Research Guides: Visual Studies: Find Images

Using Artstor

The CCA Libraries subscribe to Artstor, the premier image database for art and design research. It contains over two million high-resolution images contributed by museums, archives, universities, and libraries. Every image has corresponding data about the creator, materials used, and location of the original.

To download images, individual users need to create a free Artstor account. Our institutional subscription allows CCA faculty, students, and staff to use Artstor images (with proper attribution) for educational purposes such as research papers, presentations, and lectures.

Artstor
High-resolution digital images for the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. As of 2024, all Artstor content is now hosted on JSTOR.
A digital library of more than two million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for teaching and research. The collections include contributions from international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists -- including CCA.

Artstor Introductory Tutorial

Additional Image Resources

Höch, Hannah. The Dream of His Life. 1925. Cut and pasted hand-colored photographs and printed paper on paper, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (29.8 x 22.2 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art.