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How to Use Art Museum Image Gallery

 

The Art Museum Image Gallery is a digital resource for art images, gathered from the collections of museums around the world, has now been added to the Library's growing collection of electronic resources. The collection of over 96,000 images spans artistic creation from 3000 B.C. to the present, and represents art from a variety of cultures. Along with the image is provenance data and curatorial text. This is an especially useful ways for faculty and students to access art images because the images are rights-cleared for educational purposes. Students and faculty can save the images and import them into their classroom materials and presentations.

Works from Art Museum Image Gallery are licensed for non-commercial educational use only.

The Art Museum Image Gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text.

 

• Over 96,000 high-quality images with a full description. Many include curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views for many images, and related multimedia where available.
• Essential for programs in art history, studio art, and design.
• Illustrate papers, lectures, assignments, and password-protected websites with high-resolution images.
• Enriches research in multicultural studies, area studies, archaeology, classics, history, religion, cultural studies, literature, and related subject areas.
• Distinguished international museum sources ensure a high level of visual quality and impressive selection of images.
• Presents a broad range of time and place-spans artistic creation from 3000 B.C. to the present, with art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples.
• Superb coverage of contemporary and modern artists.
• Coverage of both fine and decorative art: painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, glass, books and manuscripts, archaeological finds, and more.
• Provides unprecedented access to museum collections for research, education, and enjoyment.

Search by:

Keyword	Artist	Title of Work	Creation Year
Subject	Ownership	Type of Object	Culture or Nationality

You can also search by specific fields.

 

