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Art History 102 Library Research Assignment: Find & Cite Images

A guided 90-minute class assignment where students work individually to map, develop, and research their Art History 102 paper topics.

Image Citing

No matter the citation style, citing images is an essential facet of academic writing. Gather the identifying image information and arrange it following the citation style's image caption guidelines.

MLA Style

Art Bulletin Style

Fig. 1. Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child,
Wichita Art Museum.Illus. in
Novelene Ross, Toward an American Identity:
Selections from the Wichita Art Museum
Collection of American Art
(Wichita, Kansas: Wichita Art Museum,
1997) 107.

1 Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child, ca 1890,
Oil on canvas, 35 ½ x 25 3/8” (90.1 x 64.5 cm).
Wichita Art Museum, Whichita, Kansas,
Roland P. Murdock Collection,
M109.53 (© Wichita Art Museum 2002)

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