Art and Design Databases

Academic Search Premier

Multi-disciplinary database provides full text articles including newspapers, magazines, and peer-reviewed (academic/scholarly) journals.

Biography Resource Center

Reference resources such as biographies and articles of some notable artists and designers.

CARLI Digital Collections

Digitized art and artifact collections such as the Saskia Art Images Collecton containing digitized images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, and artifacts.

NYPL Digital Gallery

The New York Public Library's image database containing a vast collection of drawings, maps, posters and many others in subject areas such as fine and decorative arts, history, perferoming arts, and others.