Art Research Sites

Wellesley Documentation on Using ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital web resource that contains more than 300,000 images of world art, architecture, design, photographs, and other forms of visual culture. Images are drawn from sources such as museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers.The database continues to be updated, and 200,000 more images are to be added before 2006.
ARTstor allows users to zoom in on images, view two images side-by-side for comparison purposes, save groups of images online, add personal notes, and create presentations. Please read the documentation on how to use ARTstor on-campus and off-campus.

PhotoMuse.org
The Photomuse collection provides a sample of the photographic archives of the International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves.

Getty Images Editorial - Archival
Search over 600,000 images in our truly global archival offering of defining moments and personalities -- from the 19th century to the present. Other Getty Images Categories

Smithsonian Images
Images from current exhibits, Smithsonian events and historic collections.

Harvard University Library Visual Information Access
The Visual Information Access (VIA) system is a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard, focusing on artistic and cultural materials.