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Image Database Resources

Art majors use digital images as a major part of their artistic and academic studies. One of the joys of the World Wide Web is the ease with which many of these digital images can be found and used by any one with a connection to the web. Western Illinois University has a Permanent Collection of art that is comprised of over 1,200 objects of art in a variety of two and three-dimensional media, including contemporary prints and drawings, "Old Master" prints, painting, photography, sculpture, and ceramics. Major areas of research and collection are WPA paintings and prints,"old master" prints and contemporary graphics, including prints and drawings and works on paper. Many of these works can be viewed through the foollowing link.

On the occasions when a wider range of images of world art are needed, Western Illinois University subscribes to the ARTstor Digital Image Database. Other web links are listed below, and may require passwords or subscriptions. ARTstor is our major image database in that it makes available more than 1.4 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from outstanding museums, photo archives, photographers, scholars, and artists.

Below are links to some of the most reputable Image Databases on the web.