Art Galleries & Art Museums

United Kingdom - London

Courtauld Institute of Art - The major centre in Britain for the study of the history of Western art, and one of the premier art historical institutes in the world.

Dulwich Picture Gallery - 'Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery is ... a magnificent collection of old masters by Rembrandt, Poussin, Watteau, Rubens, Canaletto, Gainsborough and many more. The critically acclaimed loan exhibitions and its setting in the beautiful eighteenth century village of Dulwich, make the Gallery a must for all art lovers'.

Hayward Gallery - 'The Hayward, a purpose-built, modern art gallery [on the South Bank], opened in 1968. It is considered a classic example of sixties "brutalist" architecture. The Gallery plays a vital role in the visual arts in the UK and internationally ... presenting a wide range of ground-breaking exhibitions over nearly thirty years. In addition to the Gallery in London, the Hayward is responsible for National Touring Exhibitions (NTE) and the Arts Council Collection (ACC), which it manages on behalf of the Arts Council of England'.

National Gallery - The National Gallery's permanent collection and current long-term loans are all illustrated and described in the Collection On-line. User can browse through the collection, view some artists in detail or learn about the religious stories and classical myths shown in some of the paintings.

National Portrait Gallery - Founded in 1856 to collect the likenesses of famous British men and women, today the collection is the most comprehensive of its kind.

Royal Academy of Arts - An independent fine arts institution which supports contemporary artists and promotes interest in the arts through a comprehensive and ambitious exhibition programme.

The Royal Collection at the Queens Galleries, Buckingham Palace - Shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens over more than 500 years, the Royal Collection includes paintings, drawings and watercolours, furniture, ceramics, clocks, silver, sculpture, jewellery, books, manuscripts, prints and maps, arms and armour, fans, and textiles.

The Royal Holloway Collection - Thomas Holloway (1800–83) a self-made multi-millionaire whose fortune had been made in patent medicines, paid well over 80,000 pounds (equivalent to more than 6 million pounds in today's terms) for the seventy-seven paintings which make up the Royal Holloway Collection.

Saatchi Gallery - The Saatchi Gallery aims to present work by largely unseen young artists or by established international artists whose work has been rarely/never exhibited in the UK.

Somerset House: Courtauld Institute - Home to the Courtauld Institute, the Hermitage Rooms and the Gilbert Collection.

Tate Galleries and Tate E-Learning - Access to the collections of the Tate Britian, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives. Includes an online database of 50,000 works.

Victoria & Albert Museum (including the National Art Library) - The V&A is the National Museum of Art and Design. Its purpose, deriving from the National Heritage Act 1983, is to enable people to enjoy, learn from and be inspired by the V&A's collections, knowledge and expertise.

Wallace Collection - 'The Wallace Collection is both a national museum and the finest private collection of art ever assembled by one family. It was bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, widow of Sir Richard Wallace, in 1897, and opened to the public just over three years later on 22 June 1900... Among its treasures are one of the best collections of French 18th-century pictures, porcelain and furniture in the world, a remarkable array of 17th-century paintings and a superb armoury.

United Kingdom - Out of London

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology University of Oxford 

Barber Institute of Fine Art - The Barber Institute of Fine Arts is housed in one of Birmingham's finest Art Deco buildings within the University of Birmingham.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is housed in a Grade II* listed city centre landmark building. The museum shows its collections of art, applied art, social history, archaeology and ethnography

FitzWilliam Museum - The art museum of the University of Cambridge.

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Victoria Gallery and Museum at the University of Liverpool - spanning the 16th to 21st centuries, the art collection comprises more than 6,500 items of fine art, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, glass and silverware

United States

Getty Museum: Explore Art - Learn more about many of the works of art on display at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa. Browse artists by name or look at the collection by subject.

Guggenheim Online - Currently representing 169 artists, the collection online encompasses both the classic and the new. Each work may be viewed at small, medium, or large resolution, and is accompanied by insightful commentary. The site also includes additional scholarly and contextual information, such as artist biographies, definitions of art-historical terms, concepts on art, and suggested readings.

Harvard University Art Museums - Includes the The Fogg Art Museum, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Arthur M. Sackler Museum and the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. Although most of the information is about the museums themselves, there are useful articles on the featured exhibitions.

Krannert Art Museum & Kinkead Pavilion - University of Illinois - Browse images of a variety of arts including American oil paintings, Egyptian sculptures, African art, Chinese Ming dynasty porcelain vases and pre-Columbian textiles from Peru.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - The collection now contains more than three million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. About 3,500 objects—fifty highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire department of European Paintings—can be searched by artist, period, style, or keyword. You may also explore other works from the Met's collection by taking the director's tour; viewing some of the Museum's recent acquisitions; or by visiting the Timeline of Art History, the Period Rooms: Virtual Reality Tour, or the Provenance Research Project.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - The MCA holds over 6,000 objects, works representing trends in art after 1945 in all media and genres: paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, film, installations, and artists' books. Among the greatest strengths of the MCA Collection are Surrealist works from the 1940s and 1950s, Minimalist works from the 1960s, conceptual art and photography from the 1960s to the present, and art by Chicago-based artists.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Information about the museum/gallery, ability to browse the collections or view 500 highlights. Can also preview current exhibitions (Impressions of light: landscape from Corot to Monet) as well as view past exhibitions (including ones on Monet, Mary Cassat etc.)

National Gallery of Art - Washington DC - As well as information about the gallery there is a selection of online tours of the collection or tours enabling the user to explore an artist, a specific work of art, or a theme in-depth.

New Britain Museum of American Art - Includes American works of art, now numbering well over 4,300, with particular strengths in colonial portraiture, the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and the Ash Can School, as well as the important mural series 'The Arts of Life in America' by Thomas Hart Benton.

Smithsonian Institution - Museums - This site includes the Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle), the Arts and Industries Building , Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Freer Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of African Art, National Museum of the American Indian, National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. Also view the Archives of American Art exhibits online

Whitney Museum of American Art - See the tour under Collections, then American Voices Online Tour.

Yale Center for British Art - Houses the most comprehensive collection of British paintings, prints, drawings, rare books, and sculpture outside Great Britain. Given to Yale University by Paul Mellon, the resources illustrate British life and culture from the 16th century to the present.

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