Visual artwork

warning message APA 7 does not have a formal template for referencing visual artworks included in the body of your text. Please check with your lecturer for advice before including in your assignment.

In-text citations

Figure 3 depicts ….. (Rackham, 1904).

The artwork by Rackham (1904)….

Notes on style

  • If there is no author or artist recorded for the image, use the title in the position the author would normally be in. Please note, in APA the word “figure” is used to refer to all images, graphs, charts, and visual material.
    • within the written body of your paper, as you would for a normal in-text reference, and
    • below the figure.
  • When citing figures in the text of your work, you need to acknowledge them in two places:
    • Within the written body of your paper, cite the figure as you would for a normal in-text reference.
    • Refer to the figure by its assigned number. Do not refer to the figure as “the Figure above/below”, or “the Figure on page 17”.
  • Reference the figure in your list according to the source you found it. So if you retrieved it from a journal article, just reference the actual article as normal.
    • Use the artist’s name as the author

Above figure

Template

Figure number

Figure x.

Figure title

Title.

Below figure

Template

Note. Author. (Year). Title of work. [Medium]. Gallery, City, Country OR URL.

Example

Figure 3.

The Thundershower (study for painting)

abstract art

Note. H. Lyman Sayen. (1916). The Thundershower (study for painting). [Painting]. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA.

Reference list

Template

Artist. (Year). Title of artwork [Medium]. Gallery, City, Country OR URL.

Original artwork as seen in person

Brack, J. (1955). The fish shop [Oil on composition board]. Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia. https://www.si.edu/object/thundershower-study-painting:saam_1968.19.6

Notes on style

  • Give the name of the artist, the year the artwork was created, the title of artwork (italics), medium (square brackets, no italics), and the location and name of the museum or gallery you saw the artwork at.

Online reproduction

Brack, J. (1955). The fish shop [Oil on composition board]. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. http://www.ngv/collections/johnbrack

Notes on style

  • Give the artist, year, title, medium, and URL.

Print reproduction

Bryant, H. (Ed.). (1993). Australian artists. Larwitt.

Notes on style

  • Use this template to reference artwork in a museum or on a museum website.
  • If the work is a reproduction, give a reference entry for the print source (e.g., book) containing reproduction, not the artwork itself. Name the artist and artwork in the text and add the page or plate number to the in-text citation for the print source; e.g., ‘(Bryant, 1993, p. 46)’.