• Nettrekker—Access from Kingswood Library Media Center Homepage (side bar) This service yields great results.  Click on “for schools” (classic), then click on “Arts”, then “visual art”, then “famous artists” or “works” and a huge list of options is the result.  The artists list provides access to the various schools of art and movements such as impressionism.  This search results offered vary from repositories of images and annotated slide shows to brief biographies or lengthier Ibiblios, which also contain a few images.

• Grolier Online Encyclopedia—Access from Kingswood Library Media Center Homepage (side bar) Click on “Multimedia”.  From there, conduct a simple search.  This versatile site then offers you several options:  related web links or periodicals or a more advanced search.  The images it offers are excellent, as well.

• Librarians’ Internet Index—http://lii.org An excellent database of infinite sites.

• NoodleQuest—An excellent site.  By answering a few simple research questions, you provide parameters to narrow your art search.  The result is either a list of reputable sites and a scale of relevance for each or a more specific search.

• Virtual LRC—This portal allows you to access not only articles and documents, but databases, gateways and search engines.  Incredibly helpful.  For instance, by typing in impressionism, the result was limited to 80 hits pwered by the Fast Meta Search Engine.

• Fast Meta Search Engine—A strong search engine.

• Clusty—This engine allows you to enter a key word and provides you with clusters related to your topic.

            You will find that many of these sites will surface if you use the services annotated above.  The benefits of using a reputable search engine, portal or gateway makes finding anything more thorough and specific.  This will eliminate the overwhelming results often obtained by doing a nebulous google search yielding 1,000s of hits!

• NYPL’s Digital Gallery—http://digitalgallery.nypl.org Thumbnail images with enlarging capabilities.
• Answers.com Allows you to cross-reference within this sole site.
• Artcyclopedia—http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists  (The Fine Arts Search Engine)  This engine offers you a myriad of items: paintings in museums and galleries, links, image archives, and articles.  You may search by artist’s name, titled artwork, museums, movements, medium or nationality.  Caution:  some of the sites that result from your Artcyclopeida search are actual auctions.
•  Metropolitan Museum--Metmuseum.org  This site offers incredible on-line gallery tours and allows you to search for specific works or special exhibitions.
• van Gogh Museum—www2.vangoghmuseum.nl  This site offers exceptional audio/video tours of Van Gogh’s work and life as well as a research tool taking you to an excellent library.
• Vincent van Gogh Gallery—www.vggallery.com Wow! This site has so much to offer from his juvenile work to his later pieces.  Also included are correspondence between himself and his family.  A huge glimpse into the life of a remarkable artist.
• Internet Public Library—http://www.ipl.org
• Art Movements Directory—http://www.artmovements.co.uk/home.htm
• WebMuseum—http://www.southern.com/wm
• Picsearch—www.picsearch.com  A search will result in a number of thumbnail images.  Click on one and usually a helpful document pops up underneath the image and may even offer links.
• Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia—http://en.wikipedia.org A superb site offering subject overviews, beginnings, techniques of art style, list of artists and external links.