The Sherman Art Library houses collections related to art, art history, photography, architecture, and handmade artists' books. Sherman Art Library supports all academic departments.
Sherman's three floors include the beautiful art reference room, the art special collection, and two lower floors of art books of journals to borrow.
Art Special Collection
Art Special Collection
The Art Special Collection at Dartmouth Libraries focuses on preserving rare art texts and unique art publications. The large collection of handmade artists’ books from around the world that is curated to support interdisciplinary scholarship. In addition, the collection of manuscript facsimiles is vital for research and curricular assignments across academic departments.
Within Art Special Collection
Artists' Books
The Artist Book Collection comprises specially bound, limited‑edition, or one‑of‑a‑kind books created as artworks, offering scholars and visitors a tactile archive of experimental publishing and visual‑art practices.
Artists' Books
The Artist Book Collection comprises specially bound, limited‑edition, or one‑of‑a‑kind books created as artworks, offering scholars and visitors a tactile archive of experimental publishing and visual‑art practices.
Catalog Raisonée
The Catalog Raisonnée Collection gathers published and unpublished comprehensive, annotated listings of all known works by individual artists, providing an authoritative, provenance‑verified reference for scholars, curators, and collectors.
Catalog Raisonée
The Catalog Raisonnée Collection gathers published and unpublished comprehensive, annotated listings of all known works by individual artists, providing an authoritative, provenance‑verified reference for scholars, curators, and collectors.
Manuscript Facsimiles
The Manuscript Facsimile Collection offers high‑quality reproductions of rare handwritten documents, drafts, and archival texts, enabling scholars to study original manuscript materials without handling the fragile originals.
Manuscript Facsimiles
The Manuscript Facsimile Collection offers high‑quality reproductions of rare handwritten documents, drafts, and archival texts, enabling scholars to study original manuscript materials without handling the fragile originals.
Chinese Graphic Novels
The Chinese Graphic Novels Collection assembles a curated range of Mandarin‑language comics, manhua, and translated graphic‑novel works, providing scholars and readers with access to contemporary and historic Chinese visual storytelling and its cultural, artistic, and literary contexts.
Chinese Graphic Novels
The Chinese Graphic Novels Collection assembles a curated range of Mandarin‑language comics, manhua, and translated graphic‑novel works, providing scholars and readers with access to contemporary and historic Chinese visual storytelling and its cultural, artistic, and literary contexts.
The Art Journals Collection
The Art Journals Collection
The collection of art journals includes scholarly periodicals and art magazines covering all eras, regions, and media of visual art, providing researchers and students with current scholarship, critical discourse, and exhibition reviews.
Art History Reference Collection
The art reference collection includes important print and online indexes, artists biographies, art and architecture encyclopedias and dictionaries, as well as provenance resources and iconography guides, to aid scholars in their research.
Circulating Collections
Circulating Collections
The circulating art book collection occupies the lower two floors of the Sherman Art Library. It includes print and e-books, exhibition catalogues and journals covering all aspects of art history, with particular attention to items that support the curriculum.
Students browse through extensive collections from around the world at Sherman Art Library
