Librarian
Art Image Collections: Licensed and Local
Below are some of the image repositories you have access to because of your affiliation with Carleton.
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A digital repository of hundreds of thousands of images. Documentation is included. Learn to use ARTstor better with tutorials on YouTube. - Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
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A digital collection of thousands of images, each linked to appropriate entries in the Grove Dictionary of Art or The Oxford Companion to Western Art. - Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
Includes images from hundreds of sources and thousands of artists, from prehistory to the present, from the Bridgeman Art Library.
- Carleton Digital Collections
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Locally created digital collections of thousands of images. Includes images from Carleton's Art Department (student work and the Visual Resources Collection) and Carleton's Archives and Special Collections.
Art Image Collections: Free Web: Individual Institutions
More and more image collections are freely available online. Below is a small collection of the best repositories online, but there are many more out there.
- The Louvre
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More than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. - The Guggenheim Museum
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The Guggenheim collection online represents 169 artists and encompasses both the classic and the new--from the Guggenheim's earliest work, an 1867 landscape by Camille Pissarro, through more recent acquisitions, such as a 1998-99 sculpture by Robert Gober. Each work may be viewed at small, medium, or large resolution, and is accompanied by commentary. - Yale Digital Commons
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Images from the Yale Peabody Museum, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University Library Map Collection, and Office of Digital Dissemination.
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
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Nearly 1 million images from the Library's collections of prints and photographs including images from the the National Child Labor Committee Collection, the U.S. News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, the Library of Congress Baseball Card Collection, and the Collection of Architecture, Design and Engineering Drawings.
- National Gallery of Art
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More than 20,000 open access digital images of objects in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. - SFMOMA: Explore the Collection
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Explore thousands of artworks from the SFMOMA collections with this interactive browser. - Walker Art Center Collections
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Search and browse images from the holdings of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center. - Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA)
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Search images from the more than 89,000 artworks in the collection of Minneapolis' Institute of Art.
- New York Public Library Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
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Over 450,000 images from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Art Image Collections: Free Web: General
More and more image collections are freely available online. Below is a small collection of the best repositories online, but there are many more out there.
- ArtsyA growing database of 200,000 images of art, architecture, and design by 25,000 artists. Spans historical, modern, and contemporary works, and includes the largest free online database of contemporary art.
- ArtcyclopediaAn index of online museums and image archives. Includes links to where the works of over 8000 different fine artists can be viewed online.
- Google Arts & Culture
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A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. - Asia Art ArchiveA continuously growing digital archive of primary source material culled by individual art practitioners and researchers in cities across Asia. Includes digital images, correspondences, artists’ personal documents, and streaming audio and video of performance art, artist talks, lectures, and other art events, with material being added as it becomes available.
- accessCeramics
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A growing collection of 1,000+ images of contemporary ceramics by working professional ceramic artists. It is designed for use by artists, arts educators, scholars, collectors and the general public, and is intended to fill a void in contemporary ceramics digital image collections on the web.
