The Research
Library of the National
Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
holds resources related to the history of Western art and its
ancillary disciplines, provides resources for the advancement of work
by museum staff members, and aids in survey research done by curators
and scholars from other institutions.
Subject fields: Western
art and art history from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.
Searchable holdings
(03/2012): 45,000 bibliographic records, including monographs,
exhibition catalogues, catalogues raisonnés, microforms, and
ephemera files relating to individual artists, 2,700 periodicals (370
current).
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