Electronic Resources

An appointment is necessary to consult the subscription databases, which are only available on-site. This page also includes resources on the Phillips's institutional history and lists some selected online resources on related topics.

Phillips Collection Resources

Exhibition History

Bibliography of Duncan Phillips's Writings

Phillips Collection Chronology

On-site Subscription Databases

Art Index Retrospective. A citation database for international art publications from 1929 to 1984. Indexes articles, exhibition and book reviews, and published art reproductions.
ARTstor. Online library of nearly 1,000,000 images for use in studying the history of art and humanities.
JSTOR. Searchable access to full-text articles from over 1,000 scholarly journals.
Oxford Art Online. Includes Grove Art Online, an art encyclopedia covering Western and non-Western art, including articles, biographies, images, and The Dictionary of Art, as well as The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Who’s Who in American Art. Includes biographical information for 14,000 prominent figures in American Art. The subscription also includes access to Who’s Who in America, in the World, in American History, and in American Politics.

Selected Art Resources Links

Archives of American Art: A collection of 16 million items supporting study of the history of visual art in America, including letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketchbooks, and other documents.

Art Inventories Catalog: From the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a searchable combination of the Inventory of American Paintings and the Inventory of American Sculpture, which include more than 400,000 works in public and private collections nationwide.

Dictionary of Art Historians: A scholarly biographical database

MICA Text Finder: Searchable index of art texts, such as essays, critical and theoretical texts, manifestos, artist statements, and interviews.

Van Gogh Letters: Highly searchable digital collection of all 902 letters to and from Vincent van Gogh, featuring new translations and transcriptions, digital images, and cross-references. Includes concordances and historical contexts.

Worldcat: A network of over 10,000 libraries worldwide. Useful for locating items in other local public or institutional libraries.

Other Museum Library Catalogs

Arcade: New York Art Resources Consortium (Brooklyn Museum Library & Archives, Frick Art Reference Library, Museum of Modern Art Library)

Getty Research Institute Research Library Catalog. Includes excellent collection of books on photography.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library

National Gallery of Art

Smithsonian Collections Search Center