Library: Art Resources: Museums, Galleries, and Image Collections

Online Exhibits and Image Collections

Closer to Van Eyck
A project of the Getty Foundation, this website is devoted to Van Eyck's Ghent Alterpiece.
Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books
A rich, diverse collection of artist-made books from the early 20th century to today.
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Digital collection of more than 480,000 works from the Louvre Museum and the Eugène-Delacroix National Museum.
British Museum
The online collection has many high definition images that can be enlarged and examined in detail.
The Art Institute of Chicago
Over 50,000 images of works in the Art Institute's collection are believed to be in the public domain, and can be accessed and used under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Getty features pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, decorative arts, and photographs from the inception of photography through present day from all over the world
Tate Modern
An extensive and high-quality collection of images from a network of four art galleries in London, including British art from 1500 to the present day, and international modern and contemporary art.
RKD Images (Netherlands Institute for Art History)
195,000 images of Dutch and Flemish works of art from the 14th through the late 19th centuries.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs online
A collection of roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, and other documentation that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America.
NYPL Digital Gallery
Access to over 360,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

National Art Museums

Metropolitan Museum of Art
The MET, as it is known, is the largest art museum in the United States. It holds more than more than two million works of art.
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago is an internationally renowned institution, comprising a premier collection of art objects from around the globe, a top-ranked art school and library, and a diverse array of temporary exhibitions and public programs.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Mia is one of the largest art museums in the United States. Its permanent collection includes world-famous works that embody the highest levels of artistic achievement, spanning about 20,000 years and representing the world’s diverse cultures across six continents.
Museum of Modern Art
MOMA is an art museum located in midtown Manhattan in New York City that is devoted to collecting modernist art, and is often considered one of the most influential museums of modern art in the world.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim houses an impressive collection of modern masterpieces and contemporary art, in an inverted-ziggurat shape building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Walker Art Center
A multidisciplinary contemporary art center, and one of the most-visited modern art museums in the nation.
National Portrait Gallery
Located in Washington D.C., the National Portrait Gallery has a collection that focuses on images of famous Americans.
Cooper Hewitt
The Smithsonian Design Museum is located in Manhattan's Upper-East Side. It is the only museum in the United States devoted to historical and contemporary design. Its collections and exhibitions explore approximately 240 years of design aesthetic and creativity.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
The nation’s first collection of American art, it is home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal key aspects of America’s rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today.
Design Museum of Chicago
The Design Museum defines design broadly, encompassing graphic design, architecture, urban planning, interior design, systems thinking, and more.

Wisconsin Art Museums

Chazen Museum of Art
The Chazen has the second-largest collection of art in Wisconsin, spanning from ancient Greece, Western Europe and the Soviet Empire to Moghul India, 18th-century Japan and modern Africa.
Edgewood College Gallery
This is Edgewood College's art gallery in the Stream Art Building
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is a nonprofit, independent organization that exists to exhibit, collect, preserve, and interpret modern and contemporary art.
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee Art Museum's collection contains more than 30,000 works of art, ranging from antiquity to the present. It also holds one of the largest collections of works by Wisconsin native Georgia O’Keeffe.
Museum of Wisconsin Art
Located in West Bend, WI, MOWA is one of the top museums of regional art in the United States, with over 5,000 works of contemporary and historic art by more than 350 artists.
Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
Hamilton Museum in Twin Rivers WI is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. It also has an impressive collection of engravings, prints, and printing equipment.

Outsider Art in Wisconsin

Dr. Evermore
Wisconsin’s preeminent outsider artist, Dr. Evermor, AKA Tom Every, now has his own website.
Roadside art online: Wisconsin
An overview of some of the more well known outsider art installations.
Anthony Petullo collection of self-taught and outsider art
A website devoted to Milwaukee art collector Anthony Petullo and his outsider art collection.
Dreamtime Village
An artist colony located in West Lima, Wisconsin, about 90 miles from Madison.
Fred Smith's concrete park
Wisconsin "auteur of concrete" Fred Smith created his concrete park, now conserved by the Kohler Foundation.
Kohler Foundation's Wisconsin outsider art page
Site devoted to the Kohler Foundation's works in outsider art preservation.

Art Resources: Museums, Galleries, and Image Collections

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