Art and Art History Department
Location: Ayres Hall 107
Phone: 530-898-5331
Email: art@csuchico.edu
Online Resources
The center provides images to be used for research assignments, course study pages, and lectures. Five computers are available for student access along with scanning stations.
All VRC materials must be used for educational purposes only.
Resources for Writing a Paper
Meriam Library Tips
The Meriam Library has a guide on their website for Art and Art History Resources.
Books about Writing
A Short Guide to Writing about Art by Sylvan Barnet
- Located in the Ira Latour: (reserve) and N7476 B37 2008
- Located in the Meriam Library: 3rd Floor Main Collection - N7476 B37 2000
- ISBN: 9780205886999 (if you will be taking multiple Art History Courses you can buy it used to get a great price. Available at Powell's)
Additional Online Resources
Art Forum - mlott@csuchico.edu for help accessing articles
Art Journal - We have access through the Meriam Library's website, you must be logged in to access articles.
Ceramics Art & Perception - mlott@csuchico.edu for help accessing articles
Communication Arts - mlott@csuchico.edu for help accessing articles
Urban Glass / Glass Quarterly - A lot of Articles available online.
Art Source - Covers a variety of topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, folk art, film, and architecture. Coverage is back to 1928 with over 750 full-text journals, over 200 e-books, and over 63,000 images.
Digital Public Library of America - The DPLA is a collection of holdings from America’s libraries, archives, and museums including photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents and more.
Europeana Collections - A collection of thousands of European archives, libraries and museums which provides over 50 million digitized items – books, music, artwork and more.
Medieval Art Research - A database of Medieval related material for research including societies, image, manuscript, and architectural databases, blogs, as well as other resources.
Modus Arts - A sound-artist collective based in London England with a database of their works online.
Smithsonian Libraries- A collection of databases for Art & Design Research, many available with free access.
African & Asian Visual Artists Archive - A comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by both African and Asian artists working in the UK since the post-war period.
Art Resource - A fully searchable collection of over 1,000,000 fine art images from the world’s leading sources.
BiblioOdyssey - Is a blog containing eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints.
CSU World Image Archive - The CSU IMAGE Project includes images for the art history survey and historical images from a wide variety of fields, including political and cultural history, anthropology, biology, medicine and technology.
FAMSF ImageBase - The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Image Base contains images from the permanent collections of the Legion of Honor and de Young Museums.
Getty Research Institute Images - Includes all types of documents from artists including sketchbooks, drawings & watercolors, rare prints from the 16th through 18th century, 19th century architectural drawings of cultural landmarks, and early photographs of the Middle East and Asia.
Harvard Art Museums - A digital record of with basic information about every object on exhibition at the HAM galleries as well as approximately 81,000 works of art in the HAM collection.
The Library of Congress Flickr Page - The Library of Congress photostream contains historic photograph collections.
Library of Congress Digital Collection - A digital collection of millions of written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that documents the American experience.
Luminous-Lint - Over 2,500 people, estates and institutions have provided information with hundreds of continually improving histories of photography.
The New York Public Library Digital Collection - Offers audio, video, webcasts, images, prints, photographs, poetry, and fiction.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Heibrunn Timeline of Art - The TOAH includes images of works of art, descriptions of work and related thematic essays in an interactive timeline and map.
The Medieval Bestiary - The Medieval Bestiary is an interactive searchable site with links to digital Medieval manuscripts.
Web Gallery of Art - A virtual museum and searchable database of Western European find arts 8th – 19th C.
Glass Reference Database - Reference images of 20th century glass artists categorized by country or time period.
Glass Blower Database - Lists and links to glass blowing professionals around the world.
Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass - An extensive (but not complete) list of artist who specializing in one-of-a-kind signed glass sculpture, each links to their personal websites.
Art Babble - High quality art-related video content from 50 cultural institutions from around the world.
The New York Public Library Digital Collection - The New York Public Library offers audio, video, webcasts, images, prints, photographs, poetry, and fiction.
UbuWeb: Film and Video - A large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material providing access to out of print materials, sound art and video.
Vernissage TV - Vernissage TV takes you to opening receptions (Vernissages) of exhibitions and events. Archived footage of events is indexed by artists names.
Art and Architecture in Video - Online database with 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis.
Art and Art History Department
Location: Ayres Hall 107
Phone: 530-898-5331
Email: art@csuchico.edu