Resources on American Women in the Visual Arts

This is the basic index to journal articles published since 1929 in the field of art. Once you are ready to start looking for articles on your subject, you should always look here first. The full text (but often not the illustrations) of some of these articles is available online back to 1995.

This database provides brief summaries of, and information on where to find, journal articles, books, exhibition catalogues, and other publications on modern and contemporary arts from the late 19th century to the present, and on photography since its invention, published from the late 1960s to the present.

This database tells what has been written about post-classical Western art in books, journal articles, exhibition catalogs, and conference proceedings published throughout the world between 1975 and 2007. (Many publications in foreign languages are listed here, as well as publications in English.)

The successor to BHA, this database provides brief summaries of, and information on where to find, journal articles, books, exhibition catalogues, and other publications published since 2008 on European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.

This database contains more than 2.5 million high-quality digital images that are freely available for educational and research use. Containing reproductions of a wide range of works of art and architecture from all times and places throughout the world, it is an excellent source in which to find images of buildings and works of art created in the United States.

This database provides brief summaries of, and information on where to find, articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Publication dates of the works covered range from the late 19th century to the present.

GenderWatch supports gender and women's studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) research, by providing access to the full text of publications from 1970 to the present from an array of academic, radical, community, and independent presses.

This database provides a collection of primary documents and secondary sources related to U.S. women's history and the history of women's social movements in the United States from 1600-2000.