Online Image Collections
Museums
Museums with image collections or highlights online, browse by subject and region.
See Also: Art Resources
Fine Art Prints and Posters
View over 500,000 works of art including images from the masters in art history to popular movie and sports images, vintage advertising and more.
In association with AllPosters.com
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
A searchable database of around 1.2 million images provided to the public by the Library of Congress.
AICT: Art Images for College Teaching
Collection of art images licensed for non-commercial educational use to academic institutions and libraries.
Art & Architecture
Over 40,000 images from the Courtauld Institute of art, search or browse sets of images created by other users.
The NYPL Picture Collection Online
Over 30,000 images from books, newspapers, and magazines plus prints, photographs and postcards covering over 12,000 subjects.
NYPL: Image Collections
Prints, photographs, drawings and other visual materials arranged by subject.
Art Renewal Center
Combines on-line international art news, reviews, articles, contemporary salon and a 1500 megabyte research library of master paintings.
Web Gallery of Art
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Web Museum, Paris
Image archive of famous paintings also includes historical comments and artist biographies.
Brigham Young University Digital Collections
Includes close to 9000 selected images from the BYU Museum of Art collection, plus historical photographs, art history images, and more.
Wriston Art Center Galleries Digital Collection
Online collection of early modern American and European art including German Expressionism, Oceanic artifacts, Japanese prints, and ancient Byzantine coins.
The ImageBase
A searchable database with over 110,000 objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Iowa Gallery
Over 15,000 digitized artworks from the University of Iowa including an extensive collection of African art.
VADS: Collections
A searchable database of over 100,000 visual art images, free for educational use in the UK.
CGFA: Virtual Art Museum
Collection of images by master painters, browse by artist name, nationality or year.
The National Gallery: Picture Library, London
Allows access to images in the National Gallery’s collection, and grants rights and clearances for image use.
Treasury of Fine Art
Provides access to fine art images from The Ohio State University, and licenses image use, includes photography, prints, memorabilia, illuminated manuscripts, and more.
Art Resource
Fine art stock photo archive, images must be licensed in order to remove small watermarks but is useful for research and encourages research requests.
Insight: Visual Collections
More than 300,000 images from over 50 collections including fine art, photographs, maps and more.
Digital Archive of Art
Online images of 18th - 20th century paintings and sculpture, as well as American and European architecture provided by Boston College.
WorldImages
A database of more than 70,000 images that are free for non-profit educational use. Search or browse by subject.
Bridgeman Art Library
Resource for fine art images for reproduction.
NOAA Photo Library
A searchable library of public domain photos including Hurricane Katrina images, photographs of coral reefs, polar regions, coastal regions, lighthouses, and more.
Time & Life Pictures
View content from photojournalists documenting political and cultural events plus celebrities and the American experience.
UW Libraries Digital Collections
Image collections from the University of Washington Libraries, focuses on rare and unique materials that represent Pacific Northwest and Seattle history.
SILS: Art Image Browser
A database of art and architectural images from the Kelsey Museum of Archeology, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Chicano Murals collection, and the Slide and Photograph Collection from the Department of the History of Art.
Picture Australia
A huge database of Australian works of art, photographs, and maps. Search image collections from major cultural agencies including the National Library of New Zealand, the Nolan Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia, and more. Also provides access to public domain images and allows users to upload their own images.
IMAGE
Interactive Multimedia Art Gallery Explorer: a guide to selected highlights from the collections of the San Diego Museum of Art.
Chester Beatty Library: Image Gallery
Collection of East Asian, Islamic, and Western images.
The International Poster Collection
A searchable database of poster art created from 1991 - 2000 by artists from over 40 countries who were a part of the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE), also includes a database of the artists with biographical information.
SIRIS: Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
The Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, over 1000 photographs of works of art created in the early twentieth century, many of the works have since been damaged or no longer exist except online.
Photo Agency of the Reunion des Musees Nationaux
An online collection of over 440,000 images of works of art from the national and regional museums of France.
Harvard University Library Collections
A selection of online collections from Harvard University.
Collage
City of London Library & Art Gallery Electronic, a database of Guildhall's visual collections.
VMC: Image Gallery
View paintings, photos, and objects online from Canadian museums.
