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Assignment | Art Mini-Research Sequence (Armstrong): MLA Style Citations

ARTS 1301, 1303, & 1304 Art History & Art Appreciation | Prof. Janna Armstrong (Spring 2025)

Remember!

Pro-Tip!If you include information in your paper that is not original to you -- whether it's directly quoted or paraphrased -- you must include an in-text citation that corresponds to an entry on your Works Cited page!

Example Citations

Bijl, Martin, and Wouter Kloek. “A Painting Re-Attributed to Aelbert Cuyp: Connoisseurship and Technical Research.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 156, no. 1331, 2014, pp. 91–98. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24241188.

Kindall, Elizabeth. "Visual Experience in Late Ming Suzhou 'Honorific' and 'Famous Sites' Paintings." Ars Orientalis, vol. 36, 2009, pp. 137–177. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40646247.

Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth. “Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law.” Art Journal, vol. 79, no. 4, Winter 2020, pp. 92–113. Academic Search Complete, https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2020.1779547.

With an Author:

Walters, Patrick. "Andrew Wyeth: 1917-2009: Celebrated Artist Made Iconic Images." Chicago Tribune, Jan 18, 2009, p. 6. ProQuest, https://login.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/andrew-wyeth-1917-2009/docview/420778151/se-2. 

No Author:

“Andrew Wyeth.” Art in America, vol. 101, no. 7, Aug. 2013, p. 54. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=93d2e3c5-b97e-37d9-97c4-fde6bacac44e.

Souter, Gerry. American Realism, Parkstone International, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/lib/lonestar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=915234.

Stoner, Joyce, Hill. “Wyeth, Andrew.” Encyclopedia of American Studies, edited by Sharon P. Holland, 1st ed., Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Credo Reference, https://search.credoreference.com/articles/Qm9va0FydGljbGU6Njc3NDU=?aid=99152.

Art Reproduced on a Website:

Hopper, Edward. House by the Railroad. 1925. MoMA, www.moma.org/collection/works/78330.

Wyeth, Andrew. Self-Portrait. 1945, National Academy Museum & School, New York. Google Arts & Culture, www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/self-portrait/bQGXPeyDH80c0Q.

Artist's Own Site:*

*rare situation, honestly, especially since you can't use artists from after 1970. Don't mistake a third-party site as "official."

Sherald, Amy. Planes, rockets, and the spaces in between. 2018, www.amysherald.com/2018/6/4/planes-rockets-and-the-spaces-in-between.