Images of Contemporary Artist's Work

Images of Contemporary Artist's Work: Databases

The best source for images of an artist's work are exhibition catalogs. See Artist's Exhibition Catalogs and Books.

 The Art Museum Image Gallery is an image database subscription of the UNT Libraries.  It is composed of over 78,000 high-quality images of art works owned by U.S. and Canadian museums. AMIG images include fine and decorative art created from 3000 B.C. to the present, from African, Asian, European, and the North and South American cultures. Images include curatorial text, provenance data, related multimedia information and various sized views of the art works. All AMIG images are copyright cleared for educational use. The images can be used by professors to prepare lectures for classroom use and students can use the images in assignments.

*Search the artists name in the order of last name, first name. Example:  Rauschenberg, Robert.

*If accessing from off-campus, you will asked for a user name and password.  The username is your EUID and the password is the Eagle Mail password.

Images of Contemporary Artist's Work: Internet

This search will find images within web pages on your topic.  You will often find the artist's homepage and which musuems and galleries have their works. Search the name of your artist (first name, last name) when searching Google. Example: Kiki Smith, Bill Viola, Ross Bleckner.

Search the name of your artist in the same manner described in the Google Image search above.  Altavista allows you to narrow the search to image type (photos, graphics, color or black & white).

Askart.com
Askart.com is a directory of contemporary American artists.  Some of the information included on this site includes: gallery holdings and representation, bios, and the record price for work sold at auction.  Much information is free, but if you go too far into the image links, you will be asked for a username and password.