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Artists, Museums and Collections

Millikin University's Birks Museum is noted for its impressive collection of china, ceramics and glassware.Some items date to the 14th century, though most are from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Metropolitan Museum of Art This site has some good imagery and good educational resources. The Online Resources under Educational Resources are extensive and covers a very wide range of topics.

Art Institute of Chicago This is the homepage for the Art Institute. The Education link has a many good resources for teachers and students

The Thinker The aim of this site is the representation of the entire collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Though still being compiled, already displays over 60,000 images. In addition to works on paper and canvas, will include sculpture, furniture and textiles, glass and silver, etc. Includes essays on current exhibits. Can be searched by artist's name and topic terms.

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX.. About the museum and its collections of paintings & sculptures by Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, and other American artists.

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Art History

Art History Resources a collection of links maintained as part of UC Berkeley's Art History-Classics Graduate Service.

Art History Resources on the Web this is a fairly extensive and in depth website maintained by Christopher L.C.E. Whitcombe, art history professor, at Sweetbriar College. It contains some good imagery.

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Art Education

Getty Education site This site is a really good resource for K-12 teachers, that contains lesson plans and curriculum ideas with teacher material included.

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Film

Art on Film Online "is a clearinghouse for information about [over 25,000] film, video, CD-ROM and other interactive productions on fine arts, architecture, photography, decorative arts, and related topics. This Web site is a service of the Program for Art on Film, Inc." Annotated and searchable detailed index. (Chr.H.Ed. 1-16-98) The Program for Art on Film, Inc. was founded by the J.Paul Getty Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of American Art, and is affiliated with the School of Information & Library Science (SILS) at Pratt Institute.

George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film Very extensive collections of photography and film both commercial and art. There are some glaring omissions and women are underrepresented. Still, there is a lot of useable material here.

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Grants

Americans For the Arts "Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With a 40-year record of service, we are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts."

The National Endowment for the Arts This site contains detailed information about federal grants and laws affecting nonprofit organizations.

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Images

Artcyclopedia is a comprehensive source of imagery. Parts of image may be magnified to examine detail and the program adjusts so that it does not appear pixilated.

Art Explorer A site sponsored by the Art Institute of Chicago that allows the user to look up images of work that they own.

Boston University's Guide to Finding Images on the Web This site contains practical information about obtaining images and using them. It has information about where and how to find imagery, how to save and transfer it and how to edit it. Copyright and legal considerations are thoroughly discussed.

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Resources

ArtSource a gathering place for networked information about art.

Librarian's Internet Index, Arts and Humanities page a truly amazing collection of usable websites.

Cornell University, Digital Collection Cornell's very extensive digital collections, some art related, some not

Gallery of Art Research Libraries in California (GARLIC) Pointers to information about art and architecture libraries, faculty, programs and museums.

Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online

Pigments Through the Ages This site has good descriptions of a wide variety of pigments indexed by color.

St. Ambrose University, O'Keefe Library An excellent collection of web resources for art related topics.

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