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.

Collection title Collection size* Percentage of completion
A.C. Cooper and Related Archives (Frick Art Reference Library) 10,000 90%
Josef and Anni Albers 4,000 0%
American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) Collection (University of Michigan) 12,186 100%
Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs (Cornell University Library) 1,370 100%
Architecture and Design Collection (Museum of Modern Art) 6,911 100%
Architecture in Britain Collection (Brian Davis) 1,656 0%
Architecture of Philadelphia Collection (Ralph Lieberman) 500 0%
Architecture of Venice (Sarah Quill) 600 33%
Art, Archaeology, and Architecture (Canyonlights World Art Image Bank) 4,500 13%
Art, Archaeology and Architecture (Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives) 10,000 47%
Art History Survey Collection 4,938 100%
The Art Institute of Chicago Collection 1,314 100%
ARTstor Slide Gallery 185,000 97%
Asia Society Collection 282 100%
Asian Art Collection (Connecticut College, New London) 381 0%
Asian Art Photographic Distribution (University of Michigan) 9,600 0%
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) 55,000 40%
Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (Library of Congress) 6,800 0%
Cave Temples at Ellora, India, Collection (Deepanjana Danda Klein and Arno Klein) 6,000 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 33%
The Cleveland Museum of Art Collection 6,276 100%
Community Murals Collection (Timothy Drescher) 5,200 36%
Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE Collection) 9,100 72%
Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive) 100,000 26%
Cornell Fine Arts Museum Collection (Rollins College) 60 0%
Cuban Heritage Collection (University of Miami Libraries) 1,170 100%
Dallas Museum of Art Collection 1 ,508 100%
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%
Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection (The Museum of Modern Art Archives) 18,000 19%
Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Library of Congress) 5,440 100%
Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto) 70,000 0%
Farber Gravestone Collection (American Antiquarian Society) 13,447 100%
Ferguson/Royce Archive of Pre-Columbian Photography (Art and Art History Department, The University of Texas at Austin) 5,200 0%
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Collection 15,672 100%
First Fleet Collection (Natural History Museum, London) 600 100%
Foto Reali Archive (National Gallery of Art, Department of Image Collections) 3,366 100%
Franklin Furnace Archives 450 0%
The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library Collection 490 100%
George Eastman House Collection 17,875 27%
Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings 190,000 0%
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%
Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin 9,000 0%
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 (HABS/HAER) (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%
Historic Scenic Collection (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) 25,000 59%
Italian and other European Art (Scala Archives) 13,808 88%
J. Paul Getty Museum Collection 415 100%
Library of Congress Collection 20,661 100%
Roy Lichtenstein 87 100%
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection 1,039 100%
Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (Bodleian Library, Oxford University) 25,000 43%
Mellink Archive (Bryn Mawr College) 4,000 0%
The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive 75,483 95%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection 4,755 82%
Mexican Retablos Collection (Douglas Massey) 130 0%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Faculty Artists 40 100%
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Collection 4,644 0%
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 0%
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Collection 13,083 100%
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%
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Collection (Harvard University) 90,000 0%
Elizabeth Peyton 173 100%
Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection 1,140 100%
The Phillips Collection 1,200 0%
Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College) 8,000 0%
QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture (Columbia University) 936 100%
Mark Rothko 347 12%
The Samuel H. Kress Collection 800 80%
Sansoni Archive (Frick Art Reference Library) 9,000 90%
The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection 36,004 100%
Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection 4,056 100%
Southeast Asia Visions: John M. Echols Collection (Cornell University Library) 10,070 100%
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Collection 4,499 100%
Strom Archive of the Art and Architecture of Korean Buddhist Monasteries (Carl and Jennifer Strom) 3,328 0%
Study Photographs of Tapestries in the Getty Research Library Photo Study Collection 4,879 100%
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 1,080 100%
The Walters Art Museum Collection 5,000 12%
Long and Wang Archives (School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin) 674 0%
The Warburg Institute Collection 10,000 0%
Wayne Andrews Archive (Esto) 4,200 0%
William Keighley Collection (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) 1,000 0%
Williams College Museum of Art Collection 61 100%
The Yale University Art Gallery and the Peabody Museum of Natural History 36,800 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.