Collections

Descriptions & status

ARTstor collections are comprised of contributions from museums, individual photographers, scholars, special collections at libraries, and photo archives. We announce contribution agreements and collection releases regularly and are providing the following information to keep you informed of the progress of our efforts to continually build and improve the depth and breadth of ARTstor collections. Full collection descriptions are also available linked from each collection title.

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Collection title Collection size* Percentage of completion
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation 2,100 100%
American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) Collection (University of Michigan) 12,186 100%
American Institute of Indian Studies 60,000 20%
Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs (Cornell University Library) 1,370 100%
Wayne Andrews: Architecture (Esto) 4,211 100%
Architecture and Design Collection
(Museum of Modern Art)
6,911 100%
Architecture of Venice (Sarah Quill) 1,000 80%
Art, Archaeology, and Architecture
(Canyonlights World Art Image Bank)
4,500 88%
Art, Archaeology and Architecture
(Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives)
13,000 71%
Art History Survey Collection 4,938 100%
The Art Institute of Chicago Collection 1,313 100%
ARTstor Slide Gallery 190,851 100%
Asia Society Collection 282 100%
Asian Art Collection (Connecticut College) 420 100%
Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD)
(University of Michigan)
9,600 50%
Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South Asia (Cornell University Library) 6,673 0%
Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin) 5,722 100%
Carnegie Arts of the United States 4,164 100%
Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University) 44,337 100%
Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South
(Library of Congress)
6,800 0%
Cave Temples at Ellora, India
(Deepanjana Danda Klein and Arno Klein)
6,000 19%
Madeline Caviness: Medieval Stained Glass 1,400 0%
Century Magazine Illustrations of the American Civil War (Minneapolis College of Art and Design) 106 100%
Charles Moore Archive 50,000 0%
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros 300 0%
Clarence Ward Archive
(National Gallery of Art, Department of Image Collections)
3,901 100%
Classical Antiquity Lantern Slide Collection
(Bryn Mawr College)
325 100%
Classical Sculptures (Berlin State Museums) 900 47%
The Cleveland Museum of Art Collection 6,242 100%
James Conlon:
Mali and Yemen Sites and Architecture
871 100%
Community Murals (Timothy Drescher) 5,598 100%
Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE Collection) 9,631 100%
Contemporary Art (Franklin Furnace Archives) 5,500 12%
Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive) 100,000 65%
Cornell Fine Arts Museum Collection (Rollins College) 61 100%
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain 18,000 0%
Cuban Heritage Collection (University of Miami Libraries) 1,170 100%
Dallas Museum of Art Collection 1 ,508 100%
Brian Davis: Architecture in Britain 1,656 100%
Davis Museum and Cultural Center Collection
(Wellesley College)
518 100%
Detroit Institute of Arts Collection 1,592 100%
Egyptian and other Ancient Art (Arielle Kozloff Brodkey) 2,444 100%
European Architecture and Sculpture (Sara N. James) 614 100%
Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection
(The Museum of Modern Art Archives)
16,705 100%
Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Library of Congress) 5,440 100%
Farber Gravestone Collection
(American Antiquarian Society)
13,447 100%
Ferguson-Royce: Pre-Columbian Photography (University of Texas at Austin) 4,199 100%
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Collection 15,669 100%
First Fleet Collection (Natural History Museum, London) 600 100%
Foto Reali Archive
(National Gallery of Art, Department of Image Collections)
3,366 100%
Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchives 24,881 76%
The Frick Collection 490 100%
Dov Friedman: American and European Architecture 1,500 0%
Gazette du Bon Ton
(Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
100 0%
George Eastman House Collection 17,875 27%
Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings 189,000 4%
Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise Collection 855 100%
Giza Archaeological Expedition Archive (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) 22,206 100%
Graphic Design Collection (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art) 1,350 100%
Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts 16,000 99%
Hill Ornithology Collection (Cornell University Library) 265 100%
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress) 200,000 0%
