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"Our collection of more than 150,000 paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, prints, and drawings spans the history of Western art and showcases some of the triumphs of human creativity."

University of Michigan

Explore art and museum collections by artist, color, museum, theme, time period, etc. Many exhibits with augmented reality or highly detailed zoom views.

an interactive experience between time, continents and culture. A partnership with the British Museum and Google Cultural Institute

"not simply a known establishment presenting known content, but a global institutional project showing the best contemporary art together with historically significant pieces." --website

"the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America."

integrated information on artists, ideas, movements and timelines written by art experts

research content on women artists in the 19th and 20th centuries around the world

Access digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature.

Digitized American and European art historical texts, art exhibition catalogs, biographies of artists and collectors, philosophical and political treatises, and New York City guides and tourism pamphlets, and range in date from the late 1800s to the 1960s.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

from the International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Houston, TX "Explore over 8,000 Documents of 20th and 21st⁠-⁠century art in Latin America, the Caribbean, and among US Latino communities"

brief information on artists and art

"Smarthistory is a radical collaborative of more than five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists committed to rewriting the colonial legacies of art history and unlocking the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible to more people, in more places, than any other publisher. "

Resource Library includes thousands of articles, largely exhibition based, on American representational art covering pre-colonial art to the present in every state.

The best way to search is through google using your keywords as per this example: site:tfaoi.org "georgia o'keeffe"