Primary sources in art may take many forms, including:

• artwork
• autobiographies
• film of the artist
• interviews, diaries, speeches, letters
• artifacts of the artist
• photographs of artwork or artists

When searching Primo, try formatting your terms in this way to find primary sources:

• Artists Interviews, ex. Interviews with artists 1966-2012
• Sources, ex. The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 : sources and documents
• Artists Correspondence, ex. The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh
• Archives, Abby Williams Hill Papers, 1880-1939
• Catalogs, ex. Amalia Amaki : boxes, buttons and the blues
• Catalogues raisonnés, ex. Jacob Lawrence : the complete prints, 1963-2000 : a catalogue raisonné
• Diaries, ex. The diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
• Exhibitions, ex. Contemporary Latin American artists : exhibitions at the Organization of American States 1941-1964
• Notebooks, sketchbooks,etc., ex. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Artstor is a large collection of digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. 

Artstor is now available in its new home on JSTOR! When you search JSTOR, you will find Artstor’s 2+ million licensed images and more than 1,700 additional primary source collections alongside JSTOR’s vast collection of books, journal articles, and research reports. 

Visit the Artstor on JSTOR LibGuide, or jump right in with an image search.