Art Museum Image
Gallery
is a rich digital resource of high resolution art images, rights-cleared for
educational use.
The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of high resolution art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums, mostly in the US, but including some others.
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Nearly 100,000 high-quality images with a full description. Many include curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views for many images, and related multimedia where available. |
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Essential for programs in art history, studio art, and design. |
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You can find works and artists you know, and make unanticipated discoveries. |
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Illustrate papers, lectures, assignments, with high-resolution images. |
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Enriches research in multicultural studies, area studies, archaeology, classics, history, religion, cultural studies, literature, and related subject areas. |
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Distinguished international museum sources ensure a high level of visual quality and impressive selection of images. |
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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. |
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Superb coverage of contemporary and modern artists. |
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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. |
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Supports theater department and community theater research on set design, period costumes, and period furniture. |
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Provides unprecedented access to museum collections for research, education, and enjoyment. |
Access to this database from home is limited to Wauwatosa residents. If your card was issued by another library, you will not be able to use it. Access is available to anyone from within the Wauwatosa Public Library.
Museums contributing images to the database:
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George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY |
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Walker Art Center (August, 2005) |
Images which the Library of Congress contributed to The AMICO Library are also included in the Art Museum Image Gallery.