Looking for good online sources for art images to use in presentations for assignments or lectures or perhaps just for your own personal edification? CPCC Library has some great suggestions!
Subscription Databases
CAMIO
This database features many high resolution images of art and sculpture with authoritative descriptive information. It can be found in the Find an Article section of our website, then use the browse databases by name link to find the CAMIO database.
Free Web Resources
There are also many authoritative websites freely available on the web. Here are a few favorites:
Google Life Magazine Image Archive
Search millions of photographs featured in Life magazine.
The Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
This is a good collection of high-resolution free-use images provided by Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s art-historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl. He has photographed all of the images and provides them free for educational use. It is certainly not an exhaustive collection but it provides high quality images from Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque, 18th-20th century and some Non-Western images. A good feature is the text-book concordance, providing the page numbers for many popular art history text-books. Very useful for someone putting together a lecture or presentation.
Art cyclopedia
A database providing references to “sites on the World Wide Web where artists’ works can be viewed online.” The database is searchable by artist name, work title or museum. The most represented artists are painters and sculptors. It is a good source for listings of modern and contemporary artists. And while it is a truly ugly interface it is effective in finding museum websites with access to the artists’ work for which you have searched.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Many cool collections such as Egyptian Art, African Art, Chinese Art, Islamic Art, Latin American Art, ancient Greek…to name a few. They also have large photography, contemporary and modern art collections as well as a fantastic costume and textiles collection. (you can search the costumes by era) The collections are searchable by title, subject, or artist. Or you can simply browse the collections. Thumbnail images are available for all the images. The only drawback is copyright restrictions prevent viewing enlarged images of many of their contemporary or modern works.
The Mint Museum’s Mint Wiki
It provides “Mint Museum exhibition information and resources”, as well as “a place for curators, educators, docents and other users to add their expertise, knowledge and insight about the exhibitions in an immediate and accessible way!”
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For more information on visual art resources contact Jennifer Ballance — jennifer.ballance@cpcc.edu.