LibGuides: Art and Art History: Find Images

Find Images

For research, images need context and information about their creation to reuse them ethically. Where you locate images can help you with both. This guide lists a few places where you can start your search!

Image Collection for Research

Art Project- Google Cultural Institute
Images from nearly 800 museums and cultural organizations

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online: Premium is Alexander Street's most comprehensive video subscription. Launched in 2013, this expansive resource comprises the full content of dozens of video collections and bonus discipline clusters, and grows by 7,000 titles each year.

Digital Public Library of America
With over 13 million images, DPLA brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Google Arts and Culture
Explore collections from around the world with Google Arts & Culture, created by Google Cultural Institute.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Over 15 millioin photographs, historical prints, posters, cartoons, documentary drawings, fine prints, and architectural and engineering designs.
Smithsonian: Amercan Women Artists
This is a small sampling of women artists and their works in the vast visual arts collections of the Smithsonian.