A rich digital resource of art images, rights-cleared for educational use.

The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. The Art Museum Image Gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, Avery Index to Art Periodicals, and Biography Reference Bank.

• Over 155,000 superior quality images with a full bibliographic record. Many include curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views for many images, and related multimedia where available.

• Essential for programs in art history, studio art, and design.

• You can find works and artists you know, and make unanticipated discoveries.

• Illustrate papers, lectures, assignments, and password-protected websites with high-resolution images.

• Enriches research in multicultural studies, area studies, archaeology, classics, history, religion, cultural studies, literature, and related subject areas.

• Distinguished international museum sources ensure a high level of visual quality and impressive selection of images.

• Presents a broad range of time and place—spans artistic creation from 3000 B.C. to the present, with art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples.

• Superb coverage of contemporary and modern artists.

• Coverage of both fine and decorative art: painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, glass, books and manuscripts, archaeological finds, and more.

• Supports theater department and community theater research on set design, period costumes, and period furniture.

• Provides unprecedented access to museum collections for research, education, and enjoyment.

In-Depth Images Research for a Wide Range of Users Teachers can use Art Museum Image Gallery works in class lectures, assignments, academic presentations, and password-protected course websites. The images are rights-cleared for educational use. Students can use Art Museum Image Gallery works in papers and classroom assignments. Museums can provide patron access to the Art Museum Image Gallery from computer kiosks, and use images for public lectures or scholarly presentations. Versatile for a variety of other users: researchers, librarians, art lovers and collectors, and curators alike will all find the Art Museum Image Gallery a welcome addition to their electronic resources. Search by: Keyword  Artist  Title of Work  Creation Year  Subject  Ownership  Type of Object  Culture or Nationality

 

~ Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection ~

For learning and research needs at commercial and for-profit institutions… While the Art Museum Image Gallery is available strictly to non-profit institutions, Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection delivers images cleared for educational and research use by for-profit and commercial institutions. Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection features more than 62,000 images from the renowned collection of The Art Archive of The Picture Desk, Inc. This fine art and historical picture library covers art, architecture, cultural artifacts, and more, from 3,000 BC to the 20th Century. Areas of special emphasis include ancient civilizations, American, European, and Medieval history, world religions, and classical music. Images are drawn from over 1,800 distinguished sources worldwide: the collections of some of the most important museums of Europe, Africa, North and South America, and Asia. Search Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection on its own, or seamlessly with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and Biography Reference Bank.   Museums and other Outstanding Sources represented in Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection License Agreement