Resources by Subject

Reference Sources for Art Research
Print Reference Tools
The books listed here are all located in the Bothell/CCC Reference Collection on the first floor of the Campus Library:
The Grove Dictionary of Art N31 .D5 1996 Also available online through Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove) - UW restricted

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art

N6490 .C5317 1998 Also available online through Oxford Reference Online: Art and Architecture - UW restricted 
Dictionary of Women Artists N8354 .D53 1997
Contemporary Artists N6490 .C5317 1998
Encyclopedia of World Art N31 .E533
History of Art N5300 .J3 1986B
Latin American and Caribbean Artists of the Modern Era N6502.4 .S45 2003
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century

N6503 .N67 1995
The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture

N7401 .O94 2000
The Oxford Companion to Art N33 .O9
The Oxford Companion to Western Art N33 .O923 2001 Also available online through Oxford Reference Online: Art and Architecture - UW restricted
The Oxford Dictionary of Art N33 .O93 1988 and N33 .O93 1997 2004 edition also available online through Oxford Reference Online: Art and Architecture - UW restricted
The Oxford History of Western Art N5300 .O96 2000
The St. James Guide to Black Artists N40 .S78 1997
The St. James Guide to Hispanic Art N6538 .H58 S7 2002
The 20th Century Art Book N6490 .T9 1996

Online Reference Tools

Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove) - UW restricted
This link provides online access to one of the premier reference materials on art. We also have all 34 volumes of the print edition of the Grove Dictionary of Art in our Reference Collection [N31 .D5 1996].

Gale Virtual Reference Library - UW restricted
 From the opening page, click on the "View Publications" link by "Arts" to find online access to the following reference book:

  • Arts and Humanities Through the Eras 5v, 2005

Oxford Reference Online: Art and Architecture - UW restricted 
Provides online access to the following:

  • A Dictionary of Architecture
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Art
  • A Dictionary of Modern Design
  • The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
  • A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
  • The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Other online reference tools (encyclopedias, dictionaries, and more)

Return to Top