Research Guides: ARH &amp; ARS: Art and Architecture: Articles & Databases

Articles & Databases

Art & Architecture ePortal (A&AePortal) This link opens in a new window
Art and architectural history scholarship from some of the world's finest publishers and museums.
Artifex This link opens in a new window
Collection of digital catalogues raisonnés for contemporary artists; continuously updated.
ARTbibliographies Modern [ProQuest] 1974+ This link opens in a new window
Covers late 19th- through 21st-century fine arts, decorative arts, design, and photography in periodicals, dissertations, exhibition catalogs, and books published throughout the world.

Interaction of Color (eBook/A&AePortal) This link opens in a new window
A handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students that presents Josef Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation. Included in the Art & Architecture ePortal database.
Rhizome 1996+ This link opens in a new window
An online discussion forum, exhibition venue, bulletin board, and calendar on new art media technologies and Internet culture.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: Volumes I and II [Alexander Street] This link opens in a new window
Full-text adult comic books & graphic novels, plus interviews, criticism & articles that document this genre.

Architectural Digest Archive [EBSCO] 1922-2011 This link opens in a new window
Full text archive, 1922-2011.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals [EBSCO] 1930s+ This link opens in a new window
International coverage of architecture, architectural sculpture, city planning, and landscape architecture in 1,000 periodicals. Selective coverage back to the 1860s.
Art & Architecture Archive 19th-20th century [ProQuest] This link opens in a new window
Full text archive of 19th-21st century magazines on fine & decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design & photography.
Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Information on 20,000 Renaissance works of art documenting 10,000 antique monuments, with 30,000 photographs. Links Renaissance sources with the antique works they document, their locations, dates, names, and modern bibliographical citations
Royal Institute of British Architects British Architectural Library Catalogue 1986+ This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles in 300 journals as well as books, drawings, photographs, manuscript and archival materials in the library collection on all aspects of architecture.

Design and Applied Arts Index [ProQuest] 1973+ This link opens in a new window
Extensive index to articles, reviews, & illustrations in 500 design and craft periodicals. Covers graphic, industrial, interior, fashion, textile, theater, and multimedia design, architecture, and design management worldwide.
Trade Catalogues and the American Home [AM Digital] This link opens in a new window
Trade catalogs, cards & marketing ephemera documenting product design; architecture & interior design; business, economics & retail history; fashion & beauty; gender & domesticity; women as consumers; domestic technology & labor-saving devices; transportation; leisure; health & sanitation; etc.
AHRnet : Art History Research This link opens in a new window
Indexes major 20th century design and applied arts periodicals. Includes biographical dictionary of designers; and full text access to selected 19th and early 20th century decorative and fine arts journals.
Smithsonian I: Worlds Fairs and Expositions [Gale] 1840-1940 This link opens in a new window
Primary source documents on major expositions. Covers architecture, fine & decorative arts, technology, industrial design, science, entertainment, urban planning, manufacturing, cultural history, etc.

Vogue Archive [ProQuest] 1892+ This link opens in a new window
Entire run of the US edition, showcasing the work of the greatest designers, photographers, stylists & illustrators of the 20th & 21st centuries. Up until the 1920s, the focus was on society, not fashion.
Harper's Bazaar Archive [ProQuest] 1867+ This link opens in a new window
Fully searchable, including every advertisement; chronicles the work of world-renowned designers, models, photographers, stylists & illustrators. Useful for topics in women’s studies, material culture, design, fashion, marketing, advertising, etc.
Women's Wear Daily Archive [ProQuest] This link opens in a new window
Digital archive of Women's Wear Daily and its supplements, from 1910 to within the last 12 months. Every page, article, advertisement and cover has been included.
CoPA-Online: Commercial Pattern Archive 1847+ This link opens in a new window
CoPA-Online contains 55,000+ scanned images (garments & pattern schematics) from commercially produced patterns; unique tool to recreate or date clothing from 1847 to present.
The Commercial Pattern Archive database, CoPA-Online, is the brainchild of Joy Spanabel Emery (1936-2018), founding curator of the Commercial Pattern Archive at the University of Rhode Island. It provides a unique tool for researchers and designers to recreate or date clothing from 1847 to present. Collections from the US, Canada and the UK are represented in the database which functions like a Union Catalog of pattern collections. The Pattern Archive is a project of the US Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Costume Commission. The cornerstone of CoPA is the Betty Williams Collection.

MuseumsEtc This link opens in a new window
Collection of eBooks related to museum and gallery studies.

Collections Database
Basic descriptive information and some images for works held in the Five College Museums and Historic Deerfield

Artprice This link opens in a new window
Fine arts auction prices & indices, with detailed auction sales results.

Dyabola 1956+ This link opens in a new window
Subject catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. Covers classical art and archaeology in journals, books, and essays published worldwide. Annual updates.
L'Année Philologique 1924+ This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of classical studies, including art history.
Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window
The major collection of Greek & Latin texts, continuously updated. Highly searchable, with single- & dual-language reading modes; marking & annotation features, plus tools for sharing; ability to create & save bookshelf.

Further exploration

Not finding what you're looking for? Smith Libraries offers 85 databases that cover Art. Take a look at the other resources we have to offer on our Research Database page.

Iwami Reika, Gin no taki (silver waterfall), 1976, Smith College Museum of Art.