Contemporary Art

Artstor Digital Library is an image database with content from museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists, including Harvard collections. Artstor includes tools for teaching and learning including saved image groups, notes, flash card view, and a presentation tool. The Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) initiative provides free print-quality images for use in scholarly publications (note this only applies to images marked IAP).

HOLLIS Images is the Harvard Library's dedicated image catalog. It includes content from archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University. To date, only a portion of Harvard’s visual resources are described herein.

Bridgeman Art Library offers keyword searching and display of its collection of over 350,000 art images from more than 8,000 major international museums, galleries, auction houses, and other collections. Publication and projection quality images are available from Bridgeman Art Library for a fee.

Google has partnered with hundreds of museums, cultural institutions, and archives to host the world’s cultural treasures online. Some paintings are viewable in ‘gigapixel’ format, allowing you to zoom in at brushstroke level to examine incredible detail. However, images are not available to download.