William Morris Hunt Memorial Library

Accessible via JSTOR

Selection of digitized collection of auction catalogs and dealers' catalogs uniquely held in the MFA Library.

The Blue Mountain Project is the common work of scholars, librarians, curators, and digital humanities researchers whose mission is to create a freely available digital repository of important, rare, and fragile texts that both chronicle and embody the emergence of cultural modernity in the West.

This site provides access to photographs, manuscripts, books, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest that have been digitized and made available by members of Digital Commonwealth, a statewide consortium of libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies from across Massachusetts.

Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France and its partners. Online since 1997, it is enriched every week with thousands of new features and today offers access to several million documents.

Library of 300 digitized titles published by the Getty Research Institute.

The Getty Research Portal™ is a free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and other researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

A database of published catalogues raisonnés and one of catalogues in preparation.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.

Freely available digitized collection of publications published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provides access to archival collections pertaining to trade of works of art, sales catalogs, and public art collections.

Digitized auction catalogues

Digitized collection of auction catalogues published between 1901 and 1929 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

This database lists all the collectors’ marks on drawings and prints; they take the form of small written or stamped signs, and they signify ownership or provenance. The online edition provides a large quantity of information about collectors and the history of their collections. In addition to marks of public and private collections, marks of print publishers, print dealers and mounters, plus artists’ succession stamps are included. The search engine makes it simple to find a mark via a variety of criteria, including number, name or description.

AATA Onlineis a free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. It has been managed and published by the Getty since 1983. AATA Online contains over 148,000 records and adds approximately 4,000 new records each year through regular updates. The database also includes selected subject-specific bibliographies produced as part of the Getty Conservation Institute’s own conservation and scientific research projects or as part of specific collaborative projects in which the Institute is involved.

The American Institute for Conservation and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation work together to promote the preservation and protection of cultural heritage. Partner with us to further that mission.

BCIN, the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network, is the web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property.

The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI), a Special Operating Agency within the Department of Canadian Heritage, advances and promotes the conservation of Canada's heritage collections through its expertise in conservation science, treatment and preventive conservation.

The Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online (CAMEO) is a database that compiles, defines, and disseminates technical information on the distinct collection of terms, materials, and techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation. First developed as a materials database in 1997 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston it has expanded with the cooperation of multiple institutions to include several reference collections.

Digitized historic texts on conservation

Conservation OnLine (CoOL) is a freely accessible platform to generate and disseminate vital resources for those working to preserve cultural heritage worldwide.

This biannual publication provides an online, open-access platform devoted to the technical study of art objects. Bringing together the disciplines of conservation, conservation science, art history, and related fields, Materia is among the first peer-reviewed publications dedicated solely to this steadily growing field of interdisciplinary research.

This exhibit includes most important pigments used through the early 20th century.

The Boston Athenaeum's collections comprise over half a million volumes, with particular strengths in Boston history, New England state and local history, biography, English and American literature, and the fine and decorative arts.

The BPL offers access to an art library, subscription databases, and digitized collections in addition to typical public library offerings. Any MA resident can apply for a library card to use online resources.

The mission of the Frick Art Reference Library is to provide public access to materials and programs focused on the study of fine and decorative arts created in the Western tradition from the fourth to the mid-twentieth century. It serves an international research community and supports institutional initiatives.

Harvard’s primary collection and resource of global materials for the study of the history of art and architecture and related disciplines.

The Library of Congress provides a wide range of research and reference resources, digitized collections, archival papers, and much more.

The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) consists of the research libraries and archives of three leading art museums in New York City: The Brooklyn Museum, The Frick Collection, and The Museum of Modern Art.

The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System provides access to search the catalogs of the Smithsonian Libraries; Archives, Manuscripts, and Photograph Collections; Smithsonian American Art Museum Research Databases; History of the Smithsonian; and the Directory of Airplanes.

WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.