Leslie Jones, Dachshund drinking from water glass, 1937, Boston Public Library
Artstor (subscription database)
A digital library of over two million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Art and Architecture in Video (subscription database)
Streaming videos on art and architecture topics.
Art Project - Google Cultural Institute
Images from nearly 800 museums and cultural organizations
The Arts in Kanopy Streaming Video (subscription database)
Diverse and impressive selection of documentaries, feature films, and experimental works.
Artsy
Free website with over 350,000 images from galleries, museum collections, foundation, artist estates, art fairs, and auctions.
Digital Public Library of America
With over 13 million images, DPLA brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Met's comprehensive art history timeline
Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels, vols. 1 & 2 (subscription database)
Primary source database focused on adult comic and graphic novels.
Wikimedia Commons
A database of 31,706,972 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Over 15 millioin photographs, historical prints, posters, cartoons, documentary drawings, fine prints, and architectural and engineering designs.
Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Studio Museum |
Brooklyn Museum |
Museum of Modern Art |
New-York Historical Society |
Brooklyn Historical Society |
Whitney Museum |
El Museo del Barrio |
Guggenheim Museum |
Museum of the City of New York |
Tenement Museum |
New Museum |
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
American Museum of Natural History |
Staten Island Museum |
Frick Collection |
Museum of the Moving Image |
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Morgan Library and Museum |
Museum of Arts and Design |
Rubin Museum of Art |
Asia Society |
New York Botanical Garden |
Noguchi Museum |
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) |
Art Institute of Chicago |
Cleveland Museum of Art Wonderful collection, especially Chinese art |
Walters Art Museum (Baltimore) Fantastic collection of ancient art through the 19th century |
Yale Digital Collections Images from the Yale Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, and other excellent Yale collections |
SFMOMA |
Detroit Institute of Arts |
National Gallery of Art |
Getty Museum
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston Strong collection with a dedicated center for Latin American art |
Menil Collection Modern and contemporary art, African art, Oceania, Russian icons, etc. Incredible museum! |
Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Smithsonian Institute Millions of images from SI's art, science, and culture collections |
Dallas Museum of Art Over 23,000 objects spanning 5,000 years |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Ancient Egypt to conteporary art, one of the largest collections in the U.S. |
Rijksmuseum |
British Museum |
Berlin State Museums |
Victoria & Albert Museum |
Louvre French museum, think Mona Lisa |
Tate London museums dedicated to British art and international contemporary art |
Statens Museum for Kunst |
Qatar Digital Library Modern life and culture in the Persian Gulf region |
Netherlands Institute for Art History Major European research center for art history |