Images: Art & Design

Guide to high-quality image databases and resources. Interdisciplinary image content, search strategies, evaluating images, & image citation guide.

General Art & Design

SoniaDelaunay

Sonia Delaunay,
Dancer, Second
Version, 1916.
Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo,
New York. Image
source: CAMIO

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Image library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. Broad coverage of visual culture from many time periods and areas of the world, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, and more.

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Web Gallery of Art
A database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 13,900 reproductions
VADS. The online resource for visual arts
Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images from institutional sources contributed for use in learning, teaching and research. Includes art, design, architecture, decorative art, fashion. UK-based.

Art Museum Collections

Google Art Project
High-resolution images of selected works from 16 museums around the world, including Gemaldegalerie, Berlin; National Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Versailles; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Uffizi, Florence; Museum Kampa, Prague; and more... Gallery and street views, Explore the Museum feature, videos
Freer/Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
Images of objects from the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries.
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Contains images of many of the artworks held and displayed by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
This online collection contains selected classic works and more recent acquisitions from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Provides access to images held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including highlights from each of the curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of American Painting and Sculpture.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The online collection of the Museum of Modern Art includes artists and objects from the departments of Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Prints and Illustrated Books, and Film and Media.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Contains text and/or data on all of the objects in the National Gallery's collection, and images of more than 5600 objects.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
American art, craft, and design from all regions, traditions, and cultures. Searchable and browsable by artist, work type, and subject.
Tate Collection
Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art.

Art & Design Special Topics

accessCeramics
Juried collection of contemporary ceramics. Curated by faculty and staff at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR.
Creating French Culture : Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Chronological highlights of French political and cultural history in art from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris
Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library
Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in the British Library, London.
Domestic Interiors Database
Representations of domestic interiors from the Renaissance to the 20th century, showing room layout, furnishings, architecture, and domestic design.