Kendall College Library

Image Resources

The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars and students in a wide variety of disciplines. Not only historians of art and architecture and others engaged with the visual arts, but individuals in field as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literacy Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies are finding the 500,000+ digital images ARTstor offers to be relevant to their teaching and research.

CAMIO - The Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of many prominent museums. CAMIO includes: Architecture, Costume, Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects, Drawings, Jewelry, Paintings Photographs, Prints, Sculpture, Textiles, and Watercolors

* CURRENTLY GROVE ART IS NOT ACCESSIBLE OFF CAMPUS. THIS SHOULD BE RESOLVED IN THE COMING WEEK. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE AND FOR YOUR PATIENCE AS WE FIX THIS ISSUE*

Click on IMAGES. There is a link for Art Resource which contains over 90,000 images. The next link is for the Bridgeman Art Library - over 100,000 art images from major international museums, galleries and auction houses. Finally, there are over 40,000 links within Grove Art articles to important art images in galleries and museums around the world.

OTHER SELECTED RESOURCES

VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) - Free individual registration

Bridgeman Art Library (Click on register and access as an “art lover”) Contains over 100,000 art images from major international museums, galleries and auction houses.

The Great Buildings Collection

Life Magazine (covers and images)

National Portrait Gallery, London

The New York Public Library Digital Gallery provides access to over 480,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, illustrated books, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, magazines and newspapers as well as original prints and postcards, and other printed ephemera.

The UM Image Source has created a gateway that allows the user to search multiple image collections available on the web. Click on “Collections” to access and search the image collection. There are some limitations on reproduction and use of some of these images.