Ray W. Howard Library: Visual Arts: Find Images

Images from our Databases

Academic Search Complete
A scholarly, full-text database. To find images, use the advanced search page and check the "Image Quick View Types" that you want to find. Available off campus with student ID.
eLibrary
A gateway to a wide variety of sources including TV and radio transcripts, magazine articles, reference books, newspapers, maps, pictures, audio and video clips.

ProQuest US Newsstream
Includes Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Washington Post

Art Images

Pastoral, Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1923-24. Photo: © Tate, London 2012’

AMICA Library
The AMICA Library contains over 108,000 works of art from the collections of contributing museums worldwide. Cultures and time periods range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.
Art Images for College Teaching
AICT is intended to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large.
Art Images Library's Photostream [from Flickr]
20,000 plus fine art and photography images from known and mid-emerging artists with complete captions.
Art in Context Image Collection
Browse art images by media, nationality of the artist, or subject term. Covers 20th and 21st century artists.
Art Knowledge News Image Library [from Google]
20,000 plus fine art and photography images from known and mid-emerging artists with complete captions.
Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
This collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century.
Galaxy of Images
Contains a portion of the more than 1.5 million printed books and manuscripts in the collections of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
GLOPAD
GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.
Google Art Project
Explore selected galleries virtually, through a kind of “interior” street view; offers extremely high resolution images of artworks contained within those galleries/museums;form virtual collections of artworks that can be shared and annotated.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Collection Search
The collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art, from ancient Egyptian to contemporary.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The The National Gallery of Art of the United States of America. More than 45,000 open access digital images up to 4000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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.
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the history of America through individuals who have shaped its culture.
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
Digitized materials such as photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media selected from UW Special Collections' holdings.
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) Online Image Collections
Portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching and research.
Web Gallery of Art
Searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries; dual mode allows you to view images side-by-side to compare and contrast.

Image Indexes

WIkipedia Public Domain Image Resources
ALA comprehensive Guide to images online
Artcyclopedia
Comprehensive index to over 7,000 artists and links to approximately 80,000 works, primarily painting and sculpture.
Art History Resources
Collection of links specific to sites related to the practice of art history, many are written, not visual, information.
Public Domain Sherpa
This page lists resources for high-quality public domain photographs

Visual Arts: Find Images

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Finding Images

There are thousands of high quality art images available online to inspire your own artwork, or help you research a paper. On this page you will find links to some of the best sources.

Images from our Databases

Art Images

Image Indexes