Art and Design Subject Guide for Ballyfermot students

A very well researched source on South African architects and architects who have worked in the country

A very useful source of biographical information on thousands of artists with examples of their work. This is a subscription service but is free to access on Fridays.

Compiled by the National Gallery of Australia. Contains a wealth of information on who designed costumes for the Ballets Russes.

This website is intended to be an authoritative work of reference for the history of Canadian architecture during the study period of 1800 to 1950, and it contains biographies of over 2,500 architects who lived and worked in Canada as well as those architects who resided in the United States, Britain and elsewhere, and for whom it is now possible to link their names with buildings constructed in this country.

Detailed biographical information on artists associated with Cornwall

Compiled by the University of Glasgow. Contains biographical information on people who corresponded with Whistler, and there were a lot of them

Biographical information on leading fashion designers

Contains biographical information of hundreds of American pulp fiction artists with examples of their work

Contains biographical information on nearly 19,000 NZ artists

Compiled by Virginia Tech

Contains full scans of the German art magazine Jugend from 1896 to 1940. A good source on German Art Nouveau. Click Blättern in the menu to see the scans

Biographical information on nearly 14,000 comic artists and cartoonists

Biographical data on artists who designed graphics for LT with examples of their work

Biographical data on artists who designed graphics for LT with examples of their work

Invaluable source of biographical information on British and Irish sculptors over a period of a hundred years

Biographical information on Italian posters with thumbnail images of their work

International biographical information on postcard artists with examples of their work.

Contains biographical information on thousands of silversmiths and jewellery designers

Artists who designed covers for Penguin Books, with examples of their work

A commercial site that sells British political cartoons. As well as cartoons for sale they have archive the cartoons they’ve sold.

Contains biographical data on of thousands of designers

Contain full scans of the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus from 1896 to 1944, with biographical information on its contributors. Click Blättern in the menu to see the scans.

Detailed biographical information on artists associated with Suffolk

Gazetteer compiled by the Tiles & Architectural Ceramics Society

A good source for research on New Zealand Artists.

A state-by-state record of murals painted Works Progress Administration artists with biographical data and some images