Art Museums and Art

The addresses of the Web sites of regional art museums and art museums in the United States and Europe are listed below. You can take a virtual tour of a specific museum, sample the fine art collection (most museums offer hundreds of high quality images of major art works), browse or order from the gift shop, review the schedule of exhibitions, lectures, or concerts, conduct research with online databases, obtain resource material for art courses, learn the history of the museum, and obtain detailed information on programs for adults and children.

Besides the museum sites, there are literally thousands of high quality Web sites that provide resources for the study or enjoyment of art. A few are listed below that will provide a gateway to many of these sites. Tens of thousands of high quality images of major artworks are available on the Web. They can be found by artist's name, name of the work, period, movement (e.g. Pop Art, Impressionism), medium (for example, sculptors, illustrators), subject (for example, landscape painters), nationality, or gender. Artist biographies are also given. Many university art departments provide material from their art history courses online.

To whet your appetite, www.vggallery.com provides 2,200 of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings, sketches, watercolors, and drawings.

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Art resources

  • Artcyclopedia
    www.artcyclopedia.com
    A fine art search engine. A comprehensive index of artists represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources : 700 leading arts sites, and more than 24,000 links directly to an estimated 80,000 works by 7,000 different artists. Search by artist's name, artworks by title, or art museums by name/place.
  • Art History
    www.huntfor.com/arthistory
    Art history movements - prehistory to after the 50s. This is a commercial site.
  • Artcyclopedia's List of United States Art Museums
    www.artcyclopedia.com/museums-us.html
    Lists the Web sites of major museums in the United States. Indexed by state.
  • Artcyclopedia's Master List of Non-US Art Museums
    www.artcyclopedia.com/museums-int.html
    Lists the Web sites of major museums throughout the world. Indexed by country.
  • CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum
    sunsite.dk/cgfa
    Over 5000 images of paintings by major artists.
  • Distinguished Artist Series of Traditional Fine Arts Online
    www.tfaoi.com/distingu/alvarez.htm
    Over 2,500 deceased American painters, sculptors and photographers of note are indexed in alphabetical order. Links are provided for resources on American artist schools and movements - Early American, Hudson River School, The American Ten, American Expressionism (for example, Mary Cassatt), Marine Paintings and Drawings, Western Painters, Wildlife Painters, and more.
  • The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
    www.vggallery.com
    2,200 of Van Gogh's paintings, sketches, watercolors, and drawings and all of the artist's 864 letters (English translations) are online.
  • Artnet.com
    www.artnet.com/index.asp
    Online Art Net magazine; links to 1,300 member galleries; gallery exhibitions.
  • Online Galleries (Art for sale)
    • Artwork Network
      www.artworknetwork.com
      This Denver-based site launched three years ago to help put new art in local coffee shops and office lobbies; now it offers $650 Western watercolors and $1,360 swirling abstracts by several dozen artists. (Site will ship some pieces framed for an extra fee.)
    • BoundlessGallery
      www.boundlessgallery.com
      Launched in 2005, the site has a roster of 2,000 artists and lets users choose a desired price range, size, color scheme and subject matter of art on offer, from $20 abstracts to $1,000 neo-lmpressionist views of flowers. Click the "View In a Room" feature to see how a painting looks over a 16-foot-long sofa.
    • Heritage Auction Galleries
      www.ha.com
      Not all online art is new: This Dallas-based auctioneer puts all its upcoming "lots" online, including several watercolor-on-ivory miniatures by the great Colonial portraitist Charles Willson Peale (prices range from $16,000 to $64,000).
    • Saatchi Online
      www.saatchi-gallery-co.uk/yourgallery/
      More than 67,000 artists (including 20,000 art students) use this nonprofit site to offer everything from $16 portraits to $TK eerie landscapes to $5,000 abstract paintings. Email "Your Gallery" artists directly to make a sale or browse the new "Saleroom" section to buy using PayPal, which protects purchases up to $2,000.
    • Ugallery
      www.ugallery.com
      This year-old site lightly curates and prices art by students from 122 students at 70 schools like the California Institute of the Arts and the Savannah College of Art and Design. Need inspiration? Search using keywords like "fish and marine life," "comic strip,"

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