Research Guides: Art: Researching the Visual Arts: Finding Images

Art image

Potter Seated with Double Gourd Vase: Ch'ing-pai Ware

14th Century

Unknown Artist

Cleveland Museum of Art

Grove Art Online (via Oxford Art Online) This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Visual Arts, Artists, Aesthetics
Info type: scholarly encyclopedia articles, biographies, images, book info, definitions
Access Tips: Up to 3 users at a time. If you don't get in, try again later.
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Find articles and images related to fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.
Access Tips: Also available via mel.org
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
View art images and create presentations
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Humanities
Info type: images, display engine
Help: Guides to Using ARTstor

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Collection is searchable by time period, geographical region or thematic category. Click on image to find related resources, including essays.
Getty Search Gateway
Allows users to search Getty's databases, catalogs, collection inventories and archival finding aids. Users can browse by type of resource (i.e., paintings), or by historical periods, artists, object types, etc.
Art Institute of Chicago
Over 2500 works; click on image for descriptive information.
The British Museum
To search the collection's 4,000,000 items, type a term into the main search box and click ‘Search’. More than one search term can be entered, as well as OR (which must be upper-case) to broaden the results.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Images can be narrowed by artist name, type of artwork or chronological period.
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Online repository of O’Keeffe’s artwork, photographs and correspondence.
The Guggenheim Museums
A searchable database of over 1,700 artworks from the Guggenheim museums in New York, Venice and Bilbao. Browse by artist, date, medium, movement or venue.
The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Contains information on the 244 photographs in this collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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