Art Library
The Art Library serves the University of Washington School of Art and the university community-at-large and is open to the public. The collection primarily supports teaching, research, and learning in the broad areas of art history, studio art, and design.
Popular Art Indexes and Databases
To access restricted resources off-campus please log in (click on the off-campus access box, above right).
Database Trial: AskART through June 1, 2012
AskART is an online database containing over 200,000 artists. From its inception the focus was on American artists from the early 16th-Century through the present. However, in January of 2007 the database expanded to include international artists' auction records.
AskART offers extensive biographical information about American artists as well as book and periodical references, along with International artists' auction records and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced. As a member of AskART, one has complete access to information about the artists’ biographies, auction records, financial graphics, magazine ads pre-1998, and images.
