Primary sources for creative arts

A major collaborative scholarly venture, this online search platform provides access to a wide range of "digitized resources for the printed literature of art, including fundamental texts, rare books, exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, and related literature."

"Founded at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1954, the Archives of American Art collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States."

Collection documents the recent history of art in Asia, "including the personal archives of significant artists, educators, and art professionals as well as key exhibitions and art spaces." Choose "Online" from the Access Level options on the search page to limit your results to digitized materials.

Prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more from the NYPL's extensive collection

Search the NYPL's vast archives; includes hundreds of thousands of digitized pages.

Search digitized books and archival materials in the Library's collection, including print, audiovisual, and image resources; many open to viewers outside of the Getty. Choose "Available Online" under the Availability options (in the left margin) on search results pages to limit your results to digitized materials.

Search records of museum objects, archives and library materials including images, audio, and videos. Choose the "Digital" tab on search results pages to limit results to digitized materials.

These titles are also available on the Internet Archive, which can be searched via the Open Library.

Digitized materials from the rich scholarly collection of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK

"Harvard Digital Collections provides free, public access to over six million digital objects - from ancient art to modern manuscripts and even audio/visual material."

Selections from Princeton's digital repository. See especially the Marquand Library of Art & Archaeology Collections.

"Gateway to digital reproductions and descriptions of photographs, posters, drawings, objects, ephemera, and manuscripts as well as other archival material from Columbia's rare and special collections."

Digitized materials 'include Metropolitan Museum of Art publications, early printed books, early trade catalogs, exhibition catalogs, decorated publishers’
bindings, Japanese illustrated books, fashion plates and sketches, illustrations, photographs, manuscript documents, current auction catalogs, maps, architectural drawings, and audio recordings."

Collections Include "photoarchive images and documentation, book materials, Frick Collection images, and archival documents."