Blough-Weis Library: Art & Art History Research Guide: Digital Images

Digital Image Collections

ARTstor
Oxford Art Online
Accessible by only one user at a time. Art reference works and images.

Access to art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online.

Google Art Project
30 000 works of art from sculpture to architecture and drawings and explore over 150 collections from 40 countries.

Art Images for College Teaching
Over 3000 royalty-free images for use by the educational community; created by Allan T. Kohl

VADS: free art and design images for education
"Over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK."
NGA Images: National Gallery of Art
"Repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images."
Web Gallery of Art
"Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries."
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world, including prints and photographs.
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation: World Art Treasures
Online collection of slides.

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The World Art Treasures Project containing 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation; focusing on the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, India, Myanmar/Burma, Cambodia and Japan.
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Library of Congresses collection of photos, many available digitally.

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"The collections of the Prints and Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people."
WorldImages
"It contains approximately 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery."

Advertising Collections from Duke
Start here to access collections ranging from historical commercials, to early American advertising (1850-1920), to historic billboard ads and more. From the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University

Ad* Archives
U.S. & Canadian ad archive.

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1911-1955
Ad* Access presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

NYPL Digital Gallery
"Provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections."

UW Libraries Digital Collections
"Materials such as photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media from the University of Washington Libraries."
The Drawing Center Viewing Program
"Offers emerging artists the opportunity to include their work in a curated Artist Registry."
accessCeramics: a contemporary ceramics image resource
CLAROS
Classical art research online.
Europeana
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.