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A rich digital resource of thousands of art images, all rights-cleared for educational use.
Unique to WilsonWeb, this remarkable resource offers unparalleled access to thousands of high quality art images and related multimedia in a single, easy-to-use database.
Drawing on the collections of distinguished museums around the world, the content of Art Museum Image Gallery is rights-cleared for use in educational settings, so they can be employed liberally in class lectures, assignments, academic presentations, and password-protected course websites. Essential for programs in art history, studio art, and design, these images offer a wealth of art and information to enrich learning in cultural studies, area studies, women’s studies, archaeology, history, religion, social studies, literature, and theater department and community theater research on set design, period costumes, and period furniture.
Museums can also make Art Museum Image Gallery available for browsing at kiosks, and can use images in public lectures or scholarly presentations.
Coverage of both fine and decorative art includes
Painting · Sculpture · Drawings and Cartoons · Prints · Photographs · Textiles · Woodcuts · Posters · Costumes and Ceremonial Clothes · Jewelry · Ceramics · Furniture · Glass · Books and Manuscripts · Archaeological Finds · Masks
…and more!
Art Museum Image Gallery features
- More than 165,000 superior quality images with detailed descriptions—many images include curatorial text, provenance data, detail, or multiple views—and related multimedia content where available.
- Coverage of a broad range of time and place, with entries from 3000 B.C. to the present day, and art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples.
- Outstanding coverage of contemporary and modern artists.
- Unprecedented access to museum collections for research, education, and enjoyment.
- WilsonWeb pinpoint accuracy and flexibility in locating desired images—search by keyword, artist, title of work, year of creation, subject, ownership, type of object, and/or culture or nationality.
- Regular updates and additions to maintain your library’s position as a provider of access to the highest quality resources.
You can search Art Museum Image Gallery on its own or combine with other WilsonWeb databases, such as Biography Reference Bank, or other databases in the Art Suite, a feature that competing resources are unable to match.
Why choose Art Museum Image Gallery for your library?
In comparison with some of its leading competitors, Art Museum Image Gallery offers a greater range of content from over ten times as many museums and private collections, and far greater accuracy and flexibility in searching and viewing that content. Don’t be misled by competitor’s who count the same image four, five or more times to inflate their database size - Art Museum Image Gallery’s image count is nearly all unique.
Some search terms—archaeological sites, Christianity, native cultures, Renaissance, Picasso, and American war posters—return as many as 1,000 times more results on Art Museum Image Gallery as they do on competing databases.
See the difference for yourself by comparing the number of images in each database for these search terms:
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Cooperative Product |
Database |
Gallery |
| Archaeological sites |
95 |
1,000 |
4,021 |
| Christianity |
22 |
273 |
9,757 |
| Native cultures |
5 |
59 |
264 |
| Renaissance |
90 |
1,000 |
3,277 |
| Picasso |
1010 |
597 |
1,023 |
| American war posters |
1 |
409 |
875 |
In addition to content from a variety of international museums, Art Museum Image Gallery also boasts thousands of images culled from an expanding range of collections from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, including
- American Cartoon Print Filing Series—Featuring more than 570 political cartoons that cover a wide range of topics from pre-revolutionary America through the presidency of Chester A. Arthur, including Secession, the Civil War, the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, presidential elections, political scandals and gaffes, and more.
- African American Photographs Assembled for the 1900 Paris Exposition—(1899) Images gathered for use in the American Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition and features portraits and scenes of education, work, and daily life, as well as photos presented by W.E.B. Du Bois.
- Fine Prints: Japanese—(1688-1915) Primarily woodcuts depicting actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and English and European visitors.
- Lomax Collection—(1934-ca. 1950) Snapshots documenting sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax for the Archive of American Folk Song, including African American and Latino musicians, singers, and dancers, primarily in the southern U.S. and the Bahamas.
- World War I Posters—(1914-1920) American, Australian, Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German, Italian, and other posters supporting the war effort.
- Works Progress Administration (WPA) Posters—(1936-1943) Posters produced by various branches of the WPA to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in 17 states and the District of Columbia.
- Van Vechten Collection: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten—(1932-1964) Includes portraits of celebrities, particularly artists, entertainers, and authors, including African Americans active in these fields.
Also available: Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection
While the content in Art Museum Image Gallery is rights-cleared for use in non-profit institutions, for-profit and commercial institutions can avail of thousands of images cleared for educational and research use by subscribing to Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection.
This invaluable resource features more than 62,500 images from the renowned collection of the Art Archive of the Picture Desk, Inc.
Search Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection on its own, or combine with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, or Biography Reference Bank for the fullest possible answers to your query.
Museums and Other Outstanding Sources Represented in Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection (pdf)
Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection License Agreement
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