Field Name	Example
AB Description of Work	drawings in ab
The AB field contains text describing the original artwork cited in the record. The description may include the historical context of the work of art, exhibitor/loan history, the physical appearance of the work, provenance, or relationship between the work and others.
AN Accession Number (a limit field)
The AN field contains a unique identifier assigned to a work in Art Museum Image Gallery.
AR Artist	mark rothko in ar bonnard in ar
The AR field identifies the name of the artist who created the original work.
BNT Biographical Note
The BNT field contains biographical information about the creator of the work.
BPL Birthplace (a limit field)	paris in bpl poland in bpl
The BPL field indicates where the artist was born. You can search by city, by US state, by Canadian province, or by country.
CD Artist Dates
The CD field gives dates and places associated with the artist or culture that created the work.
CEE Earliest Era (a limit field)	bc in cee
The CEE field has values of AD or BC to indicate whether the work's creation date is after or before the start of the common era. The CEE field does not display in the record. Creation dates display in the CRT Date Work Created field.
CLE Latest Era (a limit field)	bc in cee
The CLE field has values of AD or BC to indicate whether the work's creation date is after or before the start of the common era. The CLE field does not display in the record. Creation dates display in the CRT Date Work Created field.
CPL Copyright Info Link
The CPL field lists the URL that links to information on how a user can acquire rights to use the work.
CPW Copyright of Work
The CPW field is a statement of the copyright of the work.
CRE Earliest Creation Date (a limit field)
The CRE field gives a number indicating the earliest possible date a work could have been created. The CRE field does not display in the record. Creation dates display in the CRT Date Work Created field.
CRL Latest Creation Date (a limit field)
The CRL field gives a number indicating the latest possible date a work could have been created. The CRL field does not display in the record. Creation dates display in the CRT Date Work Created field.
CRT Date Work Created
The CRT field gives the date when a work was created, or a range of dates when it could have been created.
DCB Documented By
The DCB field contains the name of the person who documented the work and the date the work was documented.
DOB Date of Birth (a limit field)	10 in dob
The DOB field contains the date of birth of the artist. It may include day, month, and year. The year may refer to BC or AD.
DOD Date of Death (a limit field)	1990 in dod
The DOD field contains the date of death of the artist. The years may refer to BC or AD. This field may include just the year or year with month and day.
DPL Place of Death (a limit field)	new york in dpl england in dpl
The DPL field indicates where the artist died. You can search by city, by US state, by Canadian province, or by country.
DT Document Type (a limit field)	art reproduction in dt
The DT field describes the contents of the document. The records in this database contain reproductions of works of art.
FTI Full Text Indicator (a limit field)
The FTI field indicates whether the record includes a full description of the artwork. The field contains a "y" if the description is present.
$tdfontGEN Gender (a limit field)	f in gen m in gen
The GEN field indicates the gender of the artist, if known: m or f.
MT Materials and Techniques (a limit field)
The MT field contains information about the materials and techniques used to create the work of art.
NAT Nationality
The NAT field gives the culture or nationality of the artist who created the work.
OT Other Titles
The OT field provides additional title access. It may include alternate titles or title variations.
OTY Object Type
The OTY field contains terms that characterize the original work of art. Following is a list of terms used in the database: Architecture Audio-Video Books Costume and Jewelry Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Drawings and Watercolors Installations Mixed Media Other Paintings Photographs Prints Sculpture Textiles
OWA Owner Accession Number (a limit field)
The OWA field gives the accession or inventory number assigned to the work of art by the owner.
OWC Owner Credit
The OWC field provides a credit line, or any required mention or acknowledgement of the ownership of the work of art.
OWN Owner of Work
The OWN field provides the name of the institution or individual who owns the work.
OWP Place of Ownership
The OWP field gives the geographic location where the work is owned.
PD Physical Description (a limit field)	books in pd
The PD field describes the illustrative reproduction that appears with database catalog record. The content is identical to the OTY Object Type.
PII Primary Image Indicator (a limit field)	y in pii
The PII field indicates whether there is an image. If there is an image, the field contains a "y."
PJD Publication Julian Year (a limit field)
The PJD field gives the first year in which a work was included in Art Museum Image Gallery.
PY Work Creation Date (a limit field)	1993 in py
The PY field contains the year in which the work was created. If there is a range of dates during which a work could have been created, PY uses the earliest possible date. This field is range searchable. You can search a range of dates using the and operator:	(py>1990) and (py<1998)
You can also search for a specific date using Browse.
RD Related Documents
The RD field gives the title or description of the related document and may include a URL link to the document.
RM Related Multimedia
The RM field gives a description of the related multimedia file and includes the URL link for that file.
RW Related Art Works
The RW field is a description of the relationship between this work and any others. It may include an identifier for the related work or a link to the related art work.
SIZ Dimensions
The SIZ field contains information about the artwork's measurements.
SLI Secondary Link Indicator (a limit field)
The SLI field indicates whether there are alternate images for the artwork. If there is one or more alternate images, the field contains a "y."
SU Subject(s)
The SU field contains a controlled vocabulary term that describes the document. The field can include personal names, topical terms, organization names, geographic names, and uniform titles.
TI Title	irises in ti
The Title field contains the title or name of a work. You can search for any word or phrase in a title.
UD Update Code (a limit field)	19980203 in ud
The UD field contains the year, month, and day in which the record was added to the database. The format is yyyymmdd. You can search for a single date using in as shown above. In addition, you can search for a range of dates.
< (less than)	(ud<19940802)
> (greater than)	(ud>19940802)
<= (less than or equal to)	(ud<=19940802)
>= (greater than or equal to)	(ud>=19940802)
You can also search a range of dates using the operator:	(ud>19990801) and (ud<19990901)
Using Limit Fields
Limit fields, when combined with other search terms, are particularly useful for focusing or limiting a search. To search a limit field, use the in operator with the field short name abbreviation, such as reproduction in dt. Omitting the field label retrieves information from free text (non-limit) fields only. For limit fields containing numeric data, you can also use other special operators:
< less than	(py<1984)
> greater than	(py>1993)
<= less than or equal to	(ud<=19930802)
>= greater than or equal to	(ud>=20010531)
Combine this type of numeric-field range search with another search term:	(py>2001) and dividends
You can search a range of dates using the operator:	(py>1998) and (py<2001)

 

 

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