LibGuides: Art: Images

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Image Databases | Museum Image Collections | Copyright and Fair Use

Image databases

ARTstor
Digital archive containing over 1.6 million world art and architecture images. Requires Flash Player version 6.0 or later.

Europeana
Provides access to images of artworks and other digitized materials held in European archives, libraries and museums.
Google Arts & Culture
Not to be confused with Google Images, Google Arts & Culture provides images, exhibits and interactive virtual views of museums and other participating cultural institutions and historical sites around the world.

Museum collections

Many museums have digitized and made their collections available online. Here is a list of select local, national and international digitized museum collections.

Local Collections

National and International Collections

Design Collections

Copyright and Fair Use for Images

The College Art Association publishes a comprehensive guide to understanding Fair Use for the visual arts. You can also consult the Library's research guide on Copyright for more general information.

Remember to always note in your citations where you found images and also look at the terms of use.

Can I Use That Picture? The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images
Flowchart from thevisualcommunicationguy.com that explains copyright, fair use, creative commons, and public domain.