Art Museum Image Gallery

The library now has a subscription to the Art Museum Image Gallery, a digital resource of art images, all copyright cleared for educational use.

The database contains over 155,000 high quality images taken from the collections of museums around the world. Each image includes a full bibliographic record, and many include curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views, and related multimedia where available. Coverage is from 3000BC to the present, including a number of modern and contemporary artists. Collections represented include those at the Tate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  the Musée du Louvre, San Francisco MOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and hundreds of others.

The Art Museum Image Gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective and is available via the library’s art databases webpage. The images can be downloaded and used for educational purposes.