Find Art & Design Images

OpenGLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum) provides an easy way to search openly licensed content either in the public domain or via creative commons from several cultural institutions. All collections provide digital scans or photos that can be freely used without any restrictions.

A tutorial offering tools and tips to aid in the discovery and use of images found on the Web.

Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.

Intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large.

illustrations of black people in multiple formats for your next digital project. Free for commercial use.

Access to search engines that allow Creative Commons searches.

A photo sharing site. Search member created tags or search the Flickr Creative Commons pool at www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Exchange for using and contributing free stock photography.

Free stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use - advertising revenue supported.

Contains a portion of the more than 1.5 million printed books and manuscripts in the collections of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

Open-source package of 750 icons targeted for designers and developers for use in mobile apps and interactive projects.

Flickr archive with over 2.6 million + public domain images from books, magazines, and newspapers published over the last 500 years. Images and captions harvested from Google Book project.

"Include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings" primarily on American history.

Luna Commons is a database of sixteen free digital image collections. There are over 100,000 images all available for download in good resolution. Featured collections include: Pratt Institute Fashion Plate Collection, The Farber Gravestones Collection, Maps of Africa, Cornell Political Americana Collection, and the The Estate Collection of Art by HIV+ artists.

A repository of over 42,000 open access digital images from the collections of the National Gallery of Art.

Graphic symbols and photos created by contributors from around the world. Symbols and photos are freely available for use under public domain or CCBY license (with attribution), or without attribution for a small fee.

New York Public Library's searchable database of 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from its collections. Also browsable by names and subjects.

A freely-accessible site for searching freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.

Article illustrations provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license. This means that anyone, anywhere can use the images created for opensource.com as long as they give us credit and keep it licensed under Creative Commons.

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are tagged, searchable and also easy to discover.

A repository of public domain pictures including free vectors, drawings and photos. You can use any Pixabay image without attribution in digital and printed form, even for commercial applications.

Royalty free stock photography from $1.

A free tool that helps bloggers and designers find beautiful photos with Creative Commons licensing.

65,000+ vector images in the public domain.

Find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are released under Creative Commons CC0 into the public domain.

Public Domain Vintage Design Resources with a CC0 License • Photos and Graphic Illustrations.

A free, open-access library of images. Search and browse collections with tools to zoom, print, export, and share images.

Free photographs that designers and students can share and use for their personal and non-commercial design work.

Over 300,000 free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

100,000 images free for use in education.

Free illustrations to customize, animate and download to make landing pages, apps or presentations.

Provides images at no cost to scholars via ARTstor's existing infrastructure, through the Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) program.

The free digital image service is managed by usage rather than user. The British Museum offers non-exclusive licenses to use the selected material free of charge.

Free high resolution image download is determined by usage rather than user. A non-exclusive license is granted to use the selected material free of charge.

The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. It includes paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, jewelry and more.

Through NGA Images, the National Gallery of Art implements an open access policy for digital images of works of art that the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are now available free of charge for any use, commercial or non-commercial.

Images of objects from the Walters' collections are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

Provides license- and royalty free access to digital images of public domain materials in all Yale collections. Open Access materials may be used by anyone for any purpose. This is not restricted to scholarly uses only.

Thousands of images from the Frick Collection, known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts. Free for Personal Use in Education, Teaching, Academic Study and Research.

LACMA's collection includes objects dating from antiquity to the present, especially Asian, Latin American and Islamic art. Content on the Site marked “Public Domain High Resolution Image Available” is available for free, unrestricted Use.

The national museum of the Netherlands, "the Rijksmuseum offers a representative overview of Dutch art and history from the Middle Ages onwards, and of major aspects of European and Asian art." Images from the website in the public domain are available for download and creative reuse with a Rijksstudio account

70,000 high-resolution images of Chinese artifacts and artworks ranging from paintings to antiquities.

Find images by conducting a search and then limiting your results to "Open Content Images". All images found through this program should be credited as "Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program" (see http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html).

Thousands of images of works in every medium from all cultures and historical periods. Many are available with a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license -filter by Show Only=Public Domain.

Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s 2D and 3D digital images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.