• Art Institute of Chicago - http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.php
  Highlights from the extraordinary collection of this well respected museum are available online.
• Digital Librarian: Art Images - http://www.digital-librarian.com/art.html
  This seems to be a rather old-fashioned set of links, but it is well organized and informative. It lets you know which museums have the most online images.
• The Getty Center - http://www.getty.edu
  Online site of the Getty Museum in California.
• Guggenheim Museum - http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml
  Excellent online collection of modern art.
• Guggenheim Collection Africa: the Art of a Continent -http://artnet.web/guggenheim/africa/index.html
  Extradordinary collection of African Art
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org
  The Web site of the fabulous museum in New York.
• Museum of Modern Art - http://www.moma.org/
  Browse and search the extensive permanent collection. The site also includes information current exhibitions.
• National Gallery of Art - http://www.nga.gov
  Web site of the fabulous museum in Washington D.C.
• National Gallery, London - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
  Web site of the largest art museum in Britain. Most of the collection is online.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art - http://www.philamuseum.org/
  A substantial proportion of this museum's excellent collection can be searched online.
• Prints and Photographs Online Catalog - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/poshtml/posabt.html
  From the Library of Congress. Here you can view images of 2,000 posters selected for artistic merit. Posters date from the 1840's to the present.
• Tate Gallery - http://www.tate.org.uk/
  This excellent museum is known for its collections of British and modern art.
• Turning the Pages: the British Library - http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
  This fabulous site from The British Library allows you to electronically turn the pages of a variety of beautiful old and rare books, including Leonardo's sketch book.
• The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery - http://www.vangoghgallery.com/
  An impressive amount of material by and about Van Gogh, approved by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
• Virtual Library Museums Pages - http://icom.museum/vlmp/
  Exhaustive list of museums around the world. Includes all types of museums, not just art museum.
• Webmuseum, Paris - http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
  An online guide to works by significant artists.

Virtual Collections

• Art Images for College Teaching - http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/
  Online images dating from ancient times to the present. Heavy emphasis on architecture and sculpture.
• Artcyclopedia - http://www.artcyclopedia.com
  Offers links to works by more than 6,000 artists.
• Artsource - http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html
  Includes an excellent directory of museums with online collections.
• Ditto - http://www.ditto.com
  Ditto is a visual search engine. Be sure to scroll past the advertising.
• Finding Images on the Web - http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/index.html
  A guide from Boston University to help find paintings, sculptures, clip art, maps etc.
• Large Collections of Images - http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/images.html
  A list of the larger collections of artwork on the Web.
• Looking for Good Art - http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep04/mattison.shtml
  An exhaustive guide to finding art on the Web.
• Magazine Art - http://magazineart.org/
  Collection of online images of magazine illustrations by such artists as Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth etc.
• Maryland Arts Source - http://www.marylandartsource.org
  Guide to art resources in Maryland as well as the District.
• Prints and Photographs Online Catalog - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/poshtml/posabt.html
  From the Library of Congress. Here you can view images of 2,000 posters selected for artistic merit. Posters date from the 1840's to the present.

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