LibGuides: Art / Art History: Art Image Sources

Art Image Database

ArtStor (Log in with your College Canvas credential)
Digital library of art images with descriptive information.

Click on the link above to open a new database window
Click: "Enter Here"
To search for more than one "concept", click on Advanced Search below the Search box.
In each search box, type the search word(s) for a separate concept.
- Type an OR between synonymous words for the same concept, e.g. picture OR image
- Use an * to search for multiple words from the same root, e.g. art* will find images with the words: art, artist or artistic.
- Use quote marks (“ ”) around search phrases (multiple words that should be searched together), e.g. “ancient Egypt”
Double-click on an image to view the image.
Double-click on an image to view the image.
Use the + and - buttons at the lower right to zoom in and out.
Click on the i button below the image to display data about the image.

Google Art Project
Part of Google Cultural Institute. More than 40,000 high-resolution (note the magnification tool available) images of works from museums from over 40 countries. Browse by institutions or by artists.
Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Image and text database of objects from the collections of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor.
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
"AICT certifies that the image copies provided (..) are licensed for non-profit".
Art cyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
Comprehensive index to the online exhibits of thousands of artists.
Web Gallery of Art
Database of European painting and sculpture from time periods between 1000 and 1850, currently containing over 23,.200 reproductions.
ARtSource
Annotated links to art and architecture sites.
Timeline of Art History
The Timeline of Art History presents the Met’s (Metropolitan Museum of Art) collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history.

International Center of Photography Museum (New York City)
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
"One of the first museums to recognize photography as a legitimate art form, SFMOMA has been collecting and exhibiting photographs since 1935."
The Wallis Annenberg Photography Space
More than fifteen thousand works that span the period from the medium's invention in 1839 to the present."
Helios: Photography Online (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Early Photography: Making Daguerreotypes (Getty Museum)
"Although primarily a nineteenth-century medium involving a painstaking process, daguerreotypy is still practiced today by an active -- and avid -- group of devotees." (quoted from website)
Video: 5 minutes, 42 seconds
Photography: The Wet Collodion Process (Getty)
"Invented in 1851, the wet collodion photographic process produced a glass negative and a beautifully detailed print. Preferred for the quality of the prints and the ease with which they could be reproduced, the new method thrived from the 1850s until about 1880." (quoted from website)
Video: 6 minutes, 13 seconds
The Early Photography -- Europe 1800-1900
A video created by Getty Museum.on making daguerreotype; you can also see a video on "The wet collodion process" by clicking on the link at the left panel.
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY PODCAST
Photographic processes including the cyanotype, the Kodak Brownie camera,
latent image and immediate image, tri-color photographic technique and many more...
See also Photo History Links
Camera Position