Research Guides: Art Discourse & Research: About Art &amp; Artists

Images

Artstor on JSTOR | JSTOR Images This link opens in a new window
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New Artstor platform. Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.

Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Covers fine, decorative, and commercial art as well as architecture and architectural design. Includes 600+ full-text journals, 220+ full-text books, and 63,0000+ images. For art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general researchers.
Art Bibliographies Modern (1974-present) This link opens in a new window
Covers all art forms, including fine art, digital art, crafts, design and photography. Features full abstracts and indexing from art journals published from the 1970s onwards.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art.
Art and Architecture in Video This link opens in a new window
Includes documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. It addresses art history and theory as well as applied topics such as graphic design.

Art Institute of Chicago: The Collection
Filter to "Public Domain" to discover works you can freely use.
Google Arts & Culture
Includes online collections from partner institutions.
The Getty, Los Angeles
Filter by "Open Content Images."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Filter by "Open Access Artworks."
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Use the search "Everything" dropdown menu to search specifically for photos or other types of media. Many, but not all, images have no known copyright restrictions. Enlarge images of interest. Under "About this Image" see "Rights Advisory" for more information.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
NGA Images is a collection of open access digital images.
The Louvre
More than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.
British Museum Collection Online
The majority of the 1.9 million object images are available for anyone to use for free under a Creative Commons 4.0 license.
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Users can create their own online galleries.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Select the "With downloadable images" checkbox before searching. Each image specifies its license.