Librarian
Research/IT Desk
Contact:
Contact the Reference Librarians online
reference@carleton.edu
reference@carleton.edu
507-222-4264
Art Image Collections: Licensed and Local
Below are some of the image repositories you have access to because of your affiliation with Carleton.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window
This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
ARTstor's repository of hundreds of thousands of images, including art, architecture, design, is now part of JSTOR and will cease being its own database on August 1, 2024. - Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
Covering all aspects of the visual arts, this collection includes such key reference works as the Grove Dictionary of Art, The Benezit Dictionary of Artists, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. - Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(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 CollectionsLocally 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 LouvreMore than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.
- The Guggenheim MuseumThe 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 CommonsImages 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
This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
Search through millions of digitized prints and photographs from United States history. Thousands of these images, free of copyright restrictions, are also available on Flickr.
- National Gallery of ArtMore than 20,000 open access digital images of objects in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
- SFMOMA: Explore the CollectionExplore thousands of artworks from the SFMOMA collections with this interactive browser.
- Walker Art Center CollectionsSearch and browse images from the holdings of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center.
- Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA)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
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citation information)
A rich collection of 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 & CultureA 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.
- PHAROSPHAROS is an image database focused on Italian art, created by an international consortium of fourteen European and North American art historical photo archives. It provides comprehensive consolidated access to photo archive images and their associated scholarly documentation.
- 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.
- accessCeramicsA 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.
