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Canadian Image Collections

Digital Museums Canada Canadian resource
Virtual exhibits, teaching resources, and innovative projects from Canadian museum collections, with images containing detailed information on the contributing museum and copyright information.

Images Canada Canadian resource

Collections of participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada.

McCord Museum Collections Online Canadian resource
Artefacts online held by the McCord Museum in Montreal and by the partner museums, including 450,000 images online from the McCord's Notman Photographic Archives.

National Gallery of Art: The Collection Canadian resource
Search the entire collection by artist's last name, key words in the title, object information, credit line, provenance name, accession number, exhibition history, and/or catalogue raisonné.

 

Art Image Databases @Queen's

Artstor: Artstor is JSTOR’s cross-disciplinary collection of over 2 million rights-cleared images from around the world, including sub-collections such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and modern architectural plans from Columbia University. Offers high-resolution images from ancient times to ther present day and includes artifacts, documents, and photographs. Downloaded images including zoomed views to your computer or JSTOR Workspace.

Queen's Agnes Art Gallery: Search the collection.

Index of Medieval Art: Formerly Index of Christian Art. Important archive of medieval iconography, from Princeton. 
Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art – limit 8 users)
Vogue Archive: From the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.

Image Collections

Architecture in the Classical Tradition (ACT): Created by Pierre du Prey, Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, reflecting over forty years of teaching, photographing, studying, writing about, and helping to preserve the built environment. Contains image database, glossary, and chronological, thematic and theoretical paths.

Art UK: Showcase for art in over 3,200 public, collaborating UK collections (museums, universities, town halls, hospitals, civic buildings), where 80% of the art is not on public view.

British Library: Images Online: The Picture Library of the British Library holds over 150 million items including the King's Library, manuscripts, rare books, musical texts, maps, illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs spanning almost 3000 years

British Library: Online Gallery: 30,000 items from the British Library Collection, including Online Exhibitions

British Museum Collection: High-definition images, enlargeable for detailed examination, 4.5 million early to contemporary objects

Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern (Prof. Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University).

Folger Shakespeare Library: Digital Image Collection: High resolution images from books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, and art to re-use provided credit is given. Direct link to database catalog

Google Art Project: Google's collaboration with over 250 art institutions to enable the discovery and viewing of tens of thousands of artworks from more than 6,000 artists in high resolution images online

Google Arts & Culture: Platform to access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative's partner museums.

Louvre Collections: More than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. Updated on a daily basis

Mapping Gothic France: Project of Dr. Stephen Murray, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University and Dr. Andrew Tallon, Art, Vassar College, funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A 3-D database of images, texts, charts and historical maps, to explore Gothic architecture and the formation of France in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Rijksstudio: Over 709,000 digitized artworks,searchable by artist, object type, period, and place. Most works are in the public domain - downloadable and even customizable with the museum's free resources.

V&A Collections: 1,146,388 objects and 416,583 images from the V&A's collections

Visual Collections - images of art, history and culture: More than 300,000 images in cartography, fine arts, architecture and photography from over fifty renowned collections

Web Gallery of Art: Digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1100 and 1850

Multimedia

CAN-Core Academic Video Canadian platform that includes documentary and feature films by Indigenous filmmakers. 

Criterion on-Demand: Over 2900 films ranging from classic film, documentaries, international film, North American feature films, cult classics. Requires use of the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in on both PC and Mac.

Films on Demand: Documentaries and educational videos,

NFB.ca: National Film Board's Online Screening Room: Canadian resource Over 1000 NFB films are free to all Canadians, and the Library  also has an additional account 3,000 films.

U.S. Image Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art: Open Access Collection: Digital rights waived to 30,000 objects to provide open access to museum's collection in the public domain (artists dead for at least 120 years).

Frick Digital Image Archive: Digital image archive

GRI Digital Collections: The Getty Research Institute Digital Collections

Library of Congress: Digital Collections: Primary sources in over 100 historical collections of US history and culture.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Collection Online: Over 400,000 high-resolution images of public domain works in the Museum’s collection may be downloaded for non-commercial use.

The Walters Art Museum: Online Collection: High-resolution archival images from the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, along with detailed catalog descriptions