Art Resources 

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Hello. This guide will introduce you to general Art resources available in The Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University.  It includes information on how to locate:

• Books, Audio & Video Recordings
  
• Journal Articles
• Key Art Information Sources (print & eclectronic)
• Guides to Web Resources
  

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Browse the Shelves:

N 1-9165 Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
NA 1-9428 Architecture
NB 1-1952 Sculpture
NC 1-1940 Drawing. Design. Illustration
ND 25-3416 Painting
NE 1-3002 Print media
NK 1-9955 Decorative arts. Applied arts. Decoration and ornament Including antiques in general
NX 1-820 Arts in general Including works dealing with two or more of the fine arts media, i. e. literature, performing arts, and the visual arts. For works on any one of these subjects, see the subject, e.g., GV, M, N, P, TR
TR 1-1050 Photography

The Ames Library uses Library of Congress Classification.

Use Quicklinks A-Z Journals to access holdings information about specific journal titles at the Ames Library

Use Quicklinks A-Z Databases to access of list of journal databases available at the Ames Library

Key Art Journal Databases:

Art Abstracts:  1983 to Present

Art Index:  1950-1994. Subject-author guide to art journal literature. Located in Ames third floor stacks. N1.A1A78

Arts & Humanities Citation Index:  1980 to Present. Indexes many of the world's key arts and humanities journals.

Humanities Abstracts:  1984 to Present. Indexes English language journals in a variety of areas including art and photography

JStor:  Full-text electronic access to back files of core scholarly journals with image links to ARTstor

The following electronic and print resources provide scholarly information on topics related to Art. Titles with Library of Congress call numbers are located in the Reference Collection on the entry level of The Ames Library.

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art & Artists (Chilvers) 4th ed., 2009

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (Clarke), 2003

Design Encyclopedia (Byars) Ref. NK1370.B93 2004

Focal Encyclopedia of Photography (Zakia/Stroebel), 3rd ed. Ref. TR9 .F6 1993

Grove Dictionary of Art (Turner) Ref. N31.D5 1996

Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecure (Campbell)  Ref. N5610.G76 2007

Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts (Campbell)  Ref. NK28.G76 2006

Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Lenman)  TR9.O94 2005

Oxford Companion to Western Art (Brigstocke), 2003

Oxford Dictionary of American Art & Artists (Morgan), 2007

Oxford Dictionary of Art (Chilvers) 3rd ed., 2004

Oxford Dictionary of 20th c. Art (Chilvers), 2003

Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 2009

American Memory:  Digital images from historical collections of the Library of Congress

Artcyclopedia:  Encyclopedia of museum quality art images from the Web

ARTstor: Repository of digital images from universities and museums worldwide, with article links from JStor

British Library Images:  Online access to images from the British Library collections

Image Collections and Online Art: Links to digital art collections worldwide, hosted by the University of Michigan

National Portrait Gallery:  Digital images of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs from NPG and the Catalog of American Portraits (CAP) collections. 

NYPL Digital Library:  Digital images from collections of the New York Public Library; includes Civil War photos, maps, sheet music cover art

Smithsonian American Art Museum:  Collection and exhibitions provide subject access to over 3000 images