Painters - USA

• African American Visual Artists Database

http://www.aavad.com

The aim of the African American Visual Artists Database (AAVAD) is to establish a free public access record of the ongoing contribution of artists of African decent to the visual arts. Included are all artists of the African diaspora who have lived, worked, studied or exhibited in the USA, Canada, and the Caribbean. Artists are eligible when they have been actively and professionally engaged in the production of work of art for a period of at least 4 years and are at least 21 years old. As of November 2009, the AAVAD contains data on nearly 12,000 artists. The amount of biographical information is limited. More useful as a source of bibliographical data.


• AskArt

http://www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx

A subscription-based online service that contains data on some c.80,000 painters and sculptors and some designers and craftspeople. Mainly includes US artists. Access is free on Fridays. Most of the information has been supplied by collectors and dealers. Wikipederish. Only a percentage of entries so far contain biographical information but this is growing.

• Luther College

http://finearts.luther.edu/artists/index.html

Profiles of artists, designers and makers whose work is represented in the collection of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.


• Metro Arts Artist Registry

http://www.artsnashville.org/registry/index.php?scan=az&main=artist&id

Compiled by the Metro Nashville Arts Commission. The Registry currently [2010] contains profiles of nearly 300 professional artists (mainly painters, sculptors and photographers) active in the Nashville area of Tennessee, with examples of their work. The site also contains a guide to Nashville arts organisations, a catalogue of Nashville area public art, and much more.

• PM / A-D Designers and Artists

http://www.drleslie.com/Contributors/contributorslist.shtml

Compiled by Erin K. Malone as part of an M.F.A. Thesis on Dr Robert L. Leslie and The Composing Room submitted to Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York in 1994.

Contains profiles of nearly 200 artists and designers who contributed work to the magazine ‘PM’ and its successor ‘A-D’ between 1934-42.


• Smithsonian American Art Museum

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/results/?q=65

Contains basic biographical information about the many thousands of painters, sculptors and craftspeople whose work is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

• Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art Oral History Project.

http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/

The Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art Oral History Project originated in 1958 and now includes interviews with many hundreds if not thousands of US artists, designers, craftspeople, photographers, arts administrators and educators. Transcripts of many of these interviews are now available online.

• The United States Air Force Art Collection

https://www.afapo.hq.af.mil/Presentation/common/artists.cfm

A major source of information on American aviation and combat art. Contains biographies of the many hundreds of artists whose work is represented in the USAF Art Collection. The USAF Art Program had its origins in 1950 with the transfer from the U.S. Army of some 800 works of art documenting the early days of the Army Air Corps., and has grown significantly since then. The database includes reproductions of most, if not all, of the work in the collection.

• Wildlife Artists

http://www.wildlifeart.org/Artists/index.php?showLast=a

Compiled by the National Museum of Wildlife Artists in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Contains profiles of US wildlife artists whose work is included in the Museum's collection with photographs of their work.