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*Art History: General Research Guide

Citing Images

Chicago Manual of Style

In the humanities, citations are provided in footnotes or endnotes along with the bibliography.  Images can be cited using captions or in a bibliography.  Check with your instructor for the correct manner.

 Bibliographic entry – general

Gogh, Vincent van.  The Starry Night.  1889. Oil on canvas.  29 in. x 36 ¼ in.  Museum of Modern Art, New York.

 Footnote/endnote – general

18Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, 29 in. x 36 ¼ in., Museum of Modern Art, New York.

 Caption – general

*note: captions can be done as figure, fig., illustration, or ill.

 Fig. 1: Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, 29 in. x 36 ¼ in., Museum of Modern Art, New York.

 Bibliographic entry – online (websites or databases)

Duveneck, Frank.  Whistling Boy, 1872.  Oil on canvas, 28 in. x 21 ½ in.  Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati.  <http://cincinnatiartmuseum.stores.yahoo.net/frduwhboy.html>, accessed 12 Aug. 2007.

 Footnote/endnote – online (websites or databases)

4Henri Matisse, The Woman with the Hat, 1905, oil on canvas, 81.3 cm x 60.3 cm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.

 Caption – online (websites or databases)

Ill. 1: Frank Duveneck, Whistling Boy, 1872, oil on canvas, 28 in. x 21 ½ in.  Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, <http://cincinnatiartmuseum.stores.yahoo.net/frduwhboy.html>

 Bibliographic entry – slide in the library

Gris, Juan.  Newspaper and Fruit Dish, 1916. Oil on canvas. 18 1/8 in. x 14 7/8 in.  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.  University of Cincinnati, OH: Visual Resources Center, 2005, slides.

  Credit lines

 Images with copyright restrictions

Reproduced with permission from Jan Newstrom Thompson, Duveneck: Last Paintings Found  (Santa Clara, CA: Triton Museum of Art, 1987), 55, © 1987 by Triton Museum of Art.

 

Other Misc. Citation Information

Chicago:

Article on Website:

Celaya, Nora Martinez. "Enrique Martínez Celaya – Empires: Land and Sea at Jack Shainman Gallery." Daily Serving RSS. October 22, 2015. Accessed November 02, 2015. http://dailyserving.com/2015/10/enrique-martinez-celaya-empires-land-and-empires-sea-at-jack-shainman-gallery/

Online Magazine Article:

YoungSmith, Barron. Green Room. Slate, February 4, 2009. http://www.slate.com/id/2202431/.

Exhibition Brochures, Pamphlets are treated like books:

Author's Last and First Names or Name of Organisation (if available). Title of Pamphlet. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication (if available).

SUNY Cortland Dowd Gallery. Natural States: Co-curated by Nati Hyojin Kim and Santiago Garcia, Mixed Greens GYC, October 26-December 11, 2015. Cortland: Dowd Gallery, 2015. Exhibition Brochure.

Lectures/Presentations:

Hanstedt, Paul. “This is Your Brain on Writing: The Implications of James Zull’s The Art of Changing the Brain for the Writing Classroom.” Presentation at the Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 11-14, 2009.

Kathryn Kramer, "Modernism and the Avant-Garde" (Lecture, SUNY Cortland, Cortland NY, September 15, 2015)

Blogs/Facebook Posts. Similar to Periodical Articles:

Barack Obama's Facebook page, accessed July 20, 2012, http://www.facebook.com/barackobama

SUNY Cortland ATH 427-001 Discussion Blog; "Modernism and the Avant-Garde," blog entry by Kathryn Kramer, September 23,     2015.