Image Guide

The collection resources of the Art Institute of Chicago feature many downloadable high-resolution images and other media.

The Barnes Foundation offers many of its public-domain images for download and allows one to search for works by visual relationships.

Bernard Berenson’s Drawings of the Florentine Painters is a digital resource based on Berenson’s publication of the same name. This research tool permits searches for any of the drawings listed in the three editions (1903, 1938 in English; 1961, in Italian). Filters allow browsing and searching by artist and title (as provided by Berenson, in English or Italian), location and technique.

The British Library licenses for download much of its digitized collections materials online, including both library and archival holdings.

Free image access, with registration, to over 1 million images published under a Creative Commons license of the museum's collection of over 4 million objects. Larger images are available for publication upon request.

The Cambridge Digital Library is a project operated by the Cambridge University Library and makes many of its collections materials available online for download.

Open access to over 30,000 images of works in the museum's permanent collection.

71,000 items high resolution images of maps that are free and open to the public.

The digital portal of the Bodleian Libraries features over 900,000 images of approximately 16,000 collection items.

DPLA Images lets you search the Digital Public Library of America, a collection of millions of cultural heritage objects from libraries, archives, and museums across the country, for images. Enter a search term, or click "surprise me" for a treat.

This initiative of the European Union offers access to images from over 3,000 European cultural institutions, many licensed under the Creative Commons.

The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.

Explore collections from around the world — including the Philadelphia Museum of Art — with links to other resources in the Google product ecosystem.

Harvard offers over 230,000 works from the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums available for viewing and download online.

The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress.

Millions of images from the Life Magazine photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are made available through the joint work of Life and Google.

LACMA offers TIFF downloads in addition to a JPEGs; one can limit searches to public-domain images.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes many open-access images.

Collection areas cover Taonga Māori, Pacific Cultures, New Zealand History, Photography, Art, Botany, and Zoology these topics are complemented by over 190,000 images, with over 60,000 available for high-resolution download.

The National Gallery of Art has adopted an open access policy for digital images of works of art in its collections that the Gallery believes to be in the public domain.

The NYPL offers high-resolution downloads of nearly 900,000 images from its collections.

With over 16,000 works, PAFA's ever-evolving and internationally renowned permanent collection ranges from 18th- and 19th-century masters Benjamin West, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, and Mary Cassatt, to modern and contemporary artists including Charles Demuth, Jacob Lawrence, Alice Neel, Mickalene Thomas, Andy Warhol, and Kehinde Wiley.

Rijksstudio is an innovative digital application that makes a large part of the Rijksmuseum's collection available to all, absolutely free of charge. Some 125,000 well- and lesser-known pictures can be examined in close detail.

Through its open access initiative, one can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images from throughout its many museums.

A sortable, Google Sheet of open access repositories created by Douglas McCarthy and Dr. Andrea Wallace. Includes institution name, country, and which open license an institution is in use.

All of the U.S. National Archives’ images that are part of The Flickr Commons are marked “no known copyright restrictions.” They represent a sample of the more than 25 million photographs and 20,000 graphic images (posters and some original artwork) in the Archives' holdings.

Over 1 million freely available high-resolution stock images.

VADS (the Visual Arts Data Service) has provided services to the academic community for 20 years and has built up a portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 140,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.

The Walters makes available thousands of artworks, from around the world and across the centuries.

The Wellcome Library in London made 100,000 art and medicine images available online for open use. This collection is where to look for offbeat, bizarre photos including medical art of all types including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements. The images may be used for commercial or personal purposes, with an acknowledgement of the original source (Wellcome Library, London).

Contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. You are free to use these images for non-profit educational purposes, but give credit to the copyright holders who retain rights to the images. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License.

The Yale Center for British Art is a public art museum and research institute that houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom.