery of Art: Good reference for lots of art history images
  
• Saatchi Gallery, London: Cutting edge contemporary art, plus a site where any artist can post their work
  
• The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: The United States' national art museum
  
• Seattle Art Museum
  
• Museum of Modern Art New York: A treasure trove of modern art
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Extensive collection database from many cultures and time periods
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An extensive digital collection with text information
  
• Currier Museum of Art: A smaller museum in Manchester, NH with a fantastic collection, much of it online
• National Galleries of Scotland: Extensive collection of artwork from many cultures and time periods
• smarthistory: A free and open not-for-profit art history textbook
  
• Tibetan Book of the Dead: A book from the University of Virginia Library
• Arcspace: Lots of architecture resources from the Danish Architecture Center
• Burke Museum: Artwork database from the collections of the University of Washington
• Bradshaw Foundation: Excellent source for images and information on prehistoric and ancient art
• The Art Story: Pieces on movements, artists, theory, and the progression of art history