Research, Citation, & Class Guides: Art Studio 230: Printmaking Introductory Survey: Images

Finding Photos & Digital Images

These sources will help you locate images. But remember that you must properly credit information taken from these sources, even if the material is considered to be in the public domain. See the Citing section of this guide.

Artcyclopedia
Search by artist, artwork or art museum
ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. See the Library's ARTstor Guide for help in using ARTstor.
AskArt
Includes information on 52,000 artists
Creative Commons Search
Search for images you can use and/or modify, adapt and build upon without violating copyright
Discover Yale Digital Content
Search 250,000 objects from Yale's art museums and other digital collections.
Google Images
Search for images available online. Google Advanced Image Search is available for more specific searching, including image size, color, file type.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Online
Nearly 400,000 of the Museum's high resolution digital images are freely available for non-commercial use. The Image Resources page will explain more about the images and terms of use. Look for the OASC icon in photo captions for open-access images.
Research@UWW
To search for an artist as a subject, use the right-hand drop-down menu beneath the search box and choose in subject and type Last Name, First Name in the search box. Or you can just type the artist's name or the work of art in quotation marks: "Thomas Hart Benton".
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
The UWDC provides quality digital resources from University of Wisconsin libraries to UW faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state, and scholars at large. Resources within the collections are free and publicly accessible online.

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