This guide provides tips on finding background resources through a SMU Library Search. They also provide access to two potentially helpful databases - Oxford Bibliographies and Reference Universe - to use to search for your artist, culture, and/or object type.
Search for cultures, geographical regions, object types, artists/creators, and art movements to access comprehensive overviews, including images, exhibition histories (to a certain point) and bibliographies.
Check if your object has an entry in the most recent general collection guide. To find previous DMA collection guides search SMU Libraries for "Dallas Museum of Art" collection guide.
Provides reference entries for Islamic decorative arts, illuminated books and manuscripts within the Keir Collection. Reach out to Curatorial@dma.org to find out the specific reference entry number.
Search by artist, artwork title, object type, or object number to find your specific DMA object. Note the culture, date, object type or medium, artist/creator (if known). Background information is sometimes provided at the bottom of the record.
Some, but not all, Dallas Museum of Art objects are available to save and download here. ARTstor has a citation generator to help you form an image citation.
Dallas Museum of Art by 
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A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art by 
The Dictionary of British Art by 
A Short Guide to Writing about Art by 
Criticizing Art by 