Art - Museums and Galleries

View art works and interpretations from the Getty's permanent collections of European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs, or from the special exhibits.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

http://www.lacma.org

Click on an artist's name or a collection name to find thumbnails of artworks on display in the museum.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org

Interactive tours, podcasts, and a description of the museum's collections.

National Gallery of Art

http://www.nga.gov/home.htm

Search by artist, title, subject or by a combination of criteria for data on over 100,000 objects in the National Gallery's collection. Or take one of the on-line tours for an in-depth look at the museum's collections of painting, sculpture, and graphic arts. "Exploring Themes in American Art" is a wonderful teaching resource.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org

Exhibition schedules, podcasts, and a collections overview.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - ArtScope

http://www.sfmoma.org/projects/artscope

"A visual browsing tool that allows you to explore more than 3,500 artworks."

Smithsonian American Art Museum

americanart.si.edu/collections/search

Browse over 8,000 digitized works from the collection of American art (searchable by artist's name or by category) or visit the online versions of past and present exhibitions.

Smithsonian Institution

http://www.si.edu

The Institution's museums, galleries, and research facilities contain over 140 million objects and artifacts. Featured here are online exhibits, access to the collections by subject, and visitor information.

International:

The British Museum - Highlights

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights.aspx

Search the British Museum's database of roughly 4,000 objects for images, descriptions and interpretations/histories of the pieces or take a guided tour of some of the museum's special exhibits.

Louvre Museum Official Website

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en

Visit the collections section of this web site for images from the galleries and accompanying in-depth commentary on these major works of art. Also offered is a history of the palace and museum, along with hours, admissions, etc. Much of the site information is available in English, French, Japanese, and Spanish, but certain features are available in French only.

Museo Nacional del Prado

http://www.museodelprado.es/en/

Offers a searchable online gallery and exhibition information.

National Portrait Gallery

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp

Search here by sitter, artist, or name of portrait for likenesses of famous British men and women.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

http://www.rijksmuseum.nl

Podcasts, collection overviews, and a selection of web exhibitions (listed as "webspecials").

The State Hermitage Museum

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html

Visitors can embark on a virtual visit, explore a "virtual academy," or consult the Query By Image Content (QBIC) to search for a particular piece of art.

The Tate

http://www.tate.org.uk

Browse the collection, listen to podcasts, and learn online by exploring educational videos.

Virtual Museums/Galleries:

The American Museum of Photography

http://www.photographymuseum.com

Offers a large selection of online photography exhibits and a research area.

Virtual Museum of Canada

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/index_flashFT.html

A digital collection of objects held by Canadian museums.

The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts

http://web-japan.org/museum/menu.html

Fine arts, crafts, and more. Created for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

Museum of Online Museums

http://www.coudal.com/moom

A directory of online collections, digital exhibits, and online museums.

Vincent Van Gogh Gallery

http://www.vggallery.com/index.html

A collection of Van Gogh's paintings, drawings, and watercolors. Also includes transcriptions of the artist's letters.

WebMuseum

http://www.ibiblio.org/louvre

A well-organized collection of international art.

Digital Exhibits and Archives:

Book/Shelf

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/bookshelf/

Companion to an exhibit of modern art in the shape of books, which are "difficult to categorize. ... The works presented here use a variety of techniques -- photography, film printing, assemblage, drawing, and sound recording." View highlights of works by artists such as Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, and Brian Belott. From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Site requires the Flash 8 plug-in or higher and the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/awia/home.html

This exhibit "explores the lives of women -- writers, artists, publishers, performers, collaborators, and community builders -- whose energies set in motion lasting aesthetic and cultural practices. The women portrayed here lived primarily in the late-nineteenth through the mid- twentieth centuries." Features essays on the Chicago Renaissance, expatriates, Harlem Renaissance, New York, and the southwest and associated annotated images (also viewable by name or profession). From the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration

http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/PicturingWords/PW_explore.htm

"Explore the power of pictures through these examples from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries’ collections in science, history, and art."

Rossetti Archive

http://www.rossettiarchive.org

Includes digital images of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's works (manuscripts, proofs, and original editions, drawings, paintings, and designs). Searchable and includes a bibliography.

A Woman's work is Never Done

http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/intro.htm

"This exhibition brings together a selection of images from the [American Antiquarian] Society's collections that illustrate many facets of American women's work, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution."

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