Visual and Theatre Arts

This digital collection contains selected Academy Awards photographs, and related materials from the library's collection as well as full text of selected Academy publications.

Offers over 350,000 high quality images with comprehensive descriptive data. Images are downloadable and cover architecture, landscape, woodblock prints, political Americana and more.

Offers digitized items from the Research Library, Special Collections, Photo Archive, and Institutional Archives and range from the 15th century to the present. Items include books, photographs, manuscripts, archives, and works on paper. Therre is also free access to BHA via the Getty site.

"The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection."

Provides images of works exhibited in the museum and information about them.

Online collections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art include: American Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Arms and Armor, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Asian Art, The Cloisters, The Costume Institute, Drawings and Prints, Egyptian Art, European Paintings, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Greek and Roman Art, Islamic Art, The Robert Lehman Collection, Medieval Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, Musical Instruments, and Photographs.

The National Gallery of Art collection includes Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper, Photographs, Decorative Arts, and Architecture.

Provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Search over 7.7 million catalog records with 568,100 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

Offers over 73,000 images of medium quality that are downloadable Searchable by style or ism, medium, subject, and artist.

Tumblr hosts over 109 blogs including those of museums, galleries, and artists. It's great for following emergent artists who may be less likely to have a published monograph. You can find local artists here. No standardization of image quality. Free mobile app available.