3. DIRECTORIES AND BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES
Directories
American Association of Museums. Official Museum Directory. (Annual)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 50 Of3]
Includes all types of museums within the United States.
International Directory of Arts. 2 vols. (Annual)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 50 In81]
Directory of Museums, Galleries, Universities, Colleges, Associations, Art Dealers, Auctioneers, etc.
Museums of the World. 2 vols (Annual)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 900 M974211...]
Arranged alphabetically by country. Includes all types of museums.
World of Learning. (Online)
Directory which includes Research Institutions, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Universities, Colleges, etc. (Identified online as Europa World of Learning)
Biographical Dictionaries (NOTE: Core art historical biographical dictionaries are preceded by an asterisk)
*Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon. (1983-)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 40 AL52]
In a few decades this will supersede Thieme-Becker. Remarkably international in scope (note all the Arabic names in vol. 1).
Dictionary of art historians: a biographical dictionary of historians, museum directors and scholars of art. (Online)
Ed. by Lee Sorensen, Duke University. A biographical/bibliographical lexicon of historic scholars of art.
*Bénézit, E. Dictionary of artists. 14 vols. (2006)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 40 B43112]
A General biographical dictionary, Benezit is comparable to Thieme-Becker, but smaller, with a French orientation. Includes artists signatures.
Dizionario Biografico Degli Italiani. (1960-)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 39 D648]
This is an example of a national biographical dictionary. When finished, the DBI will be the Italian equivalent to the British Dictionary of National Biography online as Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online). Other national biographical dictionaries exist (consult Guide to Reference Books {Section 1}.
Grosse Künstlerlexika vom 16. bis zum frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Ed. by Ulrich Schütte. Microfiche collection.
[Avery Microfiche FX3 7775: Böhmen, Mähren und die Schweiz; FX3 7776: Italien; FX3 7777: Deutschland und Niederlande; FX3 7778: Frankreich, Spanien, England und Ireland.]
60 early European biographical dictionaries of artists, and art encyclopedias from the 16th to the early 19th centuries.
Havlice, P. Index to Artistic Biography. (1973, suppls. 1981, 2002)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 40 H29...]
Directs reader to entries in 134 standard biographical works.
MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects. 4 vols. (1982)
[Avery Reference AA 31 M223]
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. (1983)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 6536 F4611]
Best source for American artists. Brief entries.
Seymour, N. An Index-Dictionary of Chinese Artists, Collectors, and Connoisseurs with Character Identification by Modified Stroke Count. (1988)
[Starr East Asian Reference N 7348 .S48 1988]
*Thieme-Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 37 vols. (1907-50)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 40 T34]
Known by the editors' surnames. The major biographical dictionary in art history. Signed entries, bibliographies, works lists.
*Vollmer, H. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler des XX. Jahrhunderts. 6 vols. (1953-62)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 40 V8]
Supplements the preceding.
Who Was Who in American Art, 1898-1947. (1985)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 6536 F18]
For dead or retired American artists.
Who's Who in American Art. Annual.
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 50 Am332]
For living American artists.
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