Sculptors - International

• artnet

http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistIndex.aspx?alpha=A1

Compiled by artnet, a subscription-based concern with offices in the USA and Europe that produces a wealth of data for the commercial art market, e.g. prices realised, details of forthcoming auctions and exhibitions, etc. The site includes a free-to-access list of many thousands of fine artists and photographers with their dates, nationality, examples of their work, and, in a number of cases, a brief profile


• Browngrotta Arts

http://browngrotta.com/index.html

Described as "Your resource for contemporary international art textiles and sculpture", the site currently contains profiles of approximately 100 artists with examples of their work. The site also contains a wide range of additional information on contemporary textile arts and sculpture including details new publications, forthcoming exhibitions and events, news items, obituary notices, links to blogs, etc.

• The Artist Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artists

Lists the many thousands of artists, designers, craftspeople and photographers of all countries and periods whose work is included in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, with basic biographical information, i.e dates of birth and death and nationality, together with photographs of work by them in the collection.

• The International Artists Database

http://www.culturebase.net/list_detail.php?type=name&group=a&lang=English

Contains biographical information on thousands of contemporary artists working in all media worldwide, together with examples of their work, statements by the artists, articles, and additional links.

• The Museum of Modern Art, New York

http://www.moma.org/collection/artist_index.php?start_initial=A&end_initial=
A&unparsed_search=2

An inventory of the many thousands of international artists, designers and photographers whose work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Each entry contains details of work(s) in the collection and basic biographical information, i.e. dates of birth and death.

• Tate Online

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistA2Z?cgroupid=999999961

An inventory of the many thousands of international artists whose work is included in the permanent collections of the UK's four Tate Galleries -Tate Britain in London, Tate Modern in London, Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives. Each entry contains details of the works in the Tate collections, and in many cases a biography of the artist and/or photographs the works.

• The Web Gallery of Art

http://www.wga.hu/index1.html

The Web Gallery of Art is described as "a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850)". It contains biographical information on several thousand artists together with over 24.000 reproductions [2010]. The database originated in 1996 and was created Emil Krén a retired Hungarian physicist and Dániel Marx, a researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary. It is a private initiative not related to any museums or art institutions, and not supported financially by any state or corporate sponsors. For a free-access site it is extraordinarily comprehensive and informative.