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Canadian Image Collections

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.

 

Creative Commons Images

There are numerous sources of Creative Commons-licensed content, including: 

Openverse
Originally called Creative Commons, this site includes an option to search for Creative Commons content across numerous sources, including Flickr, Google and Wikimedia Commons among many others.

Wikimedia Commons
This site offers fully searchable access to media, such as images, audio and videos, that has been uploaded by users, mainly for use on Wikipedia. Most of the content is available under some sort of Creative Commons license and licensing information is clearly provided at the bottom of each piece of media's individual page.

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.

Archive of medieval iconography, from Princeton University. Formerly known as Index of Christian Art.

Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art – limit 8 users)

Image Collections

Architecture in the Classical Tradition (ACT) Canadian resource

Created by Pierre du Prey, Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, reflecting over forty years of teaching, photographing, studying, writing about, and helping to preserve our built environment. Contains image database, glossary, and chronological, thematic and theoretical paths.

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

Cleveland Museum of Art: Open Access Collection

Digital rights waived to approximately 30,000 objects to provide unlimited online access to works in museum's collection in the public domain (artists dead for at least 120 years) for use by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose.

Digital Archive of American Architecture

Search principally by architect, building type, century (Prof. Jeffery Howe, Boston College)

Digital Imaging Project

Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern (Prof. Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University).
 
Europeana Collections
Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections,

Folger Shakespeare Library: Digital Image Collection

Direct link to database catalog for high resolution images from books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, and art to re-use for any purpose provided credit is given to the Folger Shakespeare Library as the source.

Frick Digital Image Archive

The Frick Collection's digital image archive

 

Getty Search Gateway
The Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.

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. See also Google Street Art Project.

Google Arts & Culture

Platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative's partner museums.

GRI Digital Collections

The Getty Research Institute Digital Collections

Library of Congress: Digital Collections

Library of Congress's gateway to primary source materials in over 100 historical collections relating to the history and culture of the United States.

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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Collection Online

Over 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s collection may be downloaded for non-commercial use.

National Gallery of Art: The Collection

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

V&A Collections

1,146,388 objects and 416,583 images from the Victoria and Albert'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

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

Web Gallery of Art

Digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1100 and 1850

Streamed Video

If the link does not work from here, go to the library homepage, click on Databases, and type the name of the database.

CAN-Core Academic Video is a Canadian streaming video platform that includes a collection of documentary and feature films by Indigenous filmmakers.

Curio.ca

Digital Theatre Plus

Films on Demand

Globe on Screen (I & II - 2008-2015, 2016-2018)

Met Opera on Demand

Naxos Video Library

NFB.ca - National Film Board's online Screening Room

Theatre in Video

 

Art at Queen's

Digital Agnes: Supporting collaborative and interdisciplinary exchange and experimentation in digital arts programming, including commissions, exhibitions, publications, podcasts, children’s programs, and more

Mattiusie Manakudluk (QC 1911-Puvirnituq QC 1968), In Summer They Went Camping, In Winter They Went for Seals, 1968, stonecut on paper, 27/30. Gift of Margaret McGowan Artsci’78, 2017 (60-003.18, AEAC). (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo, 1658, oil on canvas. Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 2015. (58-008, AEAC). (Photo by Bernard Clark, Queen's Gazette, April 28, 2016)