Research Guides: Art History: Art History II

Asian and South Pacific Art: Images

American Museum of Natural History: Division of Anthropology
Over 250,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects representing the peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Pacific Islands have been digitally imaged and are accessible online.
You can search by keyword, but you can also browse by starting with the Collection Area dropdown menu, where you can select Asia or Pacific.
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
"One of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world." More than 18,000 objects online.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Be sure to use the Advanced Search. View selected objects in 3D.
Harvard Art Museum
Extensive East Asian art holdings. Scroll down for the link to browse or search the collection. One of the ways you can browse is by "Place."
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"LACMA is home to a vast collection of Pacific art that focuses on Polynesia and Melanesia. The items on exhibit include an 18th-century Hawaiian drum, an Easter Islands dance paddle, and a hermaphrodite ancestor figure from Papua New Guinea. The museum has a collection of Asian art that is also impressive and eclectic, with a dedicated Pavilion for Japanese Art and a wing of Korean art in the Hammer Building that spread over a wide of range of historical periods."
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
View the Museum's collection of art of the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and North, Central, and South America—more than 12,000 works of art of varied materials and types. Try starting your search with the Geographic Location filter.
Mia (Minneapolis Institute of Art): Chinese, South, and Southeast Asian Art
This link goes to MIA items in the Chinese, South, and Southeast Asia Art Department
Victoria and Albert Museum
Scroll down to Online > Places
Mia (Minneapolis Institute of Art): Japanese and Korean Art
This link goes directly to items in the Japanese and Korean collection.

Expand Your Book Search

Once you've searched OneSearch, expand your search by using the dropdown arrow by the search box. Select "All MnPals Libraries." The search results will include the Minnesota Historical Society.

Once you've searched All MnPals Libraries, the next step would be to try these.

Marshall-Lyon County Library
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Library
"One of the Midwest’s premiere research centers dedicated to the study of art. The library’s holdings provide special collection and rare printed materials as well as digitized texts/images and cutting-edge online research tools."
MnLINK Online catalog for Minnesota’s public and academic libraries.
WorldCat Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Also find links to additional OCLC worldwide databases: ArticleFirst, Electronic Books, A&I, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, Dissertation and Theses.

More places to search

Minneapolis Institute of Arts Library
"One of the Midwest’s premiere research centers dedicated to the study of art. The library’s holdings provide special collection and rare printed materials as well as digitized texts/images and cutting-edge online research tools."
Getty Search Gateway
The Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.
BHA and RILA
Bibliography of the History of Art and Repertoire International de la Litterature de l'art. BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.

Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Full-text articles from over 4,600 publications, covering almost every academic subject.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Full-text archive of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select books and other materials.
New York Times, Historical (1851-2019) This link opens in a new window Articles from the New York Times during 1851-2019.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Full-text articles in humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

Primary Sources, Museums...

Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Includes letters, photographs, oral histories, sketches, scrapbooks, and other documents surrounding the United States' contributions to the visual arts.
Oral Interviews
From the Archives of American Art in the Smithsonian
HathiTrust
Digital Public Library of America
Minnesota Reflections From the Minnesota Digital Library, a statewide collaborative effort between libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums to create a digital collection unique to the state of Minnesota and its residents. Access more than 30,000 images, maps, and documents of Minnesota's history.
Europeana
Like the Digital Public Library of America, but for Europe. "Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised items – books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for. Our dedicated thematic collections on art, fashion, music, photography and World War I contain galleries, blogs and exhibitions to inform and inspire."