Visual Arts Librarian
Getting Started
Getting Started
Try looking the artist (picasso, pablo) up as both a subject, and as an author in the Library Catalog, or try the artist as a keyword search (pablo picasso).
To verify the spelling of an artist's name, as well as to find more information in journal articles, consider using the browse function of Art Full Text .
The Union List of Artist Names, or ULAN, is another excellent way to verify the spelling of an artist's name.
Try Oxford Art Online. You will find wonderful articles written by experts on the subject, plus bibliographies of books and articles you can use as a starting point for your research.
Comprehensive Sources
More resources can be found in the Sherman Reference Room
- Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon = International artists database onlineContains information on artists from all over the world and throughout the ages. Articles from all published volumes of the Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon (AKL), plus index data from Thieme-Becker & Vollmer.
- AskART AcademicAn online database containing over 52,000 American artists from the early 16th-Century through the present. Some European artists are now being added.
- Benezit dictionary of artistsSherman Reference - Now included in Oxford Art Online
N40 .B4713 2006 v.1-14 - Bryan's dictionary of painters and engraversSherman Reference
N40 .B94 - Index to artistic biographySherman Reference
N40 .H38 - Oxford art onlineA database of art terminology, encyclopedic entries on artists and works of art, and images.