Image resources on the Web are extensive. Many of the sites also contain excellent documentation and refer the user to similar Web sites. Some of the more extensive image indexes and Web sites follow:

IMAGE INDEXES

Art Images for College Teaching  -  AICT is a free exchange (royalty free) of image resources for and among members of the educational community. Managed by MCAD the Minneapolis College of Art and Design supplementary textbook concordances are available to instructors. EXCELLENT.

ARTstor.  [REQUIRES LOG-IN] A database of more than 300,000 digital images from many time periods and cultures.  Relevant for study of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and other forms of visual culture.  Users can search, view, and save images for scholarly use.  

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ART:21 - “Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century” is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit." Largely video, however, slide-show has over 1000 images of artists and their work.

AccuNet AP MultiMedia Archive - UNAVAILABLE AT UNCA. A subscription index for the Associated Press photo-archive. Contains some 750,000 images drawn from the archive of the Associated Press from 1999 to present, though some photographs date from as early as 1840's. Free trials are available. Unavailable at UNCA.

Artchive
Mark Harden's comprehensive site developed for use by the educational community. Contains core works commonly found in surveys of art. 

Artcyclopedia
A database of over 7,500 images by well-know artists. Can be searched by movement, medium, subject, nationality, name, and by women artists. 

ArtServe
One of the largest databases of images for the history of art and architecture. Searchable, but the images will take some time to load and some are pixilated or lack color.

CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online.  [REQUIRES LOG-IN] Offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.

Getty Images - Stock photography, much of it free of copyright restriction and useful in classroom or projects.

 Harvard University Library - Visual Information Access  A comprehensive 20,000 image database,  most of which are unrestricted.

Princeton Index of Christian Art  - 

Full electronic access as well as the complete hardcopy files are available at these locations:  

Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
Phone: 202-339-6410
 http://www.doaks.org/research.html/

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Phone: 310- 440-7300
http://www.getty.edu/research/library/

Utrecht University
Library of arts and humanities
Drift 27
3512 BR Utrecht, Holland
Phone: 030 253 62 00
http://www.let.uu.nl/bibliotheek/

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
00120 Vatican City
Rome, Italy
http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat_library/

New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library, Picture Collection over 30,000 images of American history and life, New York City, costume, and other subjects. Images are generally derived from out-of-copyright books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, prints and postcards.

SIRIS Catalogs
Six catalogs from The Smithsonian Institution Resarch Information System (SIRIS) are available for searching from this one site. They include: Library Catalog; Art Inventories Catalog; Archives & Manuscripts Catalog; Juley Photographic Collection; Research/ Bibliographies Catalog; and the Smithsonian Chronology Catalog.  

SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library - UC Berkeley. A large and growing online public access catalog of images from around the world at the University of California at Berkeley Architecture Slide Library. Contains over 200,000 slides.   

Virtual Library Museums Pages
Arguably the largest source  and index for links to museums worldwide. Links are often unreliable and many are in language of the country only.

WEB SITES and MUSEUM WEB SITES WITH IMAGES (see also ARCHITECTURE)

ART:21  - Multimedia
For multimedia artists. Videos on the Web site are excerpted from feature length documentaries from the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series.

Art on the Net
Not limited to visual arts.

Amazing Picture Machine
Will search for images in any subject area across the Web. Contains section on copyright of images which is worth noting.

Carol Gerten's Fine Art
Now a for-profit site that is searchable by name and movement but can no longer display copyrighted material. The nationality and time-frame lists are useful.

David Rumsey Collection
Allows free and subscription access to collections at multiple sites. Image quality is very high and includes Cornell University’s Political Americana collection as well as the selected permanent works of eight California museums contained in Museums & the Online Archive of California.  As a combined resource, this growing collective of arts and cultural heritage resources numbers more than 300,000 images.

Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute
Use the search button at the bottom of the screen to go to a wealth of resources, including: Getty Museum Collections ; Getty Research Library Catalog ; Getty Research Library Photo Study Collection  Database ; Special Collections Finding Aids ; Getty Information Institute ; Getty Provenance Index

Great Buildings
An extensive site for photographic images and architectural drawings of buildings from around the world. Also includes 3D models, commentary, bibliographies, and web links to additional sites. A first stop for architecture searches.

Images on the World Wide Web: A Guide to Resources & Collections 
A nice concise list of sites which provide images. Broad spectrum of images. Includes clip art. (A MCAD Web Guide)

Krannert Art Museum
From antiquity to surrealism. Part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Features special hypermedia projects for Web visitors.

Michael C. Carlos Museum
Close-by. Emory University museum. Permanent collection of 15,000 objects and temporary exhibitions.

Musée du Louvre
The Mother of All Art Museums. Selected masterpieces to ogle. Four online databases are accessible via the Louvre Web site: Atlas, the Inventory of the Department of Prints and Drawings, La Fayette Database of American Art, and Joconde.

National Gallery of Art
Search by artist or title, or take the virtual tour of the week. The National Gallery began with the donation of Andrew W. Mellon's considerable collection and has grown with the gifts of hundreds of donors. The museum is open 363 days a year, free of charge to visitors.

National Portrait Gallery,
Smithsonian Museums, United States

National Portrait Gallery,
United Kingdom
Some 90,000 images now available.

New York Times - Museum and Gallery listing
Directory of museums and art gallery highlights, mainly in Manhatten.

Saatchi: The World's Interactive Art Gallery. A British offering of Contemporary art providing the work of little-known as well as established artists whose works are rarely exhibited. Rich, rich source of art and ideas.

Smithsonian Institution
Includes listings for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Hirschorn Museum, National Museum of African Art, National Museum of American Art, National Museum of the American Indian, National Portrait Gallery, and the Sackler and Freer Galleries.     

Web Gallery of Art
A searchable database of painting and sculpture. Limited to European art and to the Gothic through Baroque periods. Over 6,500 reproductions are available with biographies of artists and commentary on the art.

WebSEEK
Developed by Columbia University. Can be searched by subject. Image quality is mixed but useful for images to be used in classroom exercises in multi-media and design.

Whitney Museum of American Art
A museum of contemporary art.  High quality images.