LibGuides: *Art & Design Subject Guide: Image Resources

Online Visual Resources

Artstor via JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital library of over one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences. From the linked JSTOR homepage, click the "Images" tab to search the visual materials collection.
BiblioBoard Anthologies This link opens in a new window
Contains anthologies, which are curated collections of books, images, documents, artifacts, sounds and video related to a specific theme. BiblioBoard's anthologies differ in size and scope, but generally you will find dozens of books and other pieces of media related to a topic.

Life/Google Image Archive
Search millions of photos from the Life Magazine photo archive, stretching from the 1860's to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of Life Magazine and Google.
National Gallery of Art
Online collection of the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art. Can be searched by subject, artist and title.
NYPL Digital Gallery
An online repository of images from the New York Public Library. Images have been collected from primary sources.
MoMa
The online collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

The following websites offer a great selection of images that are free to use. Some images may require a citation under CC licenses.