Research Guides: Women in Art: Home

Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Use the CU Boulder Libraries OneSearch to find books, journals, newspaper articles and more from a variety of disciplines.

Oxford Art Online
Visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Includes the Grove Dictionary of Art, the best source for encyclopedia entries on artists, styles, periods, materials or techniques. Entries include extensive lists of sources.

Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
Includes basic information as well as any alternate names and spellings.

American National Biography Online
Biographical profiles of people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Standard biographical work on figures who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.

ADB/NDB Gesamtregister
Combined online index to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) and Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), standard biographical dictionaries on important personalities in German-speaking Europe from the Middle Ages on.
Biographical Dictionary of Italian People
The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani is a biographical dictionary published by the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, started in 1925 and not yet completed. It is planned to include about 40,000 biographies of distinguished Italians. The entries are signed by their authors and provide a rich bibliography.

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
Most comprehensive database of worldwide library holdings. Limited to 40 simultaneous users across the state of Colorado.

Use Google Books to search within the text of books to find mentions on your artists:

Contemporary Artists Index
This database allows you to search by artist and find group exhibition catalogs and other books they have been included in. This information usually isn't searchable in our library catalog. You can also see lists of every artist listed in an exhibition catalog. It's a great way to explore themes and find artists who work with those themes.