* Art & Art History: Visual Art Research at UK

Art & Visual Studies Building
236 Bolivar Street
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0022

859-257-8151
art@uky.edu

Here is the mother ship for art reseach on campus. The Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library holds almost 100,000 volumes on visual art, including artists' catalogues raisonnes, technique and technical materials about how to make art, exhibition catalogues for museum and gallery shows published from the late 18th C to the present, academic art history books, essential reference books, and art periodicals like visual art magazines and fine arts journals.

The Design Library, located in the College of Design's Pence Hall, houses materials on architecture and design and is used frequently by members of the College of Fine Arts.

Sometimes duplicate copies of standard or important art books from the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library are also located at Young Library. And many books on literature, history, and interdisciplinary topics that are important for the study of art history are found in the collections at Young.

The SCRC includes the Breckenridge research room, collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, and University Archives & Records. Many items of interest for art and art history are kept in the special collections library.