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Select one of the portfolios below to view a collection of organized images.

  ARTstor
Large and growing database of digital images in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Includes Art History Survey collection, Carnegie Arts of the United States, the Digital Bartsch, MoMA's Digital Design Collection and others.
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  Columbia Image Bank
Over 27,000 high-quality digital images with a special emphasis on those required for teaching the history of Western Art. Included are images from many of the world’s major collections including the Louvre, Musée D’Orsay, Uffizi Palace, and the Prado as well as many important archaeological sites including Ephesus, Pergamum and Mycenae. The images are licensed chiefly from Saskia, Ltd., and are subject to certain use restrictions. (Displayed using the Luna Insight® system.)
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  American Memory from the Library of Congress
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  Mnemosyne
The Mnemosyne: Visual Culture Database houses more than 45,000 images of the fine arts, architecture, and archaeology with a wide selection of both Western and Non-Western subjects. We named the database Mnemosyne (pronunciation), the daughter of Uranus and Gaea, the personification of Memory, and, most importantly, the mother of the nine Muses, patron goddesses of the arts. The scope of the database reflects the curricula of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Barnard College. This database is no longer updated with new images.
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Online Reference Resource: Images

up   Artchive
     
  Artcyclopedia
     
  Central Pacific Railroad Photography History Museum
     
  Early American Paintings at the Worcester Museum
     
  Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture collection database, at the New-York Historical Society
     
  Index of Links to Museums in the USA (search by collection)
     
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Wing
     
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
     
  National Gallery of Art American Paintings Collection
     
  Smithsonian American Art Museum: Collections & Indexes of American Painting and Sculpture
     

Movie Clips

   
  Panorama of the Flatiron Building [ 11.9 MB ]
     
  Herald Square [ 2.8 MB ]
     
 

Skyscrapers of New York City [ 34.7 MB ]

Portfolios

SECTION I: NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS   SECTION V: THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF AMERICA
SECTION II: COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS   SECTION VI: MODERNITY AND MODERN ART
SECTION III: VISUAL CULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC   SECTION VII: HARLEM RENAISSANCE
SECTION IV:

EXPANSION AND DISINTEGRATION

SECTION VIII: ART BETWEEN THE WARS


SECTION I: NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS

  Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo)
     
  Mimbres Culture
     
  Pueblo Pottery
     
  Pueblo Cultures
     
  Pueblo Indian Painting
     
  Navajo Textiles
     
  Navajo Architecture
     
  Southwest and California Baskets
     
  Heraldic Painting and Ledger Drawing
     
  Plains Regalia
     
  Painting Traditions of Plains Women
     
  Plains Material Culture-- Beadwork and Carving
     
  Métis Culture
     
  Oscar Howe
     
  Joe Herrera
     
  Pablita Velarde
     
  Maria Martinez
     
  Nampeyo
     
  Pop Chalee
     
  Allan Houser
     
  Gerald Nailor
     
  Rebecca Belmore
     
  Carl Beam
     
  Kay Walkingstick
     
  Gerald McMaster
     
  George Morrison
     
  Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith
     
  Fritz Scholder
     
  Kiowa Five
     
  James Luna
     
  Jolene Rickard
     
  Edgar Heap of Birds
     
  Robert Houle
     
  Carm Little-Turtle
     
  T. C. Cannon
     
  Jimmie Durham
     
  Jesse Cooday
     
  Skeet McAuley
     
  Hulleah Tsihnahjinnie
     
  Richard Ray Whitman
     
  George Longfish
     
  Arthur Amiotte
     
  Bob Haozous
     

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SECTION II: COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

  Miguel Cabrera
     
  John Singleton Copley
     
  Benjamin West
     
  John White
     
  Early Representations of the Americas and Americans
     
  Spanish Colonial Portraits
     
  Spanish Colonial Religious Art
     
  Anglo-American Colonial Portraits
     
  Anglo-American Textiles
     
  Anglo-American (other)
     
  Mount Airy Plantation
     

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SECTION III: VISUAL CULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC

  Frederick Catherwood
     
  George Catlin
     
  Thomas Cole
     
  Nathaniel Jocelyn
     
  Edward Hicks
     
  William Sidney Mount
     
  Charles Willson Peale
     
  Hiram Powers
     
  Robert Street
     
  John Trumbull and Revolutionary History Painting
     
  Material Culture of Slavery
     
  U.S. Capitol
     
  Panoramas
     
  Surveys and Natural History
     
  Picturing George Washington
     
  Nartive American—Woodlands Souvenirs
     

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SECTION IV: EXPANSION AND DISINTEGRATION

  Thomas Ball
     
  Albert Bierstadt
     
  George Caleb Bingham
     
  Mathew Brady and Civi War Photography
     
  Frederick Edwin Church
     
  Currier and Ives
     
  Robert S. Duncanson
     
  Alexander Gardner
     
  Martin Johnson Heade
     
  Harriet Hosmer
     
  Emanuel Leutze
     
  Edmonia Lewis
     
  Thomas Moran
     
  Charles Christian Nahl
     
  Thomas S. Noble
     
  Harriet Powers
     
  John Rogers
    see also: "Figural Groups of John Rogers" site at the New-York Historical Society
     
  Lilly Martin Spencer
     
  Elihu Vedder
     
  Carelton Watkins
     
  Richard Caton Woodville
     
  Landscapes after Cole
     
  Images of Niagara Falls
     

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SECTION V: THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF AMERICA

  Mary Cassatt
     
  Thomas Eakins
     
  John Haberle
     
  William Harnett
     
  Lewis Hine
     
  Winslow Homer
     
  William Henry Jackson
     
  Eastman Johnson
     
  Timothy O’Sullivan
     
  John Peto
     
  Jacob Riis
     
  Augustus Saint Gaudens
     
  John Singer Sargent
     
  Henry Ossawa Tanner
     
  James Abbott MacNeill Whistler
     
  Postbellum Genre Painting
     
  Centennial Exhibition
     
  Candace Wheeler
     
  American Cities
     
  Survey Photography
     
  Vernacular Photography
     

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SECTION VI: MODERNITY AND MODERN ART

  American Impressionism, Tonalism, and Aestheticism
     
  William Merritt Chase
     
  Gertrude Kasebier
     
  Frederic Remington and the Wild West
     
  John Sloan
     
  George Bellows
     
  Alfred Stieglitz
     
  Stieglitz Circle
     
  Armory Show
     

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SECTION VII: HARLEM RENAISSANCE

  Harlem Renaissance Miscellaneous
     
  Richmond Barthe and Richard Bruce Nugent
     
  Romare Bearden
     
  Beauford Delaney
     
  Aaron Douglas
     
  Palmer Hayden
     
  Malvin Gray Johnson
     
  Sargent Johnson
     
  Anna Russell Jones
     
  Lois Mailou Jones
     
  Norman Lewis
     
  Archibald Motley
     
  Horace Pippin
     
  Winold Reiss
     
  Richard S. Roberts
     
  Doris Ulmann
     
  James VanDerZee
     
  Carl Van Vechten
     
  Charles White
     
  Hale Woodruff
     
  Women Sculptors of the New Negro Renaissance
     

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SECTION VIII: ART BETWEEN THE WARS

  Thomas Hart Benton
     
  Walker Evans
     
  Dorothea Lange
     
  Jacob Lawrence
     
  Russell Lee
     
  Diego Rivera and Mexican Muralism
     
  Arthur Rothstein
     


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