LibGuides: Photography: Images

Finding Images of Art

You can find images in the ARTstor and Grove Art Online databases. Try searching for the following options:

Image

Photograph

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Artstor is an image database featuring an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository.

Artstor has merged with JSTOR, and the Artstor website will retire on August 1, 2024. If you have Artstor Image Groups, they have been moved to JSTOR Workspace. For more information, please refer to the Artstor to JSTOR migration guide.

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Databases and Websites for finding images

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Artstor is an image database featuring an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository.

Artstor has merged with JSTOR, and the Artstor website will retire on August 1, 2024. If you have Artstor Image Groups, they have been moved to JSTOR Workspace. For more information, please refer to the Artstor to JSTOR migration guide.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new window
With contributions from Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors and other notable experts, Britannica Academic provides trusted information with balanced, global perspectives and insights that users will not find anywhere else. Also includes the World Atlas, World Factbook, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art creates, organizes, and disseminates a broad range of digital images and data that document the rich history of the Museum, its collection, exhibitions, events, people, and activities.

On February 7, 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art implemented a new policy known as Open Access, which makes images of artworks it believes to be in the public domain widely and freely available for unrestricted use, and at no cost, in accordance with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation and the Terms and Conditions of this website.
The Clark Art Institute (USA)
The Clark provides open access to all available digital images believed to be in the public domain. These images may be used for any purpose. There are no permissions required and no download fees.

Photography