From the Smithsonian, an extensive collection of images and background material on American art.

A site intended to showcase video art content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives. Includes video of extant art, of artists, and for art teaching.

Links to online collections of museums, searchable by artist and specific works.

The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of Atla and the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) is a collection of digital resources contributed by member libraries. The creation of CDRI in 2003 was made possible by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The CDRI collections provide access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography. Its coverage focus includes ancient Near East; missions; world religion; and more. We are thrilled to give this collection a new home with improved appearance, stability, and usability.

The University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography houses the archives of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, and other great twentieth-century photographers. Thousands of photographs are available for online study.

Access to primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States; from the International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts/Houston.

Fashion history, modern and historical, as covered in the Fashion Museum and in the Victoria and Albert.

This research portal pulls up digitized art history texts from a range of museums & libraries, including modern open access texts, rare books

Visit selected museums via virtual panorama shots and view “featured artworks at high resolution” and “zoom into paintings.”

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "... pairs essays and works of art with chronologies..."

Access to digitized materials from the libraries of Europe.

Descriptive database covering large sections of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For each item, may include photos and information such as Gallery label, additional views, provenance, exhibition history, references.

MetPublications is a portal to the Met’s publishing program. This resource will eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals published by the Metropolitan Museum, including online publications. Current titles may be previewed and fully searched online, with a link to purchase the book. The full contents of out of print titles may be read online, searched, or downloaded as a PDF, at no cost.

A joint project of Brown University and the University of Tulsa to make "primary source material from 1890 to 1922 freely available for scholars and students of modernism."

Sponsored by the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.

List of museums with online presences.

Repository of digital images from the collections of the National Gallery of Art.

Worldwide collection of digitized images from NYPL. Medieval Manuscripts, Scientific/Botanical/Engineering, Africana and Black History, Americana, the Middle East, Cars & Trucks, Native American portraiture, Postcards, Theatre, Sports, Hebrew manuscripts, Interior Design, Baseball, early photos of Asia and the Pacific Rim, Maps, Civil War Medical care and many more

Information about the provenance of Smithsonian artifacts and about how to do provenance research.

Online database of digital images of paintings, drawings and prints held in the collections of the Royal Society, UK. “Drawings, sketches and paintings from the Royal Society’s archive collections, including botanical studies, microscopical observations, anatomical drawings, engineering plans, travel documentary photography…Images of rare published plates from the16th to 19th century, hand-picked from our extensive library of printed books and journals.”

Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Started by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. a multi-media survey of art history web-book. Audios and videos about works of art found in standard art history survey texts, organized the files stylistically and chronologically, and text and still images.

A guide to help students develop first and second year humanities writing skills. By Joseph M. Williams and Lawrence McEnerney, at the University of Chicago.