Research Links

The Research Links list is classified for aiding research in numerous areas of cultural and historical studies, many of them relevant to the study of American art, history, and visual and material culture.

  • Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists Active before 1945, compiled by Susan V. Craig, is now available as a .pdf file at http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/1028/1/BDKAversion1.pdf


  • Image Duplicator, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation’s artist’s digital catalogue, can be accessed at www.imageduplicator.com


  • Lafayette: Database of American Art: Works by United States Artists from the French National Collections, 1620-1940, is a bilingual online catalogue of more than 1,700 works produced by US artists that entered the national collections of France before 1940. The catalogue includes works of all media except prints and photography. These artworks have been drawn from public collections all over France. The title, medium, dimensions, inventory number, history, bibliography, and exhibition history of each piece has been documented, and each is reproduced online when feasible under current copyright regulations. Supported by grants from the Luce Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art, the database can be accessed at http://musee.louvre.fr/bases/lafayette/?lng=1