Artworks for State
Buildings
Offers a database of public art works including artist biographical
information; one of the many NC Arts Council resources; see also below.
Carolina Arts
Online
A very
comprehensive guide to current gallery and museum listings, arts
organizations, and individual artists. Also includes feature articles.
Cherokee
Artist Directory
An online directory of Elder artists and the "Next generation" of
the Eastern Band of the Cherokee.
NC ECHO Exploring Cultural
Heritage Online
A virtual clearinghouse for NC's cultural heritage, including libraries,
museums, arts councils, art centers and special collections. Consult
the website's institution subject strengths list under the term "art."
New Deal/WPA Art in
North Carolina
A useful private website for New Deal art, including some images.
North Carolina Artists
A small index to artists in NC, largely from clippings, announcements
and other ephemera.
North Carolina
Artists
A searchable database of contemporary NC artists.
North Carolina Arts
Council Arts Directory
Also includes touring artist directory, directory of local (by county)
arts councils, and more.
North Carolina Periodicals
Index (ECU)
An index to articles appearing in North Carolina periodicals, 1992
to date. Includes abstract. Search by keyword or specific index
terms such as art museums, artists, artisans, painters, etc. Periodicals
are located in the Joyner Library at East Carolina University (but
may be located in other NC libraries as well.)
North
Carolina Photographers through 1910
North Carolina Visual Art and Artists
Randall Library, UNC-Wilmington. A large searchable online index
(by artist's name) which includes information on 20,000 artists,
1900-1986, with some information on earlier artists. The file itself
must be consulted at UNC-W.
North
Carolina Women Artists Archive
The North Carolina Women Artists Archive, on deposit at the Sloane
Art Library, is a collection of material about women artists working
in the state from ca. 1900 to 1950. About 80 artists are represented
in the Archives, which are available for use in the Library. See
also the National Museum of Women in the Arts which is planning a
Database of Women Artists:
http://www.nmwa.org/library/archives.asp.
Prints and Photographs
Division, Library of Congress
Smithsonian
American Art Museum Art Inventories and Archives of American Art
Catalogs
Searchable by artist name or using North Carolina as a keyword.
Inventories paintings by artists born or active up to 1914, sculpture
from colonial to contemporary. Can be used to identify works in NC
collections, works with NC as a subject, as well as known artists,
titles. The Archives, Manuscripts and Photographs Catalog can be
searched as well by switching catalogs.
See also the Search Collections section of the SAAM at
http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
Southern
Artistry
A showcase of sourthern artists, browsable
by state or discipline. Includes visual but also literary,
performing, craft, and other arts, thumbnails and artist biographies.
Union List of Artist Names (Getty) For major artists.
Western
North Carolina Artist Registry
Searchable by artist's name, medium or county of residence. 235
artists included. Sponsored by the Asheville Art Museum.
Western North Carolina Artists and Illustrators to 1950
A list of artists who "lived, worked, or visited western North
Carolina and their association with this region resulted in a
body of work depicting the mountains, the people and the way of
life in the western part of the state. The list includes artists
whose work falls largely before 1945."
See also:
North
Carolina State Archives
State Library of
North Carolina
