Art/Art History: Images & Media

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library.

Collection of contemporary ceramic art. This collection was created to "fill a void in contemporary ceramics digital image collections on the web".

This image collection is from the the British Museum which was founded in 1753 and opened its doors in 1759. It was the first national museum to cover all fields of human knowledge, open to visitors from across the world.
The Museum is driven by an insatiable curiosity for the world, a deep belief in objects as reliable witnesses and documents of human history, sound research, as well as the desire to expand and share knowledge.

An online resource for the visual arts. 44 Image collections. Fine art, design, posters, ceramics, illustration, etc.

DPLA works with institutions across America to make millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.

the Brooklyn Museum has amassed one of the largest and most diverse collections in the United States. Its vast holdings range from the ancient to the contemporary and encompass virtually all the world's principal cultures, reflecting the institution's long history of acquiring Western and non-Western art. This image collection represents some of the vast museum collection.

The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.

This exhibit showcases the porcelain collection of Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche, which they assembled for a period of over twenty years, from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Their collection included numerous eighteenth-century porcelain masterpieces created by the Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain Manufactories. Several of these pieces are now in the Seattle Art Museum collection, while others are in museums and collections around the world.

Our online collections are a working database with a team of experts continuously adding new objects.

Resources within the collections are free and publicly accessible online. They are loosely organized into collections that span a range of subjects, including art, ecology, literature, history, music, natural resources, science, social sciences.

Created by the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this freely-searchable online archive documents the lives, work, and products of Texas artisans and artists through 1900.

The Designed by Women project encourages a deeper understanding of women's contributions to design.
Works from 1900 to the present, designed by women from across the globe, are drawn from the Stewart Collection.

The Kress Collection Digital Archive encompasses works of European art, particularly Italian Renaissance paintings. The Kress Collection Digital Archive is a project of the National Gallery of Art Gallery Archives that was generously funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Compilation of images, mostly by well-known artists and some listed as well under school or nationality. Use the A-Z list in the left panel to pick an artist or topic and then "view images" to see the selection of works. Large images are available as well as thumbnails and sometimes some descriptive text and/or links to related text.

This collection includes over 650 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese illustrated books held in The Met's Department of Asian Art.

A repository of freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and other media.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, roughly hour-long interview program featuring artists, historians, authors, curators, and conservators.

This guide provides a wealth of information about ways to locate images using the resources available at Alfred and the internet and how to properly cite images.

A large archive of audio and video from the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

In 2009, film historian David Pierce sought to improve this research landscape by founding the Media History Digital Library. Mr. Pierce knew the breadth of publications that existed, and he knew the institutions and private collectors who possessed original copies (not simply the microfilm). He found generous individuals willing to fund the digitization of important magazine, and borrowed from the collections of the Museum of Modern Art Library, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library, and private collectors.