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Art

Information and links to materials appropriate for students enrolled in Art courses.

Nearby Mueseums

Use the following websites and databases to find images in museum collections around Savannah.

National Museums

Use the following websites and databases to find images in museum collections around the country.

International Museums

Use the following websites and databases to find images in museum collections around the world.

Suggested Databases

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CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
CAMIO provides online access to high-quality art images from around the world contributed and described by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes. CAMIO art images span the following categories:

Art Images for College Teaching  (University of Michigan)
AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The AICT website's emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture reflects the author's research and teaching interests.

Arts of the United States
Arts of the United States, a joint project between the Lamar Dodd Art School, University of Georgia and the University of Georgia and Yale University Libraries, contains over 4000 images of works important to the study of the history of art in the United States. The pieces, dating from the 17th century through the 20th, include architecture, decorative arts, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, and stage and costume design as well as Native American art and artifacts.

Google Art Project  
The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and 151 art partners from across 40 countries. Users can explore a wide range of artworks at brushstroke level detail, take a virtual tour of a museum and build their own collections to share.

Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University)
Contains images from ancient Greece and Rome, including architecture.

Art Gallery at the Asa H. Gordon Library

library art gallery

The art gallery of the Asa H. Gordon Library was established in 2002 with works from the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York City and pieces from the Tom and Carol Mott Africana collection.

The Annina Nosei Gallery, which is owned and directed by Annina Nosei, has been a pioneer both nationally and internationally in the showing of new artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barbara Kruger, Shirin Neshat, and Ghada Amer. The gallery specializes in contemporary painting, photography and sculpture from the US, Europe, and Latin America.

Asa H. Gordon Library

Savannah State University 2200 Tompkins Rd Savannah, GA 31404 Phone: (912) 358-4324 Reference Text Line: (912) 226-2479