Library Guides: Asian Studies Library Guide: Find Art Images

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Below are some major platforms for finding images of Asian and Asian American art, including photography.

Artstor This link opens in a new window
A complete image resource in a wide array of subjects with the breadth and depth to add context beyond the confines of your discipline. All images are from reliable sources and rights-cleared for use in education and research. Personal registration is required to download images. Once registered, you can access core collections remotely. Artstor remote access usually last 120-days but, for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis, this feature is set to 365-days.

Digital South Asia Library: Images
The Digital South Asia Library's Images section includes links to: the Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art; three libraries of photographs taken by U.S. servicemen in World War II; the American Institute of Indian Studies; Government College of Arts and Crafts (Chennai); and Oriental and India Office Collections from the British Library (under development).
The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
Explore manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from the Eastern Silk Roads, as well as a range of associated resources.

The Met - Asian Art
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has digitized images of many items in its collection, which consists of more than 35,000 objects ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century.
National Museum of Asian Art (The Smithsonian)
The collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art range from Chinese art to the arts of the Islamic world, from Biblical manuscripts to Southeast Asian art, from the ancient Near East to the United States.
Art Institute of Chicago - Arts of Asia
The Art Institute’s Asian collection comprises works spanning nearly five millennia and from all of the continent’s major artistic traditions. Distinguished collections include Hindu and Buddhist sculpture; Chinese jades, bronzes, ceramics, and paintings; Japanese screens and woodblock prints; Korean celadon; and Indian and Persian miniature paintings.
National Palace Museum - Taiwan
The National Palace Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan. It has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts and artworks, many of which were moved from the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City as well as five other institutions in mainland China during the ROC retreat (Retreat of the government of Republic of China to Taiwan).