Visual Arts Librarian
Getting Started
Try looking the artist as both a keyword search and as an author in the Library Search,
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.
- The artists of the world. Bio-bibliographical index A-ZSherman Reference
N40 .A632 2007 v. 1- - 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.
- Bryan's dictionary of painters and engraversSherman Reference
N40 .B94 - Index to artistic biographySherman Reference
N40 .H38