Attributed to Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798-1863. Winter Landscape. Black and white chalk on buff paper, c. 1838. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Williamstown, Mass.; Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955, JSTOR.
Founded in 1977 by Martha Beck (1938–2014), The Drawing Center—an exhibition space in downtown Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood—explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art, and creative thought. Its activities are both multidisciplinary and broadly historical, and include exhibitions, publications, and educational and public programs.
THEY DRAW, a creative playground for illustration, features the work of artists, illustrators, doodlers, and drawers from around the world. It was founded in 2010.
The founding principle of THEY DRAW is to showcase the work of illustrators worldwide. This mission holds true today and guides the future of this platform.
Find Artists, Art Galleries and Art Resources in Calgary. We feature Calgary Artist members who are disciplined in painting in oil, acrylic, water colour and drawing to digital photography, clay, ceramic, stone carving, printmaking, sculpture, jewellery and more. Canadian artists may list their website on Artists in Canada for free.
We want you to be a part of the conversation on Canadian art and its history regardless of your access to bricks-and-mortar museums or knowledge level. ACI offers an ever-growing online, open-source comprehensive bilingual library and a wide range of resources on the artists who have defined this country’s cultural landscape. We are committed to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusivity in all aspects of our programming, staffing, and governance. We celebrate and support Canadian artists of all backgrounds, inclusive of all BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ communities. Our library of open-source books and our K-12 education programs reach hundreds of thousands in Canada and abroad. Based at Massey College at the University of Toronto, the Art Canada Institute is a not-for-profit educational organization and a registered Canadian charity.
Art, Design and Architecture Collection
This art research database covers a broad range of subjects from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design.
This art research database covers a broad range of subjects from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design.
Artstor is now on JSTOR! The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring a range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. All images are accompanied by comprehensive metadata and are rights-cleared for educational use. Note: See My library account for details on registering and creating a personal account for full access to Artstor resources.
Database allows users to access—and simultaneously cross-search—an expanding range of Oxford’s acclaimed art reference works: Grove® Art Online, the Benezit® Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies.
This database spans world history from the ancient world all the way up to recent current events, putting issues of interest in their historical context.
Note: For some of these resources, you may have to limit your searches to items in the public domain. Always read and review the terms and conditions on all websites and remember to cite your sources.
Creative Commons search portal - find music, images, videos, 3D models and more available under CC-licenses.
Good Resources for Finding Images of Diverse People - an excellent listing of sources for finding openly-licensed or royalty-free diverse images (stock photos, etc.) of people.
Project Gutenberg - free eBooks where the US copyright has expired.
Public Domain Review - focuses on works in the public domain: the vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restrictions.
Digital Public Library of America - contains material in the public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.
Wikimedia Commons - free-to-use images, sounds, and other media including video.
Library of Congress - free to use and reuse images including books, newspapers, manuscripts, prints and photos, maps, musical scores, films, sound recordings and more.
Flickr - this link will take you to the Creative Commons Flickr set where you can search for images under various CC-licenses.
Canadiana - provides open and free access to a large collection of full-text historical content about Canada, including books, magazines and government documents.
Europeana - "We share and promote Europe's digital cultural heritage to be used and enjoyed by everyone for learning, for work, or just for fun."
The Smithsonian Open Access collection - use and reuse millions of Smithsonian images.
The Auckland Museum - search for and utilize openly licensed images from our Natural Sciences, Documentary Heritage and Human History Collections.
The Rijksmuseum - explore the museums collection and then check out the Rijksstudio where you can explore over 700,000 works, available under a Creative Commons 1.0 Universal license, essentially copyright-free and royalty-free.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access Collection - explore the collection of images that are free to use and reuse as you wish.
The National Gallery of Art Open Access Images - another great resource to search for free-to-use images.
The Cleveland Museum of Art - Search by keyword. The results are already limited to those in the public domain.
The Art Institute of Chicago - as above: search via keyword as the results are already limited to those in the public domain.
Paris Musées - images from Paris museums. Search by keyword and relax! It's already set to bring back results in the public domain.
The New York Public Library's Public Domain Digital Collection - explore more than 180,000 items in this collection that are free to share, use, and reuse.
Old Book Illustrations - discover these old, and free-to-use, old book illustrations.
Open Art Images - search for free, high-resolution images.
Getty Museum's Open Collection - search for open content from the Getty Museum.
Unsplash: Photos for Everyone - use and reuse these images for free commercially or non-commercially.
British Library Flickr Collection - 1 million + images from 17th, 18th, and 19th century books held by the British Library.
Campus Library Digital Collection / Wetlands Collection - includes documents, images, and maps related to the history of the UWB/CCC campus and the University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia Community College. Includes Wetlands Collection with almost 1000 Creative Commons photographs.
World Images - primarily historical images organized into 18 categories, including Women, Science, Cities, Natural World, Science, and more.
Yale University Digital Commons - Yale's digital collections, including images from the Peabody Museum, Center for British Art, University Art Gallery, Library Map Collection, and Walpole Library Prints and Drawings.
LIFE Magazine Photo Archive - collection of images from LIFE magazine, accessible through Google Images. Images in this collection are approved for "personal, non-commercial" use.
Historic NASA images on Flickr - images of both space and space exploration, including from the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions.
National Park Service Multimedia Search - images from more than 400 locations managed by the National Park Service.
USA.gov Image Search - single search pulling together multiple sources of government photos.
Science and Environment Collections - a collection of government sources for science-based images, including the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Agricultural Library.
Open Clip Art Library - public domain contemporary graphics contributed by users.
Open Icon Library - an open collection of icons.
Wikimedia Commons - Crystal Clear Icons - icon collection from the Wikimedia Commons.
Wikimedia Icons - Tango Icons - icon collection from the Wikimedia Commons.
Pexels - royalty-free images and videos and free stock photos.
The Noun Project - free icons for all.
Wellcome Collections (UK) - find thousands of Creative Commons licensed images from historical library materials and museum objects to contemporary digital photographs and science images.
Free-Images.com - every image is Public Domain or CC0. Free to Download and Free to Use. High resolution images can be downloaded without setting up an account.