MLA Guide: Artworks

Works Cited

Cassatt, Mary. Sara Handing a Toy to the Baby. Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT.

Eakins, Thomas. The Gross Clinic. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

     History of Art (2nd Ed.). By H.W. Janson. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,

     1978. 778.

Rosen, George. Family. First floor lobby, Capital Community College. Hartford.

If the artwork is owned in a private collection, name, instead, the individual owner and the city where the artwork resides. If you wish to indicate the year a work of art was created, add the date after the title.

LaVorgna, Paul. Beach at Nantucket. 1982. Charles and Marylynn Darling Collection,

      Tolland, CT.

Photographs in a collection or museum would be cited the same as the paintings listed above. A personal photograph can be cited by describing the photograph, giving the name of the photographer, and listing the date the photo was taken.

Hummingbird in flight. Tolland, CT. Personal photograph by author. 28 May 2000.

In-Text Citation

The sculpture entitled Family, given to the college in 1991 and permanently exhibited in the college's Woodland Street lobby, was carved from an enormous cherry tree that grew in the sculptor's back yard (Rosen).