Art Subject Guide
Images
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The Image Catalog database is a catalog of University Libraries’ slide and digital images collection. Use the Image Catalog to locate art images for instructional and research purposes. Search the catalog by creator, title, keyword, date, medium, culture, stylistic period, subject, and more. The search result screen displays a thumbnail image and brief descriptive text. For digital images the thumbnail will be of the actual work. For slides (images that are not available in a digital format) the resulting thumbnail image will be a placeholder and will contain the call number of that image so it can be located in the original slide collection housed in the Music and Dance Library. To learn more about the item, double click the thumbnail; a larger image is then displayed with the catalog record appearing on the left.
Image Catalog uses the LUNA Insight image database system. For information please call Miranda Howard at 387-5166 or Cecelia Moore at 387-4776.
Restricted to WMU Faculty, Staff, and Students.
ARTstor is a digital image database containing more than 300,000 art images and descriptive information for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. Among the collections represented in ARTStor at the John C. and Susan L Huntinton Archive of Buddhist Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Uffizi Gallery, the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union School of Art, and the National History Museum, London. ARTStor also provides the tools to create presentations using ARTStor images combined with images from users personal collections.
CAMIO - OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images
CAMIO contains over 23,000 images of works of art representing a broad range of fine and decorative arts from well-known collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Lost Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asia Society, and the Victorian and Albert Museum. All works are represented by a high-resolution image and description. Some images also have additional views plus sound, video, and curatorial notes. Images are available for use classroom use, research, educational web sites, and other forms of educational projects. This tool is designed for use in studio art, art history, anthropology, religion, and other courses in the humanities. CAMIO replaces the AMICO Library.
This archive is composed of photos, graphics, text, and audio clips from the Associated Press (AP). The photo archive contains photographs from the current year's collection and a selection of images of negatives and prints dating back to the 1840s. Most of the coverage is from 1995. The graphics archive includes graphics, maps, illustrations, and logos prepared by AP artists since 1999. The audio database has more than half a million audio clips from the 1920s to the present. The text database contains over 700,000 full-text AP articles. All are updated daily.
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New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, and more.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Searchable collection of over one million digital images representing a
cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs
Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The
Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a
contribution to education and scholarship.
Records over 23,000 Christian art works in worldwide collections from early apostolic time to 1400 AD. Records include subject and stylistic descriptors, school, object type, bibliographies and picture references, cross references, locations, and digital images, when available.(May not work from off campus.)
Corbis - The Place for Pictures on the Internet
A collection of digital images covering many subject areas. Think of this site as an electronic picture file with fine art images as well as images of objects. Imaging licensing is available for Corbis images.
Image database of stock photography, illustration, clip art, stock footage, and stock music containing both royalty free and royalty managed pictures. Includes many royalty free images of monumental architecture.
More infoAICT Art Images for College Teaching
Site compiled by professors at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Contains images for the teaching and study of art history survey courses and much more.
This Web site links the user to a variety of images on the Internet. Use this site as a visual dictionary to locate images of specific objects. This is not a fine art site.
Image collection includes images of birds in full view and detail, including close-up views of feathers created by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Pennsylvania. Images are copyrighted.
More infoThe familiar Google search engine will locate sources of digital images on the Web.