Index & abstracts of major journals in art, architecture, film, graphic arts, and related areas. Links to some full text where available.

Browse or search to find information on over 8,000 renowned artists.

A collection of digital images of art, architecture and design from a number of books (notably art history survey texts), museums, archives, and slide collections.

The ARTstor Collection currently contains approximately 500,000 images. The Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. (from pub blurb)

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iLink, the online catalog for Cowles and Drake Law Libraries.

CREDO Reference contains a variety of reference sources in subjects ranging from Art to History to Law to Technology and almost everything in between. It is a portal to a multitude of highly regarded reference sources, drawing on 244 titles by 55 publishers and providing access to tens of thousands of images and audio clips. At a loss for a paper topic? Search the Concept Map for ideas.

"Recognized by international art critics as a world-class museum in the heart of the Midwest, the Des Moines Art Center has amassed an important collection with a major emphasis on contemporary art. The collection’s overriding principle is a representation of artists of the 19th and 20th century, each through a seminal work. This accounts for an impressive collection that ranges from Edward Hopper’s Automat to Jasper Johns’ Tennyson, Henri Matisse’s Woman in White, Georgia O’Keeffe’s From the Lake No. 1, and Francis Bacon’s Study after Velásquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X.

The Art Center’s physical complex marries with the collection for a totally integrated experience. The collection is housed in three major buildings; each designed by a world-renowned architect – Eliel Saarinen, I. M. Pei, and Richard Meier.

The Art Center extends its scope with Des Moines Art Center Downtown, an urban exhibition space and Museum Shop in the heart of downtown Des Moines."

Cowles Library's special collection of handmade and artists' books will be part of 'The Book in Time and Place: A Selection of Artist Books from The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and Drake Universities Cowles Library' exhibition that runs from September 11, 2009 to October 9, 2009 in the Anderson Gallery on the Drake University campus.

The Veil, by Julie Chen. Cowles Library Special Collections.

For more information: http://www.drake.edu/news/db/official/archive.php?article=4677

Access over 100 standard Gale Reference works online! Includes reference materials in the subject areas of: Arts, Business, Education, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, and Social Science.

Available on-line through Oxford Reference Online this reference work covers "thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures."

"In formation since 1931, Joslyn Art Museum's collection now contains more than 11,000 works of art from all over the world, antiquity to the present, with a concentration on 19th and 20th century European and American art. Highlights of the permanent collection include works by Lorenzo di Credi, Titian, El Greco, Veronese, Claude de Lorrain, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre August Renoir, and Camille Pissarro. American masters such as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, John Steuart Curry, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Dale Chihuly, and George Segal are also represented."

Magnum Photos International, Inc., the photographic cooperative responsible for some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, has partnered with the ARTstor database to provide access to over 73,000 high-quality photographs.

Of interest to those conducting research in a variety of disciplines, these photographic records of pivotal events and people constitute a very exciting addition to the existing ARTstor collections.