Artists
See Also: Art Directories, Galleries
Image Galleries
Portfolios with biographies, images, and links.
Poems and Stories
Read Online: Short stories, poetry, and songs about artists.
Lists of Artists
Smithsonian Collection
Browse or search the Smithsonian collection of artists and works.
MoMA | The Collection
Browse or search the museums collection of over 1700 artists and over 5700 objects online.
The-Artists.org
Directory of modern and contemporary visual artists, each listing includes a portrait, a brief biography, and links to sites with more information.
Guggenheim Collection
Guggenheim Museum collection list of artists.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Explore & Learn
Access biographical materials on select artists as well as general information about their work.
CultureBase.net
An online information source for contemporary international artists from all fields.
The National Gallery London: Collection Online
Includes biographies of some of the gallery's most famous artists, paintings of the month, beginner's guides, and more.
Art in Context
A nonprofit organization maintaining a database of information, including images and links. Browse by name, nationality, discipline, or period.
Intute - People Index
Searchable database including artists, photographers, actors, authors, musicians, scholars, and others.
Paleta World
Featuring an extensive artist, image and museum archive, searchable by country, date and many different themes.
Olga's Gallery
Biographies and important works of famous artists, includes images and historical comments.
NGA.gov
Index of artists from the National Gallery of Art.
Tate Collection - Artist A-Z
Lists artists in the national collection of British art.
AskArt.com
Directory of American artists from the 16th to the 21st century, includes appraisal information, auction results, and more.
Getty Union List of Artist Names
A searchable database of artist names and biographical information.
Distinguished Artist Series
Alphabetical lists of important American painters, photographers, and sculptors.
PBS: American Masters
A small collection of images and biographical information about American masters of visual art.
A-Z of Artists
Alphabetic index of artists with images from the Walker Art Gallery, Lady Lever Art Gallery and Sudley House.
Web Gallery of Art
A virtual museum with a searchable database of fine European arts. Includes paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance, Baroque, Gothic and Romanticism periods.
WebMuseum: Paris
Famous artists of the Western World, includes detailed biographies and images.
National Galleries of Scotland: Artists A-Z
Alphabetical lists of the artists, works date from the early Renaissance to the present day, some of the most important artists in history are featured, also includes portraits, modern art and photography.
Bert Christensen's Artists
Alphabetical index of artists from Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Gallery. Includes weird and bad art.
Museums of France
French painters listed alphabetically, chronologically, and by place of origin.
Artists on Art
Writings, letters, speeches and interviews of famous painters.
Wikipedia
Important artists categorized by medium, nationality, genre, name, and more.
Artcyclopedia
Large searchable database, browse by name, subject, medium, or nationality. Listings include brief biographical information and links to sites where works can be viewed.
CGFA - Indexes
Browse by name, nationality and time frame. Includes high quality scans and some biographical information.
ArtNet.com
Images and information on over 180,000 artists from old masters to contemporary.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The permanent collection listed by artist name includes records for over 40,000 objects, however not all of them have images.
Artline Artists
Database of information and images for several hundred artists from 1500 ad to present.
