Biographical Resources
- Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
- Reference N40.T5
- Most comprehensive biographical dictionary to date
- Also known as Thieme-Becker
- Architecture and Design Collection(Art, Design & Architecture Museum)
- Archives over 350 architects and designers mainly from California
- Archives over 350 architects and designers mainly from California
- Dictionary of Artists
- Reference N40.B4713 2006
- English edition of Bénézit's Dictionnaire critique et documentaire
- Some entries include sales information and signatures or monograms
- Union Lists of Artists Names (ULAN)
- Free resource from the Getty, bringing together variant names and based biographical data
- Over 118,000 international and historical artists and architects
- Who's Who in American Art
- Reference N6536.W5
- Bienniel directory good for lesser known artists and non-artists (critics, historians, etc.)
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Art Online allows you to search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Users can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. The database includes more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online. Thematic timelines and learning resources also provide users with powerful tools for navigating the content, and context-sensitive help pages are available throughout the site to guide users through the features and functionality.The database includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art.
- Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new windowBiography in Context (formerly known as Biography Resource Center) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines over 600,000 biographies from over 170 sources, with over one million entries from the Complete Marquis Who's Who®. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
