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Library Exhibits at the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library: Showing Off a Museum's Collections

"Showing Off a Museum's Collections" curated by Karyn Hinkle: on display at the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library in Spring 2017

Exhibition Catalogues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

New 2016 publication:

Compare to one from 1940:

Exhibition Catalogues at the Prado

New 2016 publication:

Compare to one from 1907:

Other collections catalogues currently on display:

19th century publishing, 1860s-1900s

Guide Through the Galleries of Paintings of the Imperial Museum of the Louvre
Paris, C. de Mourgues Brothers, 1869

Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove
Glasgow, R. Anderson, 1906

The Art of the Vatican by Mary Knight Potter
Boston, L. C. Page & Company, 1903

Katalog der gemalde-­sammlung der Kgl. alteren pinakothek in München
Munich, Bruckmann, c. 1880s

International catalogues, 1910s-1960s

Il museo del Bargello a Firenze
Milan, Garzanti, 1952

Katalog der Gemäldegalerie
Vienna, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 1961

Führer durch die Sammlungen
Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum, 1958

The National Museum General Guide
Copenhagen National Museum, 1948

Catalogue of Pictures in the Africana Museum (5 vols)
Johannesburg, Africana Museum, 1966

Brussels, Antwerp (New Guides to Old Masters series)
New York, Scribner, 1914

[Kratkiĭ putevoditelʹ po muzei︠u︡]
Leningrad, The Hermitage Museum, 1959

Die Gemäldegalerie (5 vols)
Berlin, State Museum, 1929-1933

American graphic design, 1930s-1960s

Handbook of the Collections of the City Art Museum
City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1944

Catalogue of the Water Color Paintings, Pastels, and Drawings in the Permanent Collections of the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum Department of Fine Arts, 1932

A Guide to the Collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati Museum Association, 1952

Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art, 1942;
2nd ed.1948

Showing Off a Museum's Collections links

Collections online at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Collections online at the Prado

InfoKat Discovery, the University of Kentucky Libraries’ online discovery tool at libraries.uky.edu