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Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) See Researching Your Art for getting started tips for art collectors. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is dedicated to art and artists of the United States. The museum maintains a number of specialized art databases at this link: Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS). The Art Inventories database lets you search, by artist name, over 360,000 works in public and private collections nationwide. At this link you can search the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection of 40,000 artworks. More than 18,000 are illustrated online. You can search for specific artworks by artist name, painting title, art work type or art work subject. tfaoi.com Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc. A resource for collectors, life long learners and students of Art History. See this subsection of the site: http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa215n.htm. There is a good page on how and where to get appraisals of original art objects. the-artists.org A portal for research on visual arts for art lovers, art students, artists, art historians, large and small collectors, museum curators, art gallery owners and exhibition organisers. The site contains an extended database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists. The masters of the past hundred years are represented. getty.edu The Getty Museum & Research Institute. Book catalogues and art collections databases. See The Getty Provenance (history) Research Database. Also try these databases at getty.edu: The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)® The AAT is a structured vocabulary of more than 133,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture. The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)® The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing more than 225,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants. ask-art.com Easy to search for specific works of art by artist name. View an artist biography, photographs of art works, auction records and more. Offers limited information for free. artnet.com An on-line gallery facilitating the research, buying and selling of fine art. Has more than 90,000 works by over 18,000 artists.
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