Pilgrim Library: Art & Graphic Design Research Guide: Images

Digital Image Collections

Akron Art Museum
View images from the Akron Art Museum includes works by Stieglitz, Rauschenberg, Warhol, and Weegee.

American Memory
Contains still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Art Images for College Teaching
Art and architecture images arranged by time period to parallel art history textbook organization.
ArtFinder
Browse thousands of paintings from artists, galleries, museums and collections around the world.
Google Arts and Culture Project
A high-resolution images of famous works of art as well as more than a thousand other images, by more than 400 artists—all in one place.
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Virtual tour inside 17 of the world’s most acclaimed art museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain & The National Gallery in London, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence an
NYPL Digital Gallery
Contains 520,000 images from primary sources and printed rarities from the collections of The New York Public Library.
VADS. The online resource for visual arts
Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images from institutional sources contributed for use in learning, teaching and research. Includes art, design, architecture, decorative art, fashion. UK-based.

Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
"A discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions."--Wikipedia. It has over 42 million (and counting) digitized images, audio and video files, and documents available for viewing to researchers in history and social and cultural studies.

Web Gallery of Art
A database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 13,900 reproductions