Philip's Links to Cool Art related Sites
(put your arrow on the underlined text & click to go there)

The Frye Art Museum, Seattle  Permanent Collection contains wonderful resin rich oil paintings of The Munich Secession.
(also free parking & great lunches)

Seattle Art Museum & Asian Art Museum great sculpture park, outstanding Asian art exhibitions, & a large collection of Twentieth Century American paintings by Jacob Lawrence and Mark Tobey.

Mark Harden's Artchive  Philip's favorite Art History picture source.

The Uffizi Gallery, Florence  Philip's favorite museum.   Click on the small "thumbnail" pictures to view larger versions of the pictures.

Museo Del Prado, Madrid  Can see exceptionally detailed closeups of paintings via Google Earth: Prado.  1st use of this technology for art. 

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco  Links to the de Young & Legion of Honor Museums, & "the largest searchable art image base in the world"  

The Oakland Museum of California  Art, History and Natural Sciences of California

The San Jose Museum of Art  Contemporary Art & Education. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art  To quote the New York Times: "A site befitting the institution: immense, slow-moving and packed with information and images."

The Louvre  It has virtual tours through the different galleries, and visuals of the pyramid water features.  It has a fine database of all their Art and exhibitions, & well cataloged lectures and programs.  Some of the education sections are only in French. 

The Kyoto National Museum  Works well in English.  "Masterworks" section has highlights of the museum.  "Online Catalog," has a graphic database of the entire collection.

The Tacoma Museum of Glass A wonderful museum, with a huge "hot shop" where you can watch glass art being made.