Find Artists

Research Databases

AskArt.com
Images, biographies, auction records, exhibition records, and museum holdings of American and International artists.

Biography Reference Bank
Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present.

Contemporary Artists Index
Indexes approximately 20,000 artists, artists groups, photographers, craftspeople, designers, and design firms whose work appears in group exhibition catalogs added to the Cleveland Art Institute’s Gund Library since 1991, as well as the video periodical Art Today and View, a periodical specializing in artist interviews. The index includes Gund Library call numbers.

Design ProFILES
Comprehensive collection of profiles in design and design-related fields. It provides information about more than 11,000 designers and design-related organizations that were influential in the 20th century world of design, including over 1,000 female designers.

Oxford Art Online
This major art reference source includes Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. New features include Timelines of world art, MOMA lesson plans, and thematic guides.

Oxford Reference, Art and Architecture
Full text reference books on Art and Architecture. Titles include: A Dictionary of Architecture, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, A Dictionary of Modern Design, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. (more…)

Internet Resources on Art & Artists

Art History Resources on the Web
Provides links to images and artists, grouped according to time period. There are also links to research resources and projects.

Artcylopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine (John Malyon, Alberta, Canada)
Thousands of links to artists and their work with introductory biographies for each artist. Includes a handy gateway to museum links worldwide.

Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page
An extensive group of internet art links.

CCAD Catalog
Look up the artist's or designer's last name as a SUBJECT in the library's catalog. To find books written by them, search their name as an AUTHOR.

Local Arts Information

Columbus Dispatch
Columbus Museum of Art
Greater Columbus Arts Council
Ohio Arts Council
Wexner Center for the Arts

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