Compiled by Laura Graveline
©2005 

I often have questions from students, local artists, and art teachers, about free resources on art and artists that are accessible to them on the Internet. There are several sources I use regularly, often to support or supplement subscription resources, and also as a teaching tool when offering instruction sessions to students, to help them understand and utilize the different kinds of information they kind find online. This is just a brief list, and if anyone has a particular website they would like to add, please e-mail me at Laura.Graveline@Dartmouth.edu 

Many thanks to Loree Bourgoin, from the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts for her addition to this list. These resources are accessible on the web, either partially or fully without fees. 

• Art History Resources on the Web
• Art in Context:
  Information about Artists and where to find their work
• Art on Film Online
• ArtSource:
  a gathering point for networked resources on art and architecture
• The Artchive
• The Artcyclopedia:
  Great art online, from over 8,000 famous painters, sculptors and photographers, at art museum sites & image archives worldwide
• Artnet
• AskArt:
  the American Artists Bluebook, extensive information about over 32,000 artists (partially accessible for free)
• The Getty Research Institute
• Google's Image Search
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History
• MOMA's DADABASE
• The Mother of All Art & Art History Links Page
• RedLightGreen:
  RLIN's free access to their book catalog, RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library. Sign in, and you can format and send citations any way you want: MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian.
• Smithsonian Inititution Research & Information System (SIRIS)