WorldCat searches thousands of libraries around the world simultaneously, then checks to see if something is found in a library near your location.

Melvyl The online catalog of the University of California libraries.

CalCat searches hundreds of California libraries, then checks to see if what you're looking for is in a library near your location.

To find journal, magazine, or newspaper articles related to art, art history, and architecture, the following article databases are recommended:

ARTbibliographies Modern. Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Full coverage begins in 1974 when the first volume was digitised, but entries date back to the late 1960s.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index. A citation database with coverage for the arts and humanities, from 1980 to the present.

Bibliography of the History of Art. The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its Web site. The databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.

OmniFile FT. Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

Academic OneFile indexes nearly 13,000 academic journals, magazines, newspapers, and reference sources, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals and more than 5,000 in full-text (HTML and PDF). Coverage is multidisciplinary, including the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, theology, literature, and other subjects

Project MUSE. Full-text access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and other presses. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.

JSTOR. Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies by journal title, generally to within a few years of current publication.

Use Dissertations and Theses (Proquest) to search for doctoral dissertations or Masters-level theses on your topic.

If you need high quality digital images of works of art, the following resources should be your first stop.

Art Museum Image Gallery

Oxford Art Online

 

Art Images for College Teaching (University of Michigan Library)

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community. The AICT site is maintained and distributed under the general auspices of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD).

Web Gallery of Art 

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 29.000 reproductions. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available. Guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and other services are provided.

VADS Online Resource for Visual Arts 

VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 12 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.

Art Resource 

Art Resource, the world’s largest photo archive of fine art, offers a range of material from prehistoric times to the present.  We carry the works of almost every major museum in Europe, and function as the official rights and permissions representative for many institutions in the United States and abroad.

Archives of American Art

The world’s pre-eminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America. The images collection includes photographic images of artists, exhibition installations, manuscripts, and events.

Getty Research Portal - An online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain, including rare books and related literature, plus historical auction sales catalogs.

Google Art Project 

Over 1000 artworks featured from 17 museums, including Palace of Versailles in France, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Virtual gallery tours for 400 rooms using Google Street View technology. Each of the museums allowed one artwork to be photographed with extremely high-resolution "gigapixel" technology.

In the Library

Also, browse call numbers 709-759 (Art) and 779 (Photography) in the 2nd floor stacks and the 3rd floor oversize section of the Library for books that include reproductions.

Another idea for finding images online is to visit the website of the musuem or gallery that the original piece is housed.  Many have been adding high-quality digital images of their collections to their websites.  As always, be aware of copyright restrictions.

Biography in Context (Gale)

Biography Reference Bank (EBSCO)

Oxford Art Online

Art Now: The New Directory to 136 International Contemporary Artists. (Ref 709.22 G912)

Contemporary Artists.
(Ref 709.22 Em11b) 5th ed. Detroit: St. James, 2002.

Contemporary Photographers.
(Ref 770.922 W168a) Detroit: St. James, 1995.

Contemporary Women Artists.
(Ref 709.22 H559) Farmington Hills, MI: St. James, 1999.

Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists.
(Ref 700.92 C912a) 6th ed. New York: St. Martin, 1994.

Dictionary of Women Artist. (Ref 709.22 G858)

Great Women Masters of Art. (Ref 709.22 V689)

Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. (Ref 709.22 F460) 2nd ed. Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1983.

North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century.
(Ref 709.22 H367) New York: Garland, 1995.

St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists: Profiles of Latino and Latin American Artists.
(Ref 704.0368 R448) Detroit: St. James, 2002.

Who's Who in American Art. (older eds)
(Ref 927 W620) New York: Bowker. Biennial.

Women Artists's of Color. (Ref 709.22 F249)