Welcome toResearch Clinic – Ceramics & Silver

Presented by Spencer Art Reference Library Staff

Marilyn Carbonell, Head Library ServicesAmelia Nelson, Public Service LibrarianTracey Boswell, Reference & Cataloging LibrarianRoberta Wagener, Library Assistant for Reference

Research Clinic Program

• Designing a Research Strategy• Types of resources• Researching your object – examples– Rookwood vase

• Explore the Hidden Life of your Object in the Spencer Art Reference Library

Making Connections

– Artist– Signature– Date– Title– Material– Measurements– Subject – Any history that

you know about your work of art

Rookwood Production ware vaseDesigned by Sarah Toohey, 1930

Making Connections

Research StrategyGeneral

Resources

Books & More

Articles and More

What else is out there?

General ResourcesTypes of Information• Contextual• Biographical• Exhibitions• Bibliography• Style & Signature

– Encyclopedias• Oxford Art Online• Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of

Art History

– Indexes and Biographical Dictionaries• Benezit Dictionary of Artists• Jacobsen's Biographical Index

of American Artists• Index to Artistic Biography• Biographical Dictionary of

Kansas Artists

Books & MoreLibraryOneSearch.nelson-atkins.org• Surveys• Collection Handbooks• Exhibition Catalogs• Biographies• Artist Monographs

– Specific exhibition– Series of work– Overview– Highlights

• Catalogues Raisonnés– Comprehensive

• Correspondences, diaries, letters, writings

Articles and More

LibraryOneSearch.nelson-atkins.org

• Journal Articles– Interviews– Biographical information– New theories and findings– Exhibition reviews

• Newspapers– Obituaries

Art Sales• Auction catalogs– Library catalog

• Art Sales Databases– Library databases

What else is out there?

• Museum collections• Newspapers• Public libraries• Special Collections• Historical Societies• Archives• Google & Google

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Need more?Spencer Art Reference LibraryContact:Reference Desk, 816.751.1216

Marilyn Carbonell, Head, Library ServicesAmelia Nelson, Librarian, Public Services Tracey Boswell, Catalog/Reference LibrarianLihui Xiong, Library Cataloging Assistant for Asian LanguagesRoberta Wagener, Assistant, Public Services

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Where we’ll help you use these resources to learn about your object!