FInding Images of Works of Art
Through the library, you have access to online collections that provide photos from various gallery, archives and museum collections.
These online collections provide:
- high-quality digitized images, zoom in to see brushstrokes, stitches, and textures.
- artwork metadata including information about location, medium, and dimensions.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window
The ARTstor Digital Library is a collection of digital images of art, architecture and design from a number of books (notably art history survey texts), museums, archives, and slide collections.
- Canadian Art Database
Also known as: |Internet Archive of Canadian Professional Artists|
Contains images by Canadian artists - Art and Architecture in VideoThis collection has documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms. This includes fine arts, construction, artists, architecture, techniques, museums, sculpture, photography, exhibitions and criticisms.
- Oxford Art Online
Also known as: Grove Dictionary of Art| Grove Art Online| This database contains articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the present day. There are peer-reviewed articles with supporting materials including bibliographies, media, and links to related resources. The search engine has options to refine by source, type, subject, and availability.
- Visual Arts Data Service Contains images of product design, graphic design, fashion, and art.
- LunaA source for finding images in digital collections using the Luna platform.
Exhibition Catalogues
Exhibition catalogues can be among the best places to find images of an artist's work.
To search exhibition catalogues, use the search box on the library homepage.
Include the name of the artist, plus words such as "exhibitions" and "exhibition catalogues".
If we don't have the catalogue you need, recommend a purchase, and/or place an interlibrary loan.