Art Education
- Art History Teaching Resources AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities.
- Art History in CREDO Reference CollectionYou must be authenticated as a St. Mary's user in order to use the full-text resources in CREDO.
Art Books in the Library
Art : over 2,500 works from cave to contemporaryCall Number: NX440.A785 2008Publication Date: 2008Print
Other Notable Books
Videos and Podcasts
A special thanks to Prof. Christina Ramsey for links and content notes.
- Whitney Museum of American ArtWatch and listen to current and archival videos and audio of art exhibited at the museum
- San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe Artists & Artworks page includes interviews and ways to explore the collection
- The National Gallery - LondonExplore the National Gallery in London through film and podcasts – get a fresh perspective from specialist staff, influential commentators and contemporary artists
- The National Gallery of Art - Washington D.C.Listen to and/or watch lectures and conversations with artists from the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Art on the Web
A special thanks to Prof. Christina Ramsey for many of these links and content notes.
- Digital Resources: Kennedy CenterDigital resources for teaching the Fine Arts from the world renown Kennedy Center. Formerly known as ArtsEdge.
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryMetropolitan Museum of Art website with information on events and issues that affected artists and art movements.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art ImagesNearly 400,000 works of art from the museum's vast collections - available freely for educational use. Good source for Picasso images - especially drawings.
- Google Art ProjectExplore 17 museums from around the world with hundreds of artworks photographed in extremely high resolution. Uses same technology as Google Maps street view, so you feel like you are actually walking through the galleries.
- Art CyclopediaCommercially sponsored website with advertisement but has very useful information about artists, museums, art movements, etc.
- Art Images for College TeachingSponsored by the University of Michigan, it is an open access, free-use art image web site to make images available to students and teachers for use in an educational setting.
- Traditional Fine Arts AssociationNon-profit arts organization. Provides publications and studies, a national calendar of exhibitions, grant programs for museums and a resource library.
- Artstor Open CollectionOpen Access Collections from primarily academic institutions
Art History on the Web
A special thanks to Prof. Christina Ramsey for many of these links and content notes.
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryMetropolitan Museum of Art website with information on events and issues that affected artists and art movements.
- Art History Resources on the WebWeb site created and maintained by art historian Chris Witcombe
- Vincent Van Gogh - The LettersWeb site created by the Van Gogh Museum, which gives digital access to all of Van Gogh's letters.
- Italian Renaissance Learning ResourcesThe National Gallery of Art and Grove Art Online collaborated to make this collection of essays and images covering all aspects of Italian Renaissance art.