19th and Early 20th Century 

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Art Books: a Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists
    Print:  Reference N 40 .F47

The Dictionary of Art. (Grove's Dictionary of Art)
    Print: Reference N 31 D5 1996

Encyclopedia of World Art.  Articles include bibliographies.
    Print:  Reference N 31 E4833

Browse the N's on the Reference shelves for other relevant reference sources.

Library Catalog -- Our library's collection of books, videos, periodicals, etc...!

• 30 day checkout for most items
• Renew online

MOBIUS -- Missouri academic library consortium

• Request online, items arrive within 2-3 working days
• 21 day checkout, 2 renewals (if not needed elsewhere)
• When requesting, we are part of LANCE and remember to choose Truman State University as pickup location.

WorldCat -- Libraries around the country. Available through FirstSearch.

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For books check the Library Catalog first, then MOBIUS. Only use ILL as a last resort.

Forms: available on the Interlibrary Loan Services site, through most FirstSearch & EBSCO databases, and at the Reference desk.

Do not wait until the last minute to request materials through ILL!

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Periodicals ~ JournalFinder

If you found this article reference in a bibliography, how could you find out if our library has it?

Search JournalFinder available on the Library's home page. JournalFinder will retrieve the catalog record to a journal if the library has it in print (so you can get the Call number) and will also link to full text options if they are available.

General sources (all subjects)

Academic Search Elite (EBSCO).  1985+.  A multi-disciplinary database that indexes over 3000 periodicals, many scholarly journals and some popular magazines.  Includes full text of about 2000 of the periodicals.  You can limit your search to find only scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Be careful to only use scholarly journals.
 

ArticleFirst.  Database of scanned tables of contents from about 13,000
    periodical titles since 1990.  Includes both popular and scholarly periodicals.
        

Dissertation Abstracts.  Index to dissertations from 1861.  The actual
    dissertations  may sometimes be obtained through interlibrary loan.
     

Specialized Art Sources

Humanities Abstracts.  1984+
Citations from about 325 periodicals in archaeology and
classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology, language and literature.
Print: 1907-1996   Reference AI 3 S6 (Early volumes called International Index)
            

ABC-CLIO History Databases

America: History & Life.    1964+    Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from  prehistory to the present.

Historical Abstracts.  1954+     Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present   (excluding the United States and Canada)

JSTOR. Archive of scholarly journals. Includes journals in Art & Art History

RILA:  International Repertory of the Literature of Art.  1978-1989.
        Print:  General Collection (non-circulating) N  7510  R54

Arts & Humanities Search.  1980+  International multidisciplinary
   database indexing 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

Speeches, letters, journals, diaries, etc. of an individual may be found by looking for the name of that person as an author.  In the Library Catalog for example:        

The word sources or documents or documentary usually occur on records for anthologies or collections of primary source material.  Use those words in a keyword search to bring up collections of documents.

      art and history and (sources or document*)

      art and s:sources         The s:  limits the term sources to the subject field.

      s:sources and impressionism
 

Use the Library Catalog to find these in our library.  Use MOBIUS or WorldCat  to see what other volumes might exist that you could borrow. 

Finding articles from 19th and early 20th Century publications:
 
 Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals. About 40 American Art periodicals that were published during the 19th century are included in this two volume set. Pickler does not have many holdings of the titles indexed, but interlibrary loan is always an option.
    Print: Reference N 6510 S35 1999

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906
In print only: Table B AI 3 P7
Early index to articles in US and British journals and magazines.

Art Index Retrospective. 1929-1984.  Coverage of older articles in international periodicals and journals in the arts. Also in print 1929-1997: Reference N1 A1 A78.
 

New York Times Newspaper, 1851-present
Indexing for these years available at http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
The full-text is available for purchase through this web site or you can use the citation information to locate the articles on the full run of the New York Times microfilm in Truman's library collection.
Print index in Microforms Reference AI 21 N45 
Check the New York Times Collection Guide for more information.
 

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
In print only: Table B Z2005 H6
A subject and author index to British articles, as well as an index for book reviews

Art History Resources on the Web Links are arranged by time periods, Prehistoric to 20th Century

Getty Research Library  Search the collections of the Getty Research Library using IRIS, the on-line catalog, and connect to other reference and research resources.

National Gallery of Art  See if there is a in-depth study provided for your artist. Under The Collection link you will find a link entitled In-depth studies focus on artists and works of arts.