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One of the best resources is Artstor, a great starting point for artworks, but there are some additional image sources you may find helpful that are listed below.
ARTIC login required for many resources on this list.
Artstor is on the JSTOR platform effective 8/1/24. Digital image gallery with millions of images of works of art from museums, galleries, and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago. Artstor also includes AIC Collections, images curated by the Flaxman Library specifically for use in teaching and research at SAIC. Click here for tips on how to use Workspace for organizing images.
Images curated by the Flaxman Library specifically for use in teaching and research at SAIC includes the Art & Art History Visual Resources Collection, SAIC History Collections and images from the Roger Brown Study Collection.
The Art Institute's permanent collection. Includes images, basic information and often the publication history about works of art representing all areas of the collection.
A large public collection of contemporary art documentation from 80+ galleries and museums including hundreds of thousands of artists with more than 775,000 images, documents, and videos representing more than 21,000 exhibitions, performances, and other projects. CAL also produces Contemporary Art Daily.
Online institutional repository created and managed by the John M. Flaxman Library. Presents curated selections of historic publications, archival materials, student theses, and artists’ works drawn from our library shelves or from other campus special collections. They are offered here for educational and research purposes. Not all content available to be read online.
Browseable and searchable content from the American fashion magazine Vogue, including covers. 1892 to the present.
For a full list of the best free websites for images go to our Open Access Images subpage listed in the left column.