Art - American

High quality images of the fine arts (painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing), photography, architecture and new media including Film, Audio, Video, Performance Art and Digital Art

Approximately 7,300 works in public collections in the USA created by native born or naturalized French artists created between 1500 and 1960.

The Creative Commons has a list of museums with "open source" policies for images. This means images can be used free of charge for educational purposes as long as you cite the owning museum.

The mission of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is to welcome all to celebrate the American spirit in a setting that unites the power of art with the beauty of nature. The museum is committed to telling broad and inclusive stories by acquiring and showcasing the highest quality works by artists underrepresented in art history and conventional museum frameworks. Crystal Bridges’ permanent collection spans five centuries of American artworks from early American to the present.

Records for all 100,000+ objects in the Gallery's collection, many with images. Use to search for specific artists.

Home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world from the colonial period to today. The collections include photography, modern folk and self-taught art, African American art, Latino art, and video games. The museum has the largest collection of New Deal art and exceptional collections of contemporary craft, American impressionist paintings and masterpieces from the Gilded Age. Recently, the museum has focused on strengthening its contemporary art collection, and in particular media arts.

Explore the Whitney's collection of over 25,000 works, created by more than 3,600 American artists during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The premier museum of American decorative arts, with an unparalleled collection of nearly 90,000 objects made or used in America between about 1640 and 1860. The collection is displayed in the magnificent 175-room house, much as it was when the du Pont family lived here, as well as in permanent and changing exhibition galleries.