ARTSTOR is an image database to which the USC Upstate Library subscribes. ARTSTOR describes its database as "...a nonprofit digital image library with more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences." You can search for images by title, creator, and keyword and can limit your search in a number of ways. If you register on ARTSTOR (which is free to the USC Upstate community) and agree to the conditions of use, you may save groups of images and download images to PowerPoint. For each image in ARTSTOR, information about the image is provided. ARTSTOR also allows the user to zoom in on the images, in order to examine them more carefully.
Two collections on ARTSTOR that include American folk, self-taught and outsider art are the American Folk Art Museum Collection and the American Art Museum Collection. You may search by Collection and choose one of these and then browse. Or, you may search ARTSTOR by the name of the artists you are interested in.
Enter the requested information including a valid email address and password (please use only letters and numbers in your password). The email address you enter will be the username for your account and a place for ARTSTOR to send your password to if you forget it.
Once you have registered for an account, you can access the ARTSTOR Digital Library remotely from any computer connected to the internet. You will need to log in to your registered user account at your subscribing institution once every 120 days to maintain your remote access to
The Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.
This tool is designed to help researchers, scholars, and educators discover the variety of resources available across the Getty's collections, which include collections in each the four programs: the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute. Users can use the tool to browse our collections broadly, by type of resource (i.e., paintings, books, archives), or to search directly for assets related to very specific subjects—historical periods, artists, object types, etc.
While users can search some of these collections individually using online search engines associated with the specific repository, Getty Search Gateway brings records from several of these databases together under one umbrella. Most of these repositories are not searchable through the Getty website's search tool, and some are only searchable here through Getty Search Gateway.
J. Paul Getty Museum Collection Database
Records for objects in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, which includes Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities; European paintings, drawings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century; medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts; and photographs from the 19th century to the present.
Getty Research Institute Research Library Catalog
Records for over one million volumes of books, periodicals, and auction catalogs, as well as substantial special collections of rare books, prints and drawings, photographs and optical devices, and archives and manuscripts. The literature of art history, the methods and materials of artistic production, and conservation are core areas of the holdings in classical antiquities, medieval and Renaissance art, sculpture and the decorative arts, prints and drawings, and photography.
Getty Research Institute Collections Inventories and Finding Aids
These records are detailed guides to the contents of selected rare and unique materials from the 15th century to the present. Find records for rare books, single prints and drawings in albums and collections, rare photographs, manuscripts and archives, optical devices, and 20th-century multiples and videos.
Getty Research Institute Digital Collections
Find selected digitized materials from the Research Institute's collection that are free to view and download. Materials include over 2.5 million digital images of rare and public domain books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, sketchbooks, and archives.
- See more at: http://search.getty.edu/gateway/about.html#sthash.mFXVA2CK.dpuf
Getty Search Gateway vs. Getty.edu Website Search
The Getty Search Gateway tool is not the same as the search tool that is available on most pages of the getty.edu website. This search box on getty.edu only searches Web pages on the Getty website, and includes just a small portion of all resources in the Getty's collections and databases.
This search box on every page of getty.edu does not search all of the records in the Getty's various repositories.
From Getty Search Gateway Home you can choose to browse resources by source of repository or type of resource. On the results page, a set of filters on the left side of the page can be used to further refine the results.
Use filters on the left of the Search Results screen to refine and browse your results.
- See more at: http://search.getty.edu/gateway/help.html#sthash.M7etBHMe.dpuf
CAMIO® — OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
CAMIO is licensed for use by students, faculty, and researchers at subscribing institutions. Works of art may be used for educational and research purposes during the term of the subscription, if they are properly credited. Images may not be published or otherwise distributed.
Just because an image is found on the internet, it doesn't mean that it is there for you to use without permission.
Although student work can often be considered Fair Use of a copyrighted work, it is good practice to always look for a statement of permissible use and/or a suggested credit line before using the image.
Can't find any? If possible, contact the copyright holder to ask permission (hey, it never hurts!), or failing that, find an alternative resource.
For more about copyright:
Art museums' online collections websites are an excellent place to find images of the artworks they own, or comparative images for other works of art you may be studying. Below are a few of the larger collections be sure to check out the Museum page for more online Museums.
