CONTACT
Allison J. Cywin(508) 999-8701. Or e-mail acywin@umassd.edu.
LOCATION & HOURS
Group VI, Level 2L, Room 253. Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 4:30.
Please note: Hours are subject to change due to meetings, and lab work. Please call ahead.
Art Resource Links
Web Databases & Resources
VRC has assembled a collection of database links related to the visual arts. Many of the links provide immediate access to the collection or image database. Please remember most images are not on the web, so if you need help contact Allison Cywin, Visual Resource Curator or Linda Zieper, Art Reference Librarian.
Art, Design, & Architecture - (Categories)
virtual database | museum databases | architecture | art history | artisanry | ceramics | textiles | digital media | graphics design | photograph & film | image stock housesPlease help VRC expand this list by submitting your favorite database link to the Visual Resource Curator. Thanks!
Virtual Digital Collections (top)
- 250-plus-Killer Digital Libraries and Archives
- AskArt
- Art Net - Contemporary Artist
- Art Daily.Org
- CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum
- Directory to Museums Online
- NOTCOT
- The-Artist.Org
- US Art Museums
- Web Gallery of Art
- WorldImages Kiosk
- World Wide Arts Resources / Absolute Arts.com
- Art 21
Museum/Libraries Digital Collections (top)
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
- Australia National University
- Brigham Young University
- British Museum (international)
- Brooklyn Museum
- Carnegie Museum
- Cincinatti Art Museum
- Clevland Museum of Art
- Cornell University Digital Collections
- Contemporary Art of Cincinnati
- Cooper Hewitt: National Design Museum
- Corcoran Museum, Washington
- Dallas Museum of Art
- Denver Art Museum
- Detroit Institute for Art
- Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- Five Colleges, Amherst Massachusetts
- Frick Musuem
- Guggenheim Museum
- J Paul Getty Museum
- State Hermitage Museum
- Los Angeles Museum County Museum of Art
- Kyoto National Museum
- Musee du Louvre
- Library of Congress
- Massachusetts Board of Library Commissions - Digital Collections
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Musee d'Orsay
- Museum of Fine Art (Boston)
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Musuems of Florence
- Musuem of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
- Prado Museum
- National Gallery of Art, United States
- National Gallery London
- National Gallery of Scotland
- National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- National Portrait Gallery Britain
- Norton Simon Museum
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Rice Gallery
- Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art
- Smithsonian Museums
- Smithsonian American Art
- SIRIS Smithsonian American Archives
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Tate Gallery
- Tokyo National Museum
- Uffizi Gallery
- University of Virginia Digital Collections
- University of Washington - Digital Collections
- University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
- University of Maryland Digital Collections
- Vatican Museums
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Yale Center for British Art
- Yale Digital Collections
Areas of Study
Architecture (top)
- ArcSpace
- Archnet International images
- Art and Architecture of Mexico
- Earthship Biotecture
- The Great Buildings Collection
- Historic American Building Survey
- Mary Ann Sullivan Bluffton University
- Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange Project
- University of Berkley Architectural Database
- University of Virginia
Art History (top)
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- Art Images for College Education
- Art Libraries Society of North America
- Artcyclopedia
- Art History - Art Galleries by State
- ArtServe - Austrail National University
- The Associations of Art Museum Curators
- International Council for Museums
- Asia Contemporary Art
- American Council for Southern Asian Art Color Slide Project
- Library of Congress Teaching Resource
- Library of University of California Images
- Resources in Art History for Graduate Students (GREAT!)
- University of College for the Creative Art - Visual Arts Data Service
Artisanry (top)
- American Craft Council
- Craft and Folk Art Museum
- Design Museum
- Digital Archive for Decorative Arts
- International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art
- Houston Center for Contemporary Art
- Mingei International Museum
- Mint Museum of Art
- Museum of Art and Design, New York
- Museum of Contemporary Craft
- Museum of Craft and Folk Art
- Museum of Glass
- Racine Art Museum
- Society of Contemporary Craft
- Society of Art & Crafts
- Worcester Craft Center
Ceramics (top)
- Alfred Unversity Ceramic Library
- Klup Ceramics - Artist works
- Fire and Earth
- Islamic Ceramic Museum
- Gardiner Museum (Canada) (Ceramics)
- Museum of Modern Ceramic Art - Who's Who Japanese Ceramic Artists
- Schein Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art (Alfred University)
Textiles (top)
- Fiber Art Center
- Fabric Workshop and Museum
- Nehelenia Designs/Historical Clothing
- Textile Society of America
- Wayne State University (western dresses from different decades)
Visual Design
Digital Media (top)
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery - New Media and Digital Art Links
- Ars Electronica Center
- CACHE
- Database of Virtual Art
- Digital Art Museum
- Internet Archive
- ISEA Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
- Post Video Art
- Switch 22
- Thailand New Media Art Festival
- Video Data Bank
- ASIFA Hollywood
- List of Japanese Animation on U.S. television
- Society for Animation Studies
Graphic Design/Letterform (top)
- AIGA design archives
- Chicago Design Archive
- Fortune Covers
- Unseen Hands; Women Printers, Designers and Book Designers
- Phillip Meggs History of Graphic Design, 4th Editor, Instructor Companion Site
- Yale Art Book Collection
- Chronology of Animation
- Association of International of Film Animation
Photography and Film (top)
- American Museum of Photography
- American Society of Media Photographers
- California Digital Library (general image)
- Center for Creative Photography
- Cinematic Terms A Film-Making Glossary
- George Eastman House International Museum
- International Center of Photography
- Historic Photographs from 42 collecting institution in Pennsylvania
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
- Library of Congress Photographic Collections
- New York Public Library
- Photo Central (.com)
- PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography
- Photocollect Virtual Photography Gallery (.com)
- Vintage Works Fine Photography(.com)
