The Artists in Canada database is a comprehensive information tool that isunique to artists in Canada. It provides brief biographical information as wellas the location of physical (analog) artist files held at various institutionsthroughout Canada. This recent article, published in … Continue reading
The Canadian Women Artists History Initiative (CWAHI) grew out of Concordia University Visual Arts librarian Melinda Reinhart’s intention to create an online bio/bibliography of women artists in Canada. Concordia Slide Librarian, Janice Anderson, and Concordia Professor Kristina Huneault joined the … Continue reading
Hello! We are Sara and John, two Canadian art librarians representing the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia) and Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec) respectively. Throughout our careers, we have both worked in libraries that have extensive artist file holdings. … Continue reading
The artist files community owes a debt to Scott Grant Barker, a respected scholar of early-to-mid-twentieth century Fort Worth art, who has authored or contributed to over twenty-one titles on the topic. During the course of his research, he also … Continue reading
Artist files are critical for supporting research on local artists. Melissa Bowden, a participant at a recent Amon Carter Museum of American Art Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, used the museum’s file on Cynthia Brants, a member of the Fort Worth Circle, to … Continue reading
Sydney Fitzgibbon, art history student at Texas Christian University, analyzes material in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s artist file on Albert Bierstadt. Over the years, museum staff have developed an extensive set of documents on Bierstadt, a key … Continue reading