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In-text citation

Weeping Woman (Picasso 1937) is an example of...

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Reference list

Artist Last Name, First Name. Date of the work.  Title of the Work, medium, dimensions (if available), Location of the work (eg Gallery Name and City/State).

Picasso, Pablo 1937. Weeping Woman, oil on canvas, 55.2 x 46.2 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Notes
  • According to CMOS 14.235 information about artworks (all forms) can just be placed in-text, but if required in the Reference list include the following:
  • Artist, a Title (in italics), a date of creation/completion, followed by information about the medium and location of the work.
  • For artworks consulted online add URL.
  • See CMOS 14.235.

In text referencing

 We saw the exhibition Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs when we went to the Melbourne Museum earlier this year.

Reference list
  • There is no mention of how the exhibition should be formatted in a reference list.
Notes
  • CMOS 8.201 indicates that the names of large world fairs and exhibitions are capitalised but NOT italics.
  • Titles of smaller exhibitions like at a museum are capitalised and in italics.
In-text citation

In the exhibition catalogue Esquerra et al. (2022, 10) combine...

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Reference list

Author/Editor Last Name, First Name(s) (or Organisation as Author). Year.  Title of the Catalogue, Place of Publication: Publisher. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, organised by and presented at the Name of Place where held and date range of the exhibition.

Esguerra, Clarissa M., Michaela Hansen with Katie Somerville and Danielle Whitfield. Eds. 2022.  Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, organised by and presented at the National Gallery of Victoria December 11, 2022 - April 14, 2023.

OR, if space is tight,

Author/Editor Last Name, First Name(s) (or Organisation as Author). Year.  Title of the Catalogue, Place of Publication: Publisher. Exhibition  catalogue.

Esguerra, Clarissa M., Michaela Hansen with Katie Somerville and Danielle Whitfield. Eds. 2022.  Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria. Exhibition catalogue.
Notes
  • CMOS 14.236 indicates that exhibition catalogues and brochures that are often available about an exhibition are formatted as if they are books.

In-text citation

The Girandola (Desprez and Piranesi c. 1784) depicts...

Reference list

Artist, Initial/s date of the work, Title of the work, Description, Location. Name of the Database, URL

Desprez, Louis-Jean, designer, and Francesco Piranesi, etcher  c.1784. The Girandola, Fireworks at the Castel Sant'Angelo on Easter Monday, 1784, During the Visit to Rome of King Charles Gustave III of Sweden,  Etching with hand-coloring,  27 3/4 x 19 1/8 in. (70.5 x 48.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artstor. https://library-artstor-org.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/asset/MMA_IAP_10310749479.
Notes
  • CMOS provides no suggestions.
In-text citation

Caravaggio's Entombment 1602-1603, was much admired at the time...(Lambert 2000, 74).

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Author Last Name, First Name(s). Publication year. Title of the Book.  Place: Publisher.

Lambert, Gilles ed. 2000. Caravaggio 1571-1610. Koln: Taschen.
Notes
  • CMOS provides no suggestions.
  • This is how to reference an artwork you have talked about in the text.
  • If you insert it as an image then see Images , Figures and Tables for how to reference - you will need to acknowledge under the image as well as in the reference list.

In-text citation

The record cover When Sunny Expands (Ackermann 1997) has been described by some as...

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Reference list

Artist Last Name, First Name(s). Date of the work.  Title of the Work, description, Name of the Organisation or Website, City/State, URL.

Ackermann, Rita. 1997. When Sunny Expands,12-inch vinyl record with painted cover and popouts,12 1/2 × 12 1/2" (31.8 × 31.8 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York, https://www.moma.org/collection/works/173208?artist_id=38676&page=1&sov_referrer=artist.
Notes
  • CMOS provides limited suggestions.