History of Illustration - ILLU 505 - Influences in Illustration - Research Guides at Savannah College of Art and Design

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Highlighted Resource

Norman Rockwell Museum: Illustration History
Resource and archive covering illustration history, genres, and artists. Short essays are illustrated by image galleries, with related essays linked on each page.

Course Textbook

Illustration: A Visual History by Seymour Chwast & Steven Heller This unique visual history of the art of illustration, by the foremost historian of graphic design and a well-known illustrator and designer, is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in art, design, and popular culture. Illustration has long been a significant popular art and is often more visible, recognizable, and memorable than "high" art.

History of Illustration Books

Databases

Looking for more on a period or artist? Visit these background information sources:

Smarthistory This link opens in a new window
Online art history textbook containing hundreds of videos, essays, and images of major periods, themes, and artists around the world from ancient to contemporary.

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
An encyclopedic resource covering the history of art with an emphasis on western art.
Oxford Art Online is comprised of the Oxford Dictionary of Art, the Grove Encyclopedia of Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art and includes an image library. This database provides peer-reviewed articles written by experts in the field to introduce key topics, themes, figures, and movements in the history of art. For help using Oxford Art Online, search SCAD Libraries' FAQ, or use the chat feature to contact library staff.

Images

Looking for more visual inspiration from the history of illustration? Visit these image collections:

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Database containing full-text articles from scholarly journals and images from institutions around the world covering a variety of subjects.
JSTOR includes digitized articles from back issues of academic journals as well as book chapters, ebooks, abstracts, and primary sources from the humanities and social sciences. For help using JSTOR, search SCAD Libraries' FAQ, or use the chat feature to contact library staff.
David Rumsey Visual Collections This link opens in a new window
Website with maps, fine art, photographs, architecture, and other visual material from museums, private collections, and universities around the world.
The Visual Collections website presented by Cartography Associates contains over fifty digital image collections from museums, universities, and private collections around the world. Users can search through multiple collections ranging from antiquity to the present for a particular artist, time period, or medium.
Europeana This link opens in a new window
Online hub for digitized content, such as ebooks, music, and artwork from thousands of European cultural institutions. Visit this link to browse illustration only: https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/40-illustration
Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries, and museums to share cultural heritage resources for enjoyment, education, and research purposes. Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks, and more with easy-to-use search and filter tools. For more information about using Europeana, visit Europeana Help.
Images from Life This link opens in a new window
SCAD image database of illustrations and advertisements from the original Life magazine between 1883 and 1936.
Life magazine during the coverage period of this database addressed issues of politics, fashion, society, religion, and literature. Many famous illustrators and authors were contributors to Life, such as Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rockwell, and Theodor Seuss Geisel. For more information about SCAD special collections databases, visit the SCAD Special Collections Guide.
Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Repository for digitized images and documents in the Library of Congress' collections.
The Library of Congress Digital Collections is a repository of digitized images and documents from the Library of Congress. This database includes nearly 500 collections on a variety of topics, with strong digitized records of American history, culture, music, law, print media, the natural world, and the built environment. In addition to still images and text documents, this database includes the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Collections.
Smithsonian Institution: Collections Search Center This link opens in a new window
Online repository of articles, images, videos, sound files, and other resources from the Smithsonian Institutes museums, archives, and libraries.
Visual Arts Data Service This link opens in a new window
Image database of over 140,000 images from visual art collections across the UK.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) is an image database providing access to over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections from across the United Kingdom. The images span various art disciplines including applied arts, architecture, design, fashion, fine art, and media. This collection provides access to images that may be used for non-commercial, educational use. VADS is managed by the University for the Creative Arts Library.
Google Arts & Culture This link opens in a new window
Media library containing interactive images and video of artworks, cultural sites, and artifacts from around the world.
Google Arts & Culture collects high-quality media from partner museums and archives around the world, including artworks, interpretive videos, and 360-degree experiences of cultural sites. This database features content from over 2,000 leading institutions who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's museums, archives, and cultural sites to a single virtual home.