LibGuides: Art and Art History: Image & Online Catalog Databases

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ARTstor Digital Library
The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2 million digital images in the arts, art history, architecture, anthropology, history, humanities, foreign languages and literatures, religion, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Find more information.
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Met Collection
All images of public-domain works in The Met collection are available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). So whether you're an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 375,000 images of artworks from our collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Explore well over a half a million items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. Spanning a wide range of historical eras, geography, and media, NYPL Digital Collections offers drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, videos, audio, and more. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of The Library, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.

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Getty Publications Virtual Library
Publisher of materials that cover art, photography, archaeology, architecture, conservation, and the humanities for both the general public and specialists. The Virtual Library contains over 250 free and downloadable titles.
Paris Musees Collections Portal
From Smithsonian Magazine:
Now, in a sign of the changing times, the public institution that oversees 14 major museums in Paris is helping audiences around the world easily access and enjoy Courbet’s notorious painting—along with a trove of other important artworks. As Valentina Di Liscia reports for Hyperallergic, Paris Musées has made 100,000 digital reproductions of works held by the city’s museums available free of charge.
MoMA Exhibition History
Digital catalog of exhibitions held by the Museum of Modern Art from 1929 to present.
Open Access at the Met
Resource provides data about The Met collection, including over 492,000 images of public-domain artworks, available for free and unrestricted use.
World Digital Library
Collaboration project between Library of Congress, UNESCO, United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Largest repository of O’Keeffe’s artwork, personal effects, and related archives, including important oral histories, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs, as well as a fine art collection of her work, two historic homes, and other accumulated resources that provide rich context for understanding her art, life, and times.