ART 131 - West - Art and Culture: Late Gothic through Modern Periods: Images & Multimedia

 Art Institute of Chicago

• High quality images of artworks in the Art Institute's collections​.
• For use under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.

 Cleveland Museum of Art

• Digital images from the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
• Searchable by artist, date, culture, and object type.
• Much of the collection is available for commercial and non-commercial use via Open Access with Creative Commons. Searches can be filtered to show only these Open Access Images.

 Cooper Hewitt Museum

• Digital images from the Cooper Hewitt Museum collection.
• Especially strong in textiles, decorative arts and product design.
• Collection images free to use under the Creative Commons Zero License.

Getty Museum - Open Content

• Digital images from the collections of the Getty Museum.
• Browsable by medium, topic, geography and name and can be limited to Open Content images.
• Open Content images can be used for any purpose without first seeking permission from the Getty, but the following attribution must be used: Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.

Guggenheim Museum - Exhibition Catalogs

• Digital images of exhibition catalogs.
• Copyright belongs to the Guggenheim, but may be used under Fair Use.

https://archive.org/details/guggenheimmuseum

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division and Library of Congress Photos

• Images organized by collection.
• Copyright varies. See individual items for details on obtaining permissions.

World Digital Library (joint project from the Library of Congress and UNESCO)

• Primary sources including documents, images and audiovisual materials.
• Check copyright with the institution owning the object.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Online

• 400,000 high-resolution digital images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
• Browsable via artist, maker, culture, object type, material, geographic location, era, and department.
• Downloadable.
• For non-commercial use—including in scholarly publications in any media—without permission from the Museum and without a fee.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

• Provided the source is cited, personal and educational use (as defined by fair use in Copyright Law) is permitted.

Museum of Modern Art

• MOMA notes taht images may be used under Fair use without consulting the Museum.

National Gallery of Art

• Images that the NGA believes are in the public domain.
• Users may download free of charge without seeking authorization from the Gallery.

New York Public Library Digital Collections

• Copyright on NYPL digital images varies.  See individual item for more details.
• For permissions and information on use contact: permissions@nypl.org.

Smithsonian Collections Online

• Images may be used freely for non-commercial purposes.

Smithsonian Open Access

• Images, information and other materials which can be used freely in educational settings.

Walters Art Museum 

• Images from the American art collections of the Walters Museum.
• Images can be freely used for educational purposes.

Digital Public Library of America

• Images organized by topic.
• Copyright varies. See individual items for details on obtaining permissions.

Europeana Digital Image Collection

• 14.6 million digital resources from Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
• Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects.
• Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers.
• Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts.
• Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts.

British Museum Images

• Images organized by topic.
• For full collection see: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
• Copyright varies. See individual items for details on obtaining permissions.

Louvre Museum

• Non-commercial re-use is authorized, provided the source and author are acknowledged.

Musees Paris

• Search is filtered to Royalty Free Images

Rijksmuseum

• Images freely available to use from this major museum in the Netherlands.
• Arranged by period and artist, but also searchable.
• Especially good for images of paintings from the Northern Renaissance.

VADS: the Online Resource for Digital Art and Design Images

• Links to digitized art and design collections and archives in the United Kingdom.

Art UK

• Links to digitized art museum collections in the United Kingdom.

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). Bride of the Wind (Windsbraut). 1914. Artstor.