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Finding an Obscure Artist
One way to find an obscure artist, browse through the following website:
Web Museum artist index
Be sure your choice is a nineteenth century European artist.
Another good way to find an artist is to check out smaller museums:
Global Museum
Fogg Museum
Museum of Fine Arts
Worcester Art Museum
University of Michigan's Online Museum Directory
Or Exhibition Catalogs:
Sotheby's
Christies
The City Review - look under Art/Auctions Section
Art Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Grove Dictionary of Art.
Excellent resource to get started with!
Finding Books
If you want to visit the library and browse though the art collection, head up to the third floor. Fine Arts Call number range: N, Architecture NA, Sculpture NC, Painting ND. If you find an entire book on one artist, chances are s/he is not considered obsure. Try to find collected works of art such as the following items that are at information desk 1 on reserve for your class:
N6757.B65
Art nouveau, 1870-1914 / by Jean-Paul Bouillon
ND450.F64
European paintings before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum : a summary catalogue including paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum / Edgar Peters Bowron N6450 .E374
Nineteenth century art : a critical history / Stephen F. Eisenman ND457 .E38
An outline of 19th century European painting : from David through Cezanne : text and plates / Lorenz Eitner N6757.5 .M63 H36
Painting and sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940 / George Heard Hamilton ND467.C45
Painting women : Victorian women artists / Deborah Cherry ND547.5.I4 S4713
Phaidon encyclopedia of impressionism / Maurice Serullaz ND547.5.I4 G37
Women impressionists / Tamar Garb
Use the WEBnet online library catalog to find books and other library materials available at the Horn Library and the Bentley, Olin, Pine Manor, and Regis College libraries. You can use your Babson OneCard to check out materials at these libraries, or stop at the Information Desk and request that the books be delivered to Babson. It usually takes 2-3 business days to get books from other WEBnet libraries. Try FirstSearch, the WorldCat database, or even bn.com or amazon.com to find out if there are any books that may be useful. If you find titles of interest, request them through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). ILL may take a few weeks so start your research early.
If you find a book that you want to get from Amazon, or some other source - watch this Quick Tutorial on how to get to find books.
Finding Articles
- FirstSearch.
- There are a few databases in the Arts and Humanities section that you should try including:
- Arts & Humanities Search
- WilsonSelect (has some full text journals not available in any other database)
- Tips for searching FirstSearch:
Use advanced search, and search the title of the work as a DESCRIPTOR or SUBJECT. Look through your results and limit, if need be, by using keywords found in the descriptor field of the records. If you get no results, think creatively and use synonyms. Sometimes you may have to search for concepts instead of the work itself. Use this technique in the other databases listed below as well.
If you are only finding a citation or abstract... check out the Quick Tutorial on Finding Articles for step-by-step instructions for getting your article.
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InfoTrac Academic Search ASAP. - Abstracts and some full text of scholarly journals and periodicals.
Interlibrary Loan
You may have to use Interlibrary Loan to order articles that Babson does not own. It's a simple process and free of charge! Copy & paste your article citation into the online cut & paste form that you get to by clicking on Books, Etc, Interlibrary Loan from web site. It may take two weeks to receive the article(s) or books so make sure you don't wait until the last minute! | 
