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Fine Art

Liaison Librarian

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Cory Laverty
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This is a selective guide to research in Fine Art (Visual Art).  

Connect to the proxy server using your NetID and password for Library access off-campus.  

Queen's Outdoor Campus Art Tour. Queen’s Agnes Etherington Art Centre searchable art database. Read about the Agnes collection of 600 three-dimensional pieces of African art that originate from 19 West African countries.

Canadian Library Porject bookshelf with books covered in Indigenous fabrics.

The Canadian Library Project art installation covers books in Indigenous fabrics as a memorial to Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls.

Related Subject Guides

Art Conservation

Art History

Art History and Art Conservation Style Guide: All ARTH and ARTC students are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines and use them correctly in written assignments

Citing & Citation Management

Library of Congress Fine Arts Classification

All "N" Fine Arts material is held in the Stauffer Art Collection on the 2nd floor, also some Q's. Use LC classifications to browse art subjects in the physical stacks. Note Virtual Browse function at bottom of Omni screens.

N: Visual arts
NA: Architecture
NB: Sculpture
NC: Drawing. Design. Illustration
ND: Painting
NE: Print media. Printmaking and engraving
NK: Decorative arts. Applied arts. Decoration and ornament
NX: Arts in general (two or more of the fine arts media)
TR: Photography
BH: Aesthetics
QC: Pigments
QK: Botanical illustration