Visual Resources Collection
Online Resources
Here's a number of useful websites we've compiled; as new resources become available, we'll continue to add them, so check back. Although many of the images contained on these sites are available for educational purposes, please read any image use or copyright policies posted on these sites before you download an image.
- ARTstor
Image database for Reed College users only. - Art and Architecture - CONTENTdm at Reed
Image database for Reed College users only. - Getty Images
- Oxford Art Online
Click Image Search
Includes image collections from Art Resource, Bridgeman Art Library, and Art image links to museums as well as images embedded in articles. - Mother of all Art History
University of Michigan's compilation of art history departments, research resources, image collections, museums, online exhibitions.
- Art Kiosk, California State University, K. Cohen
WorldArt image database allows you to search over 35,000 images from throughout the world. Created by Kathleen Cohen with other faculty, staff and students of the California State University. - Art Images for College Teaching
Survey of images made available by its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl. - Visual Resources Association: Intellectual Property Rights/Copyright
General resources for administration of image collections and copyright.
General Sources
- Great Buildings Online Collection
Images of more than 800 buildings. - Berkeley Spiro Database
Architecture Visaul Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley. The collection numbers over 250,000 slides and 20,000 photographs.
Architecture
- Louvre
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Modern Art
- Portland Art Museum
- Uffizi Gallery
- Vatican Museum
Museums
- Duke University
Historical photographs of China - George Eastman House
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photography
- Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office
- U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright Basics - University of Oregon, C. Sundt
- University of Texas: Copyright Crash Course
- Visual Resources Association
Copyright
- A Few Scanning Tips by Wayne Fulton
- A Quick Start Guide to Using PowerPoint®
For Image-based Presentations (pdf)
Cornell University, Knight Visual Resources Collection
- ARTstor Offline Image Viewer Instructions
- Digital Photography Tutorials
- Fine Arts Visual Resources Center PowerPoint guides, Indiana University, Bloomington
Scroll down to the PowerPoint section. - Using PowerPoint to Create
an Art History Presentation (pdf)
NYU, Institute of Fine Arts
