GRC Virtual Research Guide: Image Research

A 3-minute video of ARTstor's registration process.

A three minute video outlining fundamentals of image organization and storage in ARTstor.

Frequently asked questions about using ARTstor.

How to use facets to filter your search results for the images you need.

Art Resource is a clearing house for the rights of major European and American museums, archives and collections.

Artists Rights Society (ARS) is a clearing house for the rights of the majority of the artists active in the 20th century

Images from the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library Congress documenting architecture in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types. Materials include digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, written history pages, and supplemental materials.

A database providing images from the collections of the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects, the world’s most extensive visual archive devoted to architecture. Low resolution copies may be downloaded free of charge for personal use or teaching purposes. Higher resolution files suitable for most types of publication or prints for private use may be ordered through the site.

VADS (the Visual Arts Data Service) is based at the Farnham Campus of the University College for the Creative Arts, in the UK. It offers a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.

Search the Collections is a working database providing online access to over 1.1 million catalogue records and over 265,000 images of objects in the Victoria & Albert's collection. Records vary in quality and reliability, and the V&A is continually enriching and updating the database. Searches can be limited to "only those with images".

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries, with the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Searches several sources of Creative Commons media at once, including Flickr, Google, Yahoo, and Wikimedia Commons.

Over 600 digital images of Goldberg's work, including videos, drawings, models, documents and much more.

Over 1600 images of Sullivan's work, including drawings, photographs and documents.

Compfight offers both commercial and CC images, but it separates the two categories clearly. Additionally, it offers filters to search by license or image type.