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Created and maintained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, their collection is represented through detailed timelines, maps, thematic essays, and the individual works themselves. This is a great resource to help you become familiar with the type of art produced in a specific time period or in a specific geographical location. It includes essays written by experts as well as related resources to help you along in your research.

Learn about Modern Art: includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art created during that era.

You can walk through thousands of museums across the world and take up-close and personal looks at individual works in detail usually only possible in person. You can search by museum, artist, or artwork and narrow your search by medium, geographic location, time period, and more. You can also save your favorites to your own personal “gallery” and compare works side by side in close detail.

Access 100 profiles of featured women artists from over 600 years included in the NMWA collection.