Doing a lot of videoconferencing? Now your classmates, coworkers, and families don’t have to peek into your messy living room or rumpled bedroom, thanks to our artistic backgrounds from the Creative Commons images in the open image collections on JSTOR.
Download your favorite image to use as a background on Zoom.* Callers will see you where you want to be: in vibrant Van Gogh landscapes, at a palace in 18th-century Japan, or amidst strange creatures in the bottom of the ocean. Just remember that they can still see if you’re wearing pajamas.
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Vincent van Gogh. Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889
Vincent van Gogh. Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
Pradyumna and Maya Fly to Dwarka, c. 1760-1765
India. Pradyumna and Maya Fly to Dwarka: Leaf from the Large Basohli Bhagavata Purana, c. 1760-1765.
From Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
John Singer Sargent. Switzerland sketchbook, 1869
John Singer Sargent. Switzerland sketchbook, 1869.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
James M. Sommerville, Christian Schussele. Ocean Life, 19th c.
James M. Sommerville, Christian Schussele. Ocean Life, 19th c.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
Claude Monet. Landscape: The Parc Monceau, 1876
Claude Monet. Landscape: The Parc Monceau, 1876.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
Suzuki Kiitsu. Morning Glories, early 19th c.
Suzuki Kiitsu. Morning Glories, early 19th c.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
Constantin Alexandrovitch Westchiloff. Maine Seascape, 1930-45
Constantin Alexandrovitch Westchiloff. Maine Seascape, 1930-45.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
Anonymous Chinese artist. A large palace garden, ca. 1850
Anonymous Chinese artist. A large palace garden, possibly Versailles, ca. 1850.
From Open: Wellcome Collection. Credit: Wellcome Collection.
Creative Commons BY 4.0
After Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Design for The Magic Flute, 1847-49
After Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6, 1847-49.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
Dining room from Kirtlington Park, 1748
Designer: John Sanderson; maker: chimneypiece possibly by Sir Henry Cheere and plasterwork attributed to Thomas Roberts. Dining room from Kirtlington Park, 1748.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
François Diday. Interior Passage in the Colosseum, 1825
François Diday. Interior Passage in the Colosseum, 1825.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
Suzuki Harunobu. Woman Dancer in Daimyo’s Palace, 18th c.
Suzuki Harunobu. Woman Dancer in Daimyo’s Palace, Edo period.
From Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)
*Please note that the availability of open images as Zoom virtual backgrounds is not intended by ITHAKA as an endorsement of Zoom.