Artstor

Description: 

The collection currently contains over two million images, including the following collections (see "More info"):

  • The Art History Survey Collection
  • The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection
  • The Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts
  • The Huntington Archive of Asian Art
  • The Illustrated Bartsch (Old Master European prints from the 15th to the 19th centuries)
  • The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (images of wall paintings and sculpture from Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang , China )
  • The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection 
  • Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. ARTstor's definition of art is encompassing. It includes architecture, painting, photography, prints, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. ARTstor also provides software tools to enable active use of the images. The tools support a wide range of uses including analyzing images, saving groups of images online, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

URL: 
Coverage: 
Prehistory to the present
Access: 

Access is restricted to ASU students, faculty, and staff.

Number of simultaneous users: unlimited.

Eresource type: 
Images, Music and Video
Subjects: 
Africana Studies–Also Useful
Art–Best Bets
Design–Also Useful
Film Studies–Also Useful
Theatre and Dance–Also Useful
Vendor: 
ARTstor