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| � Biographical Research on Nineteeth-Century Americans | |||||||||||||||||
| Check the general works, artist-specific works, and author-specific works | |||||||||||||||||
| General works | |||||||||||||||||
| Adams, Oscar.� Dictionary of American Authors.� 5th ed. Revised & enlarged. Houghton Mifflin, 1904.� Reprinted by Detroit: Gale Research, 1969.� IUB Location: Main Reference, PS21.A25.� | |||||||||||||||||
| American Biographical Archive (ABA), Series I (19th C) and Series II (20th C): New York: Saur, 1998.� Indexed by American Biographical Index. | |||||||||||||||||
| American Biographical Index(ABI) compiled by Laureen Baillie, Munich: K.G. Saur, 1993-. IUB Location: Main Reference, CT213 .A64 1998.� A complete index to the ABA, and references to other sources of information.� A very helpful guide- should be a first step. | |||||||||||||||||
| American Leaders, 1789-1994: a biographical summary.� Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1994. 24 volumes. IUB Location: Main Stacks, E176 .A59 1994. | |||||||||||||||||
| American national biography.� Ed. John Garraty & Mark Carnes.� New York: Oxford UP, 1999.� 4 volumes.� IUB Location: Main Ref CT213.A68 1999.� | |||||||||||||||||
| Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, ed. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske.� NY: Appleton, 1888.� Reprinted: Detroit: Gale, 1969.� Multivolume.�� IUB Location: Main Reference, E176.A666 There are many editions of this work, any of which can be useful. | |||||||||||||||||
| Dictionary of American Biography (DAB).� Comprehensive Index NY: Scribner's, 1996.� IUB Location: Main Reference, CT213 .D522.� Indexes all editions of the DAB. | |||||||||||||||||
| Dictionary of American Biography.� Various editions.� Multivolume.� Covers most of the more prominent folks of the day, varying with the years of the edition.� If you don?t find someone here, go to the ABI.� | |||||||||||||||||
| �Encyclopedia of American Biography, ed. John Garraty and Jerome Sternstein.� New York: HarperCollins, 1996.� 4 volumes.� IUB Location: Main Ref CT213 .E53 1996.� | |||||||||||||||||
| Herringshaw, Thomas W.� Herringshaw?s encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century.� Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1907.� Indexed in ABI. | |||||||||||||||||
| The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson. �NY: Scribner?s, 1998.� �IUB Location: Main Reference CT213.S37 1998. | |||||||||||||||||
| Artist Dictionaries and Exhibition Records | |||||||||||||||||
| AskArt.com | |||||||||||||||||
| Benezit, Emmanuel.� Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps de tous les pays.� New edition, Paris: Grund, 1999.� 14 volumes.� (Several earlier editions of use as well).� IUB Location: Main Reference, N40 .B47 1999.� Useful basic info and pointers to other sources. | |||||||||||||||||
| Clark, Eliot.� History of the National Academy of Design. NY: Columbia, 1954. | |||||||||||||||||
| Cummings, Thomas Historic annals of the National Academy of Design. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1969. | |||||||||||||||||
| Fielding, Mantle.� Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, ed. Glenn B. Opitz.� Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1986.� IUB Locations: Main Reference & Fine Arts Red Reference, N6536 .F5 1986.� An oldie but goodie, updated.� Earlier versions can also be useful.� Indexed in ABI, also cross-referenced in Who Was Who in American Art. | |||||||||||||||||
| French, Harry W.� Art and Artists in Connecticut.� Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879.� Fine Arts: N6530.C8F8.� You never know who will show up in this little book. | |||||||||||||||||
| Groce & Wallace, The New York Historical Society?s Dictionary of Artists in America.� New Haven: Yale, 1957.� IUB Location: Main Reference, 6536.N56 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge.� Mallett's Index of Artists: international-biographical: including painters, sculptors, illustrators, engravers and etchers of the past and present.� New York: Bowker, 1935.� IUB Location: Main Reference, N50.M2. | |||||||||||||||||
| Soria, Regina.� American artists of Italian Heritage, 1776-1945, a biographical dictionary.� Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson, 1993.� IUB Location: Fine Arts Reference, N6538.I8.S67 1993. | |||||||||||||||||
| Soria, Regina.� Dictionary of nineteenth-century American artists in Italy, 1760-1914.� Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson U Press, 1982.� IUB Location: Fine Arts Reference, N6917.5.R6 S67 1982. A good, comprehensive dictionary of people who worked in italy, with lots of cross references and references to archival sources.� | |||||||||||||||||
| Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker.� Allgemeines Lexikon der bilder bildenden K�nstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart; unter Mitwirkung von 320 Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes.� (Thieme-Becker).� Leipzig: EA Seeman, 1908-1933. IUB Location: Fine Arts Reference, N40.T4 The granddaddy of all artists dictionaries.� Easy to use even without knowledge of German.� Includes references to other sources of information. | |||||||||||||||||
| Who was who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 years of artists in America.� Ed. Peter Hastings Falk.� Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999.� IUB Locations: Main Reference & Fine Arts Red Reference, N6536 .W56 1999.� A really comprehensive listing of American artists, including the very obscure.� A good one to check first thing.� Includes cross-references.� | |||||||||||||||||