NWP Learning Commons: Art Resources: Art History Resources

Art History Resources

The following resources are excellent places to start your research. They will provide you with the authoritative and expert sources you are expected to use for your assignment. For an idea of how to use and navigate these resources in the most efficient way, visit the Learning Portal's Research Guide or make an appointment for research consultation with a librarian.

For a complete list of fine arts and drama-related databases, click here.

For a complete list of fine arts and drama electronic journals, click here.

Below is just a small sample of the many print books on fine arts available through NWP. Search the NEOS Library Catalogue for hundreds more.

Jackson Pollock by Ellen G. Landau
ISBN: 9780810984967
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
This book locates the artist in the continuum of his times, recreating the social and cultural milieu of New York in the 1940s and 1950s.
Willem de Kooning by David Sylvester; Richard Shiff; Martha Prather
ISBN: 0300060114
Publication Date: 1994-05-25
One of America's greatest painters, Willem de Kooning is a masterful colourist whose huge canvases are charged with enormous energy. The publication of this beautiful book, which presents eighty of de Kooning's finest paintings and painted works on paper from the early 1940s to the 1980s, coincides with the artist's ninetieth birthday in the spring of 1994.
Mark Rothko by Diane Waldman
ISBN: 0810915871
Publication Date: 1978-09-01
A critical study of a pioneer of abstract expressionism analyzes his life and the progression of his art and contains reproductions of one hundred ninety-eight oils and watercolors, ninety-six of which are in full color.