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The University of Delaware Library - The University of Delaware Library has a comprehensive research collection with over 2,700,000 volumes and possesses an excellent Special Collections department, including the George M.A. Hanfmann Professional Library of Ancient Art, the Lloyd and Edith Havens Goodrich-Albert Pinkham Ryder archive, and rare ephemera and publications on Italian Futurism.
A subject guide to Art History resources provided by the University of Delaware Library, which includes licensed databases which are available only to students, faculty, and staff at the University of Delaware, can be found at:
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/arth/
Databases for Art History can be found at:
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/arth/db.htm
The University of Delaware Library provides access to ARTstor. ARTstor is a major database comprised of digital images and related data; and the tools to make active use of those images. ARTstor contains over 500,000 digital images of visual material from different cultures and disciplines, and it seeks to offer sufficient breadth and depth to support a wide range of non-commercial educational and scholarly activities.
ARTstor can be found at:
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/artstor.html
The Visual Resources Collection - The Art History Visual Resources Collection is located in 211 Old College.
University Gallery - The University Gallery serves Art History's teaching needs by scheduling exhibitions that relate to courses and as a laboratory for the study of museum methods. The University Gallery offers students the opportunity to work with and research original works of art and to gain experience and knowledge of conservation and exhibition techniques.
Winterthur Library - The Winterthur Library which specializes in American Art and material culture, is open to graduate students in Art History. The Delaware Art Museum has a comprehensive collection of American Art and the Bancroft English Pre-Raphaelite Collection. Students may easily take advantage of numerous major museums, libraries, and archives in Philadelphia (50 minutes), Baltimore (1-1/4 hours), Washington and New York (2 hours). |