.Links to Fine Art Galleries
&
Ethnic Arts
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This online art gallery of contemporary fine art includes sensuous figures, still lifes, abstracts, portraits, and more in painting, pastel, drawing, collage, and sculpture.

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These contemporary fine art galleries and ethnic arts links are very selective. My goal is to save you time by presenting only online galleries and fine-art sites that I think are excellent resources. They must be superior in content and viewer-friendly. (However, please be aware that I have no experience buying anything from these sites, and the business aspect is not part of my selection criteria.)

In many cases I speed things along by linking directly to the page that presents the work; if you are interested in the rest of the site, you can always follow a HOME link on the site, or truncate the URL in the address/location bar to the domain name (.com, etc.)

In addition to selecting for quality, I have selected only types of art that I personally like. But my interests and taste in art are rather eclectic, so you will find a variety of art and galleries here. And of course, I add new links I find them, and suggestions are always welcome, as are notifications of broken links! Please contact me with your feedback.

Don't forget to visit my individual artists links! Also, did you know you can do an image search online through Google? This is an extremely fast and efficient way to find images fitting the description you enter as keywords.




Contemporary Fine Art Galleries

Ethnic Arts: Galleries and Visual Artists

African Art
Asian Art
(except Japanese)
Australian Aboriginal Art
Japanese Art
Pacific Northwest Indian Art



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Contemporary Fine Art Galleries


dART: The Internet Art Database (http://dart.fine-art.com)

Excellent art of all kinds. An eclectic collection! Very organized gallery. The index search allows detailed searching by both subject and media (in the drop-down menu). The gallery also has two- and three-dimensional arts and crafts, prints, and posters. (2/09)

Excellent art of all kinds in this online gallery, though I tend to find less here that I personally like. Has the most detailed search function, allowing multiple selections by subject, media, size, price, and color. Allows you to save your favorites in different collections. But the site is somewhat difficult to use. (2/09)

The Guild: The Artful Home (www.guild.com/)

This gallery is geared toward the home designer and has beautiful fine art craft media like textiles, basketry, glass, and ceramics, as well as paintings, prints, and fine art photography. The collection is well juried and high quality. (2/09)

PaintingsDirect (www.paintingsdirect.com/)

Excellent juried work, very organized, broken down by subject, media, and artist. (2/09)

    











Ethnic Arts


African Art


African Art from the Bayly Museum (listed by tribal/ethnic group) (http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/Bayly/Bayly.html)

Nice collection of small images and enlargements of traditional artifacts sorted by the major tribal groups in Africa (by name, not by images, unfortunately). A good overview of various styles and forms, if you want to search by tribal group. (2/09)

Many online galleries showcase modern SHONA SCULPTURE from Zimbabwe, striking bold and abstract sculpture in soapstone, serpentine, and other soft stones. Following are two of these sites, and many more can be found by searching for "Shona Sculpture" in Google:

Kara Art (http://karaart.com/collections/shona/african.art.01.html) (2/09)

Azani Stone Gallery (http://azani.com/abstractcreations.htm) (2/09)

Course in African Art by Benjamin Caleb Ray (http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/rela345_98.html#webart)

I don't know how long this will be online, but this undergraduate course outline has a list of links to information on African art on the web. (2/09)

    


Asian Art
(except Japanese)


The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art: Online Exhibitions (http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/#anchor1723219)

Interesting collection of online exhibitions gathered from various museums, from calligraphy to jade to basketmaking. Something to explore! (2/09)

Mohan's Hindu Image Gallery (www.hindugallery.com)

Many images of Hindu dieties and personages. Interesting site. Numerous enlargements of each figure open from diety names instead of from thumbnails, so it's not intended for visual navigation. (2/09)

Persian Miniatures (http://persia.org/Images/Miniature/)

A page of thumbnails leads to big enlargements of varying though basically very good quality. (Due to the detail in this type of work, enlargements take longer to load than with other types of art.) (2/09)

Persian Painting (www.mirror.org/greg.roberts)

A fun site! Good-sized images and excellent enlargements assembled by a lover of these paintings. Each piece has a description of the story and the artist, and other information. (2/09)


Australian Aboriginal Art


Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr (www.aboriginal-art.de/art_eng)

A German gallery presents aboriginal paintings of the dot style. Click the little arrows to see the paintings one by one. (2/09)

    


Japanese Art


Ukiyo-e Site of Hans Olof Johansson (www.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e)

A wonderful site including not only a gallery of traditional ukiyo-e prints by the masters and others, but also links to other sites on ukiyo-e, and question/answer board, and other resources. A great place to start. (2/09)

Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery (www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ukiyoe/ukiyoe.html)

Another fine site with a gallery of prints and links to other ukiyo-e websites. (2/09)

Stuart Jackson Gallery (http://jacksonarts.com)

A beautiful commercial gallery of various styles of ukiyo-e prints. Woodblock prints were produced in large quantities over the centuries, and I noticed while in Japan that antique Japanese prints are still quite affordable. (2/09)

Carolyn Staley Fine Prints (www.carolynstaleyprints.com/index.html)

This fun commercial gallery has a great number of prints organized by artist and subject, the latter being useful for those who don't know where to start with Japanese prints. One drawback to this site is that the thumbnails are somewhat small. (2/09)

Viewing Japanese Prints by John Fiorillo
(http://www.viewingjapaneseprints.net)

This thorough, educational site gives a great overview of different types of Japanese prints and the famous artists, with a few contemporary artists and information on printmaking techniques, among other things. However, the site is not set up as a gallery, and is more oriented toward informational text than quick browsing of images. (2/09)

Japan Print Gallery (www.japaneseprints.net)

A commercial gallery with a huge selection of traditional Japanese prints by all the famous artists. Outstanding thumbnails and enlargements. You must select the name of the artist before seeing the images. (2/09)

    


Pacific Northwest Indian Art


Shotridge Gallery: one-person gallery (http://www.shotridgestudios.com/)

Fine wood carvings in the traditional Tlingit style. This online gallery is geared more toward display than sales. (2/09)

Marvin Oliver:one-person gallery (http://www.marvinoliver.com/serigraphs/index.html)

Art in the classical Northwest Coast Indian style. Eloquent and original sculpture and elegant though more predictable prints. (2/09)

    




updated 2009
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