Research Guides: Find Images for Study: Internet Image Search Engines and Art Gateways

Online Images Sources

Flickr
Most images found are:
- Creative Commons framework for many images
- large-format
- world-wide in scope
- unmodified (or pretty clearly marked when they are)
- easy to download
Google Advanced Image Search
"The images displayed in a Google Image Search may be protected by copyright, so we can't grant you the right to use them for any purpose other than viewing them on the web. If you'd like to use images from our image search, we suggest contacting the site's webmaster to obtain permission. To learn how to find the webmaster of a site, please visit http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9109 ."

Take advantage of the usage rights filters on the Advanced Search and Advanced Image Search pages to find web content (such as text, videos, or images) you can reuse, share, or modify.

Anyone can browse the Web, but usage rights come into play if you're looking for content that you can take and use above and beyond fair use. Site owners can use licenses to indicate if and how content on their sites can be reused.
Google Art Project
"Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces."

Click on "Learn More" to find a video guide to using this tool.

Hint: Use the Advanced Search.
Insight Visual Collections
"View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty
renowned collections." Copyright restrictions for use.
Internet Archive
A 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Wikimedia Commons
For those who wish to reuse material (text and/or graphics) from the Wikimedia projects — on their own website, in print, or otherwise... almost all may be freely reused without individual permission subject to certain restrictions in many cases. Please read the Wikimedia page on using its images.

abstract-art.com
An archived database of abstract art created by Ronald Davis
the-artists.org
Modern & contemporary artists and art...Sculpture, painting, installation, print, performance, photography, collage and multimedia and digital artists. By technique, art style and art movement. Famous, established and emerging artists since 1900 are presented with their portrait, biography and/or portfolio, with links to webresources to find anything you want to know about them, with images of their work, comprehensive biographies and articles, and if it exists, the artist ‘s personal website.
Search artist by alphabet, style, movement, technique, biennial, exhibition, art prize or use the artist and art search engine.
BeinArt International Surreal Art Collective
The beinArt International Surreal Art Collective was founded in 2006 by Jon Beinart. The collective was formed to increase public awareness and appreciation of contemporary Surreal, Fantastic Realism, Magic Realism and Visionary Art.

American Art at the Phillips Collection
Founded by Duncan Phillips, opened to the public in 1921 and was the first museum in America dedicated to modern art.
American Art Museum at the Smithsonian
Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY) - Islamic collection
Europeana
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.

Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 14.6 million items on Europeana. These objects include:

Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Yale Center for British Art

CGSociety of Digital Artists
Global organization for creative digital artists. The CGS supports artists at every level by offering a range of services to connect, inform, educate and promote, by celebrating achievement, excellence and innovation in all aspects of digital art.
Digital Art Museum (DAM)
An online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art. It informs on historical and on contemporary positions choosen by an advisory panel. It exhibits the work of leading Artists in this field since 1956. [DAM] is an on-line museum with a comprehensive exhibition of Digital Art supported by a wide range of background information including biographies, articles, a bibliography and interviews. includes an Essays section with articles by artists and theorists specially selected to place the works in context (many of them by special arrangement with Leonardo journal). A History section lists key events and technologies in date order.
DMOZ Open Directory Project's Links to Digital Art Collections
Collections of net art, conceptual, signal based art form with its roots in the early video art of the 1970's.
Net.Artists investigate the conventions of the Internet and its users. This often involves structural changes: The artist creates a system that can be extended by users, possibly dispensing with hyperlinks, or using them in such a way that any orientation is lost.
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
Dedicated to the propagation of all forms of digital art, new media, digital video art, net art, digital sculpture, interactive multimedia, and the vast panorama of hybrid forms of art and technology that constitute our moment in culture. Committed to supporting local, international, emerging and established artists through exposure in our gallery.
Sampling of Digital Art from the University of Michigan

ArtPromote's Women Artists
ArtCyclopedia's Women Artists
Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Women and Art (Association of College and Research Libraries and the American Library Association)
A selective, annotated list of links with information on women in the visual arts.
Individual women artists' Web pages are not listed, although sites with lists of such links are included.
The World's Women Online!
An electronic art networking project originally established to be presented at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Bejing in 1995. Represents over 1000 images by artists from 64 countries.
Worldwide Women Artists
An international collective of women artists showing and selling our original art through the worldwide web.