Historic American Sheet Music Covers
(Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
29 100%
Historic Campus Architecture Project
(Council of Independent Colleges)
4,045 100%
Historic Illustrations of Art & Architecture
(Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
301 100%
Historical Scenic Design (Alexander Adducci) 2,849 100%
Huntington Archive of Asian Art 10,774 100%
Illuminated Manuscipt Collection
(Princeton University Library)
3,299 100%
The Illustrated Bartsch 51,525 100%
Image of the Black in Western Art (Harvard University) 30,000 24%
Indianapolis Museum of Art Collection 123 100%
Islamic Art and Architecture Collection
(Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom, Walter Denny)
18,743 100%
Italian and other European Art (Scala Archives) 13,808 96%
J. Paul Getty Museum Collection 415 100%
William Keighley
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
5,500 0%
Library of Congress Collection 20,661 100%
Roy Lichtenstein 812 100%
Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography 1,000 64%
Rob Linrothe: Tibetan and Buddhist Art (Skidmore College) 10,000 0%
Christopher Long: Central European Architecture (University of Texas at Austin) 215 100%
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection 1,039 100%
Magnum Photos 80,000 92%
Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
(Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
24,514 100%
Eugene James Martin 200 100%
Mellink Archive (Bryn Mawr College) 3,912 100%
The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive 75,483 95%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection 7,679 100%
Mexican Retablos (Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey) 170 100%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Collection 452 100%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Faculty Artists 40 100%
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Collection 4,644 100%
Modern Latin American Art (Jacqueline Barnitz, Art and Art History Department, The University of Texas at Austin) 4,696 100%
Moreen O'Brien Maser Memorial Collection
(Skidmore College)
790 100%
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Collection 13,083 100%
National Gallery of Art 686 0%
Native American Art and Culture
(National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution)
11,900 100%
The Natural History Drawings of the Endeavour Voyage, 1768-1771 (Natural History Museum, London) 959 100%
New Museum of Contemporary Art Collection 6,212 100%
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 1,200 0%
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University) 154,000 0%
Elizabeth Peyton 173 100%
Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection 5,046 62%
The Phillips Collection 1,140 100%
Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College) 8,000 35%
QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture
(Columbia University)
1,480 86%
Ralph Lieberman Archive (Harvard University) 3,500 0%
Rescue Public Murals (Heritage Preservation) 300 0%
Mark Rothko 347 24%
Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography 4,000 0%
The Samuel H. Kress Collection 800 80%
Seattle Art Museum 2,500 0%
The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection 36,003 100%
Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art 800 25%
Sites and Photos 90,000 0%
Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection 4,055 100%
South Asian and Cuban Art and Architecture (Alka Patel) 14,000 0%
Southeast Asia Visions: John M. Echols Collection
(Cornell University Library)
10,070 100%
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Collection 4,566 100%
Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto) 26,000 29%
Carl Strom and Jennifer Strom:
Korean Buddhist Monasteries
3,249 100%
Study Photographs of Tapestries in the Getty Research Library Photo Study Collection 4,879 100%
Terra Foundation for American Art Collection 704 100%
Tenniel Civil War Cartoon Collection
(Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
53 100%
Vesalius Anatomical Illustrations
(Northwestern University)
253 100%
Victoria and Albert Museum Collection 1,079 100%
David Wade: Pattern in Islamic Art 1,500 100%
The Walters Art Museum 5,000 12%
Wilfried Wang: Modern Architecture (University of Texas at Austin) 460 0%
The Warburg Institute 10,000 13%
Williams College Museum of Art Collection 61 100%
World War I and II Posters and Postcards
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
5,737 100%
The Yale University Art Gallery and the Peabody Museum of Natural History 36,800 0%
Yao Ceremonial Artifacts (Ohio University) 3,500 0%
Fondazione Federico Zeri (Università di Bologna) 25,900 0%

* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor's approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.