Art History

Search thousands of digital images of artworks and other objects. JSTOR's image catalog includes almost everything previously held in Artstor, which will be retired in August of 2024.

This collection contains works of art and related materials from the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Individual records often include detailed information about objects as well as images. Searchable by artist, title, subject, or other keywords.

Allows you to search for works held by the Brooklyn Museum. Entries are short, including basic information about the piece and a small image.

MFA Images has historical portraits, examples of different art movements, images of objects from numerous cultures, and beautiful illustrations that span the Museum’s encyclopedic collection.

Search more than 80,000 works from the MoMA currently available online.

This online collection features over 45,000 images from all areas of the museum collection. Register for a free account to store and organize images.

The AIGA archives and special collections serve to identify, preserve, and make collections of enduring value available to the public. With more than 20,000 selections dating back to 1924, the AIGA Design Archives is a vital record of all disciplines of communication design.

The Whitney's collection online provides unprecedented access to over 21,000 works by more than 3,000 artists. These works in all mediums—painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, film, video, installation, and new media—serve as a remarkable resource for understanding art history and the creative process of artists in the United States from 1900 to today.

Allows you to search collections across Smithsonian museums including the American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn, and the National Portrait Gallery.

Spanning the history of the medium from its beginning in 1839 to the present, the Art Institute's photography collection contains works of many of the medium's celebrated practitioners

Collection of historical and contemporary photography - browseable by artist, searchable by keyword.

A curated list of links to digital photography collections spanning the 19th-21st centuries.

accessCeramics is a growing collection of contemporary ceramics images by recognized artists enhancing ceramics education worldwide.

The most accessible print room in New York City, the Print Collection of The New York Public Library encompasses a specialized reference collection of over 15,000 volumes on the history of prints and printmakers; artist clipping files; and a collection of close to 200,000 original prints, ranging from woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs, and screenprints to digital prints, covering the history of the art in the West from the 15th century to the present, and Japanese prints from the 10th century to the present. The collection also includes illustrated books, artists’ books, and a small collection of drawings.

The Ukiyo-e.org database and image similarity analysis engine, created by John Resig to aide researchers in the study of Japanese woodblock prints. The database currently contains over 213,000 prints from 24 institutions.

Savannah College of Art and Design's ACA library in Atlanta owns a premier collection of over 2,100 artists' books, and includes online images and even short videos of many of them. Artists' books are works of art that experiment with the potential of the book. The genre includes immense diversity in shape, medium, and content. SCAD's collection contains unique works by individual artists as well as small editions and items from fine arts presses.