Research Guides: ENG 185 Writing & Inquiry in the Liberal Arts: Finding Images

Images

ARTstor

Curated collections of digital images and associated data for non-commercial, scholarly, non-profit, and educational use. Over 1 million images.
A&AePortal
The A&AePortal provides an digital environment in which to discover and interact with important art and architectural history scholarship. The database includes both books that are difficult to access in print and new releases and born-digital publications (i.e.,digital only) made available as eBooks exclusively on the A&AePortal

The Noun Project
The Noun Project has collections of images and icons. Many are free to use with attribution.
Pexels
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages.
Unsplash
Unsplash grants its users an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service.
Pixabay
Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos.
Google Art Project
Google Art Project is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative's partner museums.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and among the most visited art museums in the world.
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has an extraordinary collection of modern and contemporary art.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is the fourth largest museum in the United States. It contains more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas.
Smithsonian
Founded in 1846, the Smithsonian is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park, and nine research facilities.
J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and photography from its beginnings to the present, gathered internationally.
Harvard Art Museums
Three museums with a global collection of objects in all media from antiquity to the present.

HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
New York Public Library
Explore 687,035 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.
Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs online catalog.

You can utilize search engines that allow filtering by license, including:

CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.

Many Flickr users have licensed their work under creative commons.

• Crowdsourced collection of Creative Commons media files.

• For Google, scroll down to the last option, "usage rights", and choose the license that best suits your project.