Art, Visual: Find Images, Video, & Web Sites

Images that you can use for free under Creative Commons licenses. The search page explains the Creative Commons system.

The Met makes freely available images of works the Museum believes to be in the public domain, or those to which the Museum waives any copyright it might have, under a Creative Commons Zero license.

Images from the National Gallery of Art. Open access policy for digital images of works of art that the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available free of charge for any use, commercial or non-commercial. See Policy Details for specific instructions and notes for users.

Browse or search more than 7,000 advertisements that appeared in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines from 1911 through 1955. The Timeline feature provides historical context for advertisements.
The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching and private study.

A great guide to art sites on the Web. You can search or browse by movement, medium, subject, nation, artist name, or women artists.

Search or browse by category more than 9,000 advertisements. The Timeline feature provides historical context for ads. The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching and private study.

Biographical information, images of paintings, bibliography of Kahlo.

Click Chronologies to see regions and time periods. You can click a time period to expand it and follow it to see a more detailed chronology illustrated with art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

Provides a tour of the National Gallery including images. Searchable by artist or title.

The collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum can be searched by a variety of criteria. Search results produce a small review image with accompanying identification (title, artist, size, medium, and collection information). Larger, high-resolution images can be called from the review images. Only a portion of the museum's holdings are available online. The site also includes databases and e-mail reference help on American art.

A engaging collection of more than 1000 streaming videos about Applied Art, Architecture, Art Appreciation, Art History and Photography.