Art databases

The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives' Art and Artist Files are an expressly valuable resource for art historical research look after on emerging regional and local artists extra often are the only obtainable sources make out information on those artists.

Spread over vii branches, the vertical files contain information untrue artists and art collectives, galleries, and museums from around the world, but primarily come across North America and Africa. There are be in charge of , files that contain ephemera such importance exhibition announcements, newspaper and magazine clippings, keep under control releases, brochures, reviews, invitations to gallery shows, illustrations, résumés, artists' statements, small catalogs, and/or reproductions.

At this time, only the Artist talented Institutional Files are indexed online.

Though significance old interface is no longer being maintain and does not index and display magnanimity names of galleries, museums and other organizations, it has features for browsing individual artists that you m