Art History
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Maintained by Chris Witcombe Professor, Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
photography (e.g. Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz, and Cindy Sherman)
decorative arts (e.g. Carl Fabergé, René Lalique, and Louis Comfort Tiffany)
installation art (e.g. Dan Flavin and Ed Kienholz)
video, digital and web-based art (e.g. Jenny Holzer, Bill Viola, and Nam June Paik)
naïve art/folk art/outsider art (e.g. Edward Hicks and Grandma Moses)
architecture (e.g. Frank Lloyd Wright and Andrea Palladio)
Birds of North America
http://nature.gardenweb.com/birds/
digitized images of the works by John James Audubon.
Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/index.shtml
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
http://www.metmuseum.org/
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
http://www.mfah.org
Museum of Modern Art, The
http://www.moma.org/
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/
Olga's Gallery
http://www.abcgallery.com/index.html
Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/guides/trp.htm
The American Philosophical Society Library (APS) collections contain over 500 sketches, watercolors, and oils made by Titian Ramsay Peale from about 1817 to the end of his life. The following is a nearly comprehensive inventory of sketches from the T. R. Peale Collection, arranged in roughly chronological order, as originally calendared at the library. A few sketches done by other artists, but collected by Peale, are included. A selective subject index to the images is also available.
Vatican Museums
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/0-Musei.html
Web Gallery of Art
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/welcome.html
The Web Gallery of Art contains over 12,100 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures are commented and biographies of the significant artists are given. Contains search engine, guided tours.
A. Pintura, Art Detective. http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/ Outstanding, clever, and stimulating site using a Dashiell Hammett detective style to explore art in some depth.
Albright-Knox Art Games.
http://www.kids.albrightknox.org
This interactive site engages children in art activities that help them to learn about artists and the works of art in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Requires Flash.
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American Treasures.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
Divided into three main areas: Memory, Reason, and Imagination, with approximately twenty items in each, this site is exceptionally rich. It is to be a continuously updated exhibit at the Library of Congress. - http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html
Provides a learning environment for exploring the world of art. Includes bibliographies of art books, exhibits of kids’ art from different parts of the world, and facts about famous artists. - Carving at Skidegate.
http://www.Spruceroots.org/PoleSite/Haida.html
Photographs and text indicate the elaborate nature of totem pole carving. - The Imagination Factory.
http://www.kid-at-art.com
This site provides art activities using recycled materials. Ideas and clear directions can be found for painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, fiber arts, and crafts from recycled media. - Inside Art.
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html
What if you were trapped inside a painting and had to solve a mystery to get out? An adventure inside art history. - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
http://www.metmuseum.org/htmlfile/education/kid.html
The page for young people includes family guides, museum hunts, and art games. Features special sections on artists such as Winslow Homer. - Origami.
http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/
Clear instructions and elegant models in the traditional Japanese art of paper folding from Joseph Wu in Japan. Contains links to many other origami sites, including “How to Make an Origami Crane.” - Oriland.
http://www.oriland.com
This extensive site offers an origami world to explore, an opportunity to design cities with fold paper models, basic techniques and tips, and a studio with clear directions for folding more than 70 forms, as well as poetry and games. - Travel to Oriland.
http://library.thinkquest.org/27152
Join the fold and journey to Oriland, a vast world of origami people, forests and castles created by a Thinkquest team from Russia. - World Wide Art Gallery.
http://www.theartgallery.com.au/kidsart.html
See examples of art done by children from around the world, and connect to links of art activities and information about art and art history.
Photography
American Museum of Photography
Cal Photo Digital Library Project
University of California, Berkeley; Thousands of Photos of Plants, Animals, People and Landscapes
Krohn Photo - Photographs from around the World
What Makes a Great Photograph?