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JSTOR is now home to over 2.5 million images (previously found on Artstor Digital Library) from the world’s museums, archives, scholars, and artists, with a specialized suite of tools for teaching and learning with visual materials — all rights-cleared for education and research.
Use keyword searching to find images in JSTOR. Image results will be at the top followed by scholarly articles and other resources. Click on an image to learn more about it. You will see details such as:
Creator (i.e. the artist or creator of the work)
Title (i.e. the title of the work)
Work Type (i.e. the category of the work)
Date (i.e. the date the work was created)
Material (i.e. the material of the work)
Measurements (i.e. the measurements of the work)
Repository (i.e. the museum, gallery, or other institution where the work is held)
Accession Number (i.e. when the work was acquired by the repository)
Subject (i.e. the Artstor subject headings associated with the image)
Image Source (i.e. where the image of the work comes from)
Rights (i.e. usage rights for the image)
You can add the image to a group, download a copy, cite the image, or get a direct URL to the image page.
A screenshot of Van Gogh's The Starry Night from JSTOR.
One of the features that sets JSTOR apart from other image repositories is the ability to zoom in and out of high-resolution images. This will provide details that you won't find elsewhere to aid your analysis of the work. You can even save your zoomed-in images for inclusion in your research papers.
A zoomed-in screenshot of Van Gogh's The Starry Night from JSTOR. You can see the individual brushstrokes and color variations in the work.
Image Credits: Screenshots from JSTOR.