LibGuides: Art and Art History: Images

Finding and Using Images

Finding and Using Images This link opens in a new window
Links to online image databases and websites; suggestions on searching for images in print publications; tools for presenting images; information on citing images; and guides to copyright information.

This link will take you to the Finding and Using Images resource page. It provides additional subject links to online image databases and websites; suggestions on searching for images in print publications; information on citing images; and guides to copyright information.

Art, Architecture and Photography

The following are just a few of the major image sources for art, architecture and photography. For additional art-related sources, please link to the "Finding and Using Images" guide.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Over a million images and associated catalog data for images of ancient history to modern times. The ARTstor Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts.

Art History Resources on the Web
An extensive list of Internet resources linking to both imagery and scholarship, covering art history from the prehistoric to the 20th century. There are also links to research resources, art departments, museums and galleries.
Smithsonian Archives of American Art Image Collections
More than 6,000 photographs of artists and art-world figures, letters, sketches and sketchbooks, diaries, printed materials, ephemera, and other documents from the Archives' collections. Select "Digitized Items"
VADS (Visual Arts Data Service): the online resource for the visual arts.
Based at the Farnham Campus of The University College for the Creative Arts (UK). Over 100,000 images of paintings, drawings, sculpture, design, fashion, textiles, crafts from dozens of collections.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

ARTstor

ARTstor Collections

For descriptions of the numerous collections within ARTstor, follow this link.