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Image Credits and Copyright
Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC)
Intended to assist users in assessing the intellectual property status of a specific image documenting a work of art, a designed object, or a portion of the built environment.
Image Collections
Google Art Project
Museums large and small, classic and modern, world-renowned and community-based from over 40 countries have contributed more than 40,000 high-resolution images of works ranging from oil on canvas to sculpture and furniture.
Government Resources for Art [FDLP]
A guide set up by the Federal Depository Libraries Program with many links to online image collections and other visual arts resources.
NY Public Library Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.
Museum Collections
Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures.
The Frick Collection
Internationally recognized as a premier museum and research center, the Frick is known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts.
The Gugenheim Collection Online
The Collection Online features a searchable database of selected artworks from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection. The site currently contains more than 1450 artworks by over 470 artists from the Guggenheim’s overall permanent collection of over 7,000 artworks.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection
An art collection of world importance, including works that rank among the most significant of their type. Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 2,500 objects—paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, photographs and letters—from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of the ten largest in the world, with the most significant art collections. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
MoMA is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world, offering an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film, and electronic media.
Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA)
PMA is among the largest museums in the United States, with a collection of more than 227,000 works of art and more than 200 galleries presenting painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, decorative arts, textiles, and architectural settings from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center collects the visual, performing, and media arts of our time. Walker Collections reflect a diverse range of artistic pursuits, including: a permanent collection of visual arts; the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection; performing arts commissions; the library’s Rosemary Furtak Collection of artists’ books; the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collection; and the Digital Arts Study Collection.