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Key to Art History

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bulletGeneral Info
bulletUnited States Art Museums
bulletOther Art Museums
bulletImage Collections
bulletPhotography
bulletWomen in Art
bulletAfrican-American Art
bulletHispanic American & Latin American Art
bulletNative American Art
bulletFar Eastern Art
bulletAfrican Art
bulletMiddle Eastern & Islamic Art
bulletMiscellaneous

General Information

bulletArtsNet Minnesota is an educational site that provides thoughtful questions and discussions of individual artist's work and art in general.
bulletThe Getty Information Institute is a general resource for art, vocabulary, images and so forth.
bulletChris Witcombe, Sweet Briar College, Virginia: Art History Resources on the Web is a site that contains hundreds of links relating to nearly every period, style, and nationality in art.
bulletArt on the Web - listings of many art categories with hundreds of links.
bulletWorld Wide Art Resources - links to thousands of art resources, including museums, artists, galleries, education, etc.
bulletArtcyclopedia  

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United States Art Museums

bulletThe National Gallery of Art, Washington
bulletThe National Museum of American Art, Washington
bulletCorcoran Museum of Art, School of Art, Washington
bulletSmithsonian American Art Museum
bulletMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
bulletMuseum of Modern Art, New York
bulletSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
bulletThe Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
bulletDetroit Institute of Art Collections
bulletNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
bulletKemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
bulletHouston Museum of Fine Arts
bulletPortland Art Museum
bulletNorth Carolina Museum of Art
bulletLos Angeles County Museum of Art
bulletSan Diego Museum of Art
bulletCleveland Museum of Art
bulletCincinnati Contemporary Arts Center
bulletMinneapolis Institute of the Arts
bulletFine Arts Museums of San Francisco
bulletHarvard University Art Museums
bulletDallas Museum of Art
bulletArt Institute of Chicago
bulletChicago Museum of Contemporary Art

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Art Museums around the World

bulletMusée du Louvre, Paris
bullet Uffizi, Florence
bulletChristus Rex, Vatican Art Collection
bulletNational Gallery, London
bulletTate Gallery of Modern Art , London
bulletThe Prado, Spain
bulletState Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
bulletThe State Russian Museum
bulletNational Gallery of Art , Czech Republic
bulletThe Finnish National Gallery
bulletNational Gallery of Ireland
bullet Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Belgium
bulletThe Swedish National Museum
bulletNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
bulletMuseum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
bulletNational Gallery of Canada

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Image Collections

bulletThe Webmuseum contains alphabetical listings of artists, periods and a host of other useful information from the Middle Ages to the present time.
bulletCGFA is a site maintained by Carol Jackson that offers biographical material on artists and high quality scans of paintings.
bullet Tigertail Virtual Museum contains image of art from Prehistoric times to the 20th century.
bulletArtchive is a site created by Mark Harden that provides images, history, biographies and various forums on art history and style.

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Photography

bulletMasters of Photography is a growing site that provides excellent scans of important photographers.
bulletThe History of Photography is a text only description of the development of photography from the United Kingdom.

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Women in Art

bulletMore women artists
bulletWomen artists in History

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African-American Art

bullet Smithsonian African-American Artists
bullet Yale University African-American Art Masters
bulletAfrican-American History through the Arts

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Hispanic American and Latin American Art

bullet Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
bulletMexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago
bullet Smithsonian Art of Ancient Mexico

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Native American Art

bulletNative American Art Exhibits
bulletSmithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

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Far Eastern Art

bulletAsian Art Museum of San Francisco
bulletSmithsonian National Museum of Asian Art 
bullet The Art of China
bulletJapanese Art and Architecture, The Web Museum
bulletThe Art of Japan
bulletJapanese Art - Kyoto National Museum
bulletIndian Art

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African Art

bulletArt in Africa
bulletMuseum of African Art, NYC
bullet Harvard University - The Baobab Project
bulletSmithsonian National Museum of African Art

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Middle Eastern & Islamic Art

bulletMichael Carlos Museum, Emory University
bulletOriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago
bulletState Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia,
bulletAncient Middle Eastern Art
bulletIslamic Art and Architecture
bullet Islamic Art, Los Angeles County Museum
bulletIslamic Art, Detroit Institute of Art

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Miscellaneous Resources

bullet The Figure Drawing Lab

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