Collections of European and/or Asian art:
| National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. |
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
| Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca |
Asia Society, New York |
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Cleveland Museum of Art |
| Art Institute of Chicago< |
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. |
Asian Art Museum, Seattle |
| Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| British Museum, London |
National Gallery, London |
Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
| Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Musée du Louvre, Paris |
Musée Guimet, Paris |
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Uffizi Gallery, Florence |
National Palace Museum, Taipei |
| Palace Museum, Beijing |
Tokyo National Museum |
Kyoto National Museum |
Artist Profiles provides information on the women artists featured in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Most artists (but not all) are European or American, from the Renaissance through the present.
Advancing Women Artists Foundation (AWA) focuses on Florentine and Tuscan women artists from the Renaissance to the present. Though the organization has closed, their website remains as "a digital archive and a resource for those interested in research, restoration and exhibition of art by women in Florence."
Art Herstory, founded by Erika Gaffney (a humanities editor working in academic publishing), provides information on female "Old Masters."
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index, compiled by librarians and scholars, provides information about publications on women in the Middle Ages (except for single-authored books).
Italian Renaissance Learning Resources, a collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and Grove Art Online, supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. "A freely available resource, this site features eight units, each of which explores a different theme in Italian Renaissance art. Researchers and students can explore thematic essays, more than 300 images, 300 glossary items and 42 primary source texts."
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana, an exhibition at the Museo del Prado from October 2019 to February 2020. The website provides information about both artists and links to related multimedia and the catalogue.
The Maria Sibylla Merian Society, an academic site that provides information about Merian's life and work, including sources, research and essays, and links. The Society is an international group made up of artists, historians, and scientists.
Digital Asia, a resource of the H-ASIA network. It includes links to various websites and databases focusing on Asian history, politics, cultures, languages, and societies.
BuddhaNet's Buddhist Studies. This site provides an introduction to several aspects of Buddhism, with sections entitled Basic Buddhism Guide; Buddhist Studies for Primary and Secondary Schools; Online Study Guide; Buddhist History and Culture; and The Buddhist World.
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art, created and maintained by the Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University. Especially valuable for its online exhibitions (not just of Buddhist art) and projects (including the following pages: Buddhist Art of China; and an online searchable database of the images of the Huntington Archive).
Buddhism & Shintōism in Japan: A to Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Sculpture & Art, compiled by Mark Schumacher.
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, prepared by Patricia Buckley Ebrey of the University of Washington. This is a must-see for students of Chinese art history! Topics include Ancient Tombs, Buddhism, Calligraphy, Military Technology, Painting, Homes, Gardens, Clothing and Graphic Arts.
East Asian Scroll Paintings, created and maintained by the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia. This invaluable resource provides high-resolution, scrolling digital images of Chinese and Japanese handscrolls. A bonus: the images are annotated.
Elegant Images of the Brush: Women's Painting in the Late Ming and Early Qing Period, the website for an exhibition of Chinese women's painting held at the National Palace Museum, Taipei, in 2015. The site provides information on several artists and links to some high-resolution digital images.
She & Her: On Women and Their Art in Chinese History, the website for an exhibition held at the National Palace Museum, Taipei, in 2020. The show featured representations of Chinese women by male artists, including some that may date as early as the 8th century, as well as examples of tapestries, calligraphy, and painting by Chinese women from the 12th through 20th centuries. The site provides links to some high-resolution digital images.
Making a Chinese Gongbi Silk Painting, a video posted by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London that demonstrates the technique of painting with ink and color on silk.
Internet Guide for Chinese Studies is a guide to academic websites on China organized according to the Library of Congress classification system; it includes sections on Fine Arts, Literature, Philosophy/Religion, Geography, and Bibliography. Published by the China WWW Virtual Library and maintained at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands, with support from the Institute of Chinese Studies (Heidelberg University), the Berlin State Library, and the German Research Foundation. Thanks to Reference Librarian Michael Hunter for alerting me to this resource.
Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Modern China: Bibliography of Materials in Western Languages, compiled by Paul R. Goldin of the University of Pennsylvania. An invaluable resource, organized alphabetically by author.
Traditions of Exemplary Women (Lienü zhuan), conceived by Anne Behnke Kinney of the University of Virginia and published as part of the Chinese Text Initiative site, provides information about expectations for women in premodern China. The site is somewhat difficult to navigate, but Chinese text is available (for serious linguists) as well as English translations, and some pages are illustrated with premodern Chinese paintings.
JAANUS (Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System), a searchable, on-line dictionary of Japanese architectural and art historical terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent. "This dictionary contains approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868). Terms from related fields such as lacquer, ceramics, textiles and metalwork have been included where they are considered to be of general interest and/or impact on the principal fields of architecture, painting and sculpture."
The award-winning Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages, started and maintained by my old friends (Andrew Midkiff and Patrick Young) at the University of Michigan. A very good general source for all art historians.
Virtual Library Museums Pages, started by Jonathan Bowen. Want to know about the collections and special exhibitions of museums all over the world? Go here first and find their websites.
The HWS Library.
Canvas, the electronic course center for HWS, with a mirror site to this one (but with an online grade book and discussion board).
And, finally, Artstor, an essential database of online images of art and architecture. HWS has an institutional subscription; you can search the digital library without creating an account, but creating an account (allowing you to download images) is free.
Links last checked on 19 January 2024. |