Visual Art:
Journal Databases & Digital Collections

Oxford Art Online
Contains articles on all aspects of the visual arts including biographies of artists, collectors, dealers, writers, and scholars. Thousands of art images are included with the articles.

ARTstor
A fully searchable resource providing more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.

The community-built collections comprise contributions from international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists’ estates.

Additional Resources

Images & Visual Resource Collections
A comprehensive research guide to online collections, including both free and subscription-based visual archives, arranged by topic (advertising, art, photography, and many others), geographical settings, and historical time periods.

Compiled by Harriet Sonne de Torrens, Visual Resources Liaison Librarian, Visual Resource Library, University of Toronto Mississauga.

University of Toronto Libraries
Other major research resources (reference sources and journal databases) in the field of visual arts are listed on the University of Toronto Libraries website.