Hours: Wednesday-Friday 10am-3pm, Saturday 10am-1:30pm (subject to change without notice)
Information: (808) 532-8754
The Robert Allerton Art Library, a non-circulating research facility, is an invaluable resource for members of the Honolulu Museum of Art, art collectors, art students, and anyone else with an interest in art. There is no museum admission charge to those who visit the library.
With a collection of some 45,000 books and periodicals, extensive biographical files on artists of Hawai’i and elsewhere, and auction catalogues dating to the beginning of the 20th century, the library is the state’s premier source of art information.
The reading room includes a database of Japanese ukiyo-e print images. More than 2,000 digitized images of prints in the Museum’s collection, many of them gifts from the late author James A. Michener, are available for viewing on a computer. Available for browsing are the latest art magazines and periodicals.
Some areas of the library's special collections (including the Richard Lane, Hiroko Ikeda, and Azabu Collections) are now searchable through the online catalog. These materials have restricted access, and permission is required for their use. For further information, please email library@honolulumuseum.org. The online library catalog has been made available with generous support from the Robert F. Lange Foundation.
New Arrivals
• Adelaide Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution, Laura Auricchio
• The Jaguar's Spots: Ancient Mesoamerican Art from the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
• A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection, Nicholas R. Bell
• Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s, Alastair Duncan
• Falcon of the Inner Eye: A Centennial Celebration, Morris Graves
• Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, Michael Fried
• Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan, Christine M.E. Guth
• Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes, Edouard Kopp
• The Art of Poverty: Irony and Ideal in Sixteenth-Century Beggar Imagery, Tom Nichols
• Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980, Jean Robertson
