LibGuides: Art &amp; Design Resources: Images

Artstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor contains over 2.5 million images and media files covering the arts, architecture, humanities, social sciences and sciences.

Art Cyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
An online, searchable index of over 9000 artists and their works.
Archives of American Art
Source of interviews, letters, oral histories, photographs and other primary sources documenting the visual arts in America.
MFA Images
Over 160,000 images of historical portraits, images of objects from numerous cultures, and beautiful illustrations that span the Museum of Fine Arts encyclopedic collection.
Pixabay
Free public domain images.
Everystockphoto
Search engine of free photos (requires free sign-up). Terms of use are included on license icons.
OpenPhoto
Images with Creative Commons Licenses in numerous categories.
Morguefile
An archive of free photos that can be used commercially and without attribution.
Pexels
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license.
Openverse Search by Creative Commons
Search for items licensed by Creative Commons in Flickr, Google, YouTube, Wikimedia, and more.
Google Images: Advanced Search
Advanced image search allows users to search by "Usage Rights"
Flickr Advanced Search
Allows users to search by license type including Creative Commons, Public Domain, and other specific terms of use.
Open ClipArt Library
Images available for commercial and noncommercial use.