Harvard has collected books on art from the earliest days of its libraries, forming one of the world’s largest university art libraries.
The Fine Arts Library’s collective strengths include Western, Islamicate, East Asian, and Indian art across a variety of formats including monographs, exhibition catalogs, serials, reference, facsimiles and scrolls, artists’ books, magazines, photobooks, microfilm, antiquarian and rare books, auction catalogs, prints and print portfolios, photographs, and rubbings.
The library’s general, non-circulating, and special collections support the research and teaching of faculty, students, staff, curators, and outside researchers from around the globe.