Art & Art History: About

• Honolulu Museum of Art 
• Hawai‘i State Foundation for the Culture and the Arts
• John Young Museum of Art
• Shangri La Center for Islamic Arts and Cultures

Welcome! This guide can support you with resources about art and art history, including links to resources about fine arts. 

Click on the tabs above (or on the links below) to view this guide's pages featuring a variety of art resources to find:

• Background information -- including dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies
• Books -- from our print and electronic collections
• Articles -- from our library databases, including articles published in journals, magazines and newspapers
• Tutorials, handbooks, etc -- available from our print and electronic book collections and streaming video collections
• Online Collections & Images -- digital collections, repositories and other collections available on the web

Click on the following links to some national and international art museums websites that include online galleries, digital collections and/or other resources about art and art history.

• National Gallery of Art 
• MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) 
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
• The J. Paul Getty Museum 
• Smithsonian American Art Museum 
• Louvre Museum 
• National Gallery, London : Learn about art 
• Museo del Prado (Spain) [EN]

Our Reference Desk is in room BE-228 during Summer 2025. (temporary location during the renovation).

Phone: (808)455-0379
E-mail: lccref@hawaii.edu

Please contact us if you need help.