----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ARLIS Colleagues; Both University and Museum sites will have a lot of this information. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. http://www.nga.gov/ gives biographical information free of charge. The Frick web site http://www.frick.org which is scheduled to debut on June 15th will have brief biographical data (which meets your stated criteria) for all of the artists represented in our collection free of charge. Almost every museum or university art department site will offer A good way to find art historical information is by using guides to internet resources which have been prepared by librarians or historians. There are some excellent guides to resources. Here are just a small sample from my own bookmark. Each of these sites contains many indexed and annotated art history sites. * ArtSource http://www.uky.edu/Artsource/artsourcehome.html * Art History Resources http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks4.html * Index of Resources for Historians http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/history/index.html * ART HISTORY WWW RESOURCES http://rubens.anu.edu.au/chart/duffy2.html * Kunst und Kunstgeschicte http://www.phil.uni-sb.de/FR/Kunst/ * The Mother of all Art History Pages http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amidkiff/mother/ * The PartheNet http://home.mtholyoke.edu/~klconner/parthenet.html * University of Massachusetts at Amherst Art History Links http://www.umass.edu/arthist/links.html * The History of Art Virtual Library http://www.hart.bbk.ac.uk/VirtualLibrary.html Floyd Thomas Sweeting III, Head, Information Systems Department The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library 10 E. 71st Street, New York, NY 10021 Tel: 212-288-0700 x289 Fax: 212-879-2091 Email: [log in to unmask]