On August 1, 2024, Artstor will merge with JSTOR. Moving forward, JSTOR will serve as a search platform for the images that were once hosted on Artstor along with the usual JSTOR content. If you have image groups in Artstor that you would like to copy into JSTOR Workspace, you can find instructions to do so at the link below.
ARTstor is a repository of images of art, architecture, and design. The images are sourced from museums, libraries, archives, and photographers. ARTstor includes a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. ARTstor is supplemented by additional content, including publicly available image collections and locally-produced NYU collections.
***Announcement: On August 1, 2024, Artstor will merge with JSTOR. Moving forward, JSTOR will serve as a search platform for the images that were once hosted on Artstor along with the usual JSTOR content. Contact Giana Ricci, Librarian for the Fine Arts, giana.ricci@nyu.edu with questions.***
In order to download images, users must create an ARTstor account.
JSTOR provides access to scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to journal articles, users can access book chapters, ebooks, and primary source documents.
The Art & Architecture ePortal database is an eBook resource that features works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. The database also allows users to search for images within all titles by keyword.
The ArtNet price database provides international auction sales records of fine art, decorative art, and design dating from 1987 to the present.
To access the "Price Database," under the "Price Database" menu near the top, select "Use the ArtNet Price Database"; on the next screen, hit "Login" in the center of the screen and you will be logged in.
You do not need to create an account for NYU access.
Art & Architecture Source is an essential research database for peer-reviewed, full-text art and architecture journals with coverage dating back to 1914. Subjects include fine, decorative, and commercial art, as well as architecture, landscape, urban planning, and architectural design. With strong international coverage, including periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, it offers hundreds of full-text art journals, magazines, and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts, and thousands of images. It also includes the contents of Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984), formerly called Art Source.
AP Newsroom (formerly AP Images) contains photos and audio gathered by Associated Press reporters around the world. Content is updated daily and continuously. The archive also includes the NYC Associated Press Daybook (the AP Daybook), the current year's photo report, and historical images dating from the 1500s. Photos and audio may be downloaded or printed.
Art Magazine Collection Archives contains indexing and full text (including covers and advertisements) for Magazine Antiques (1922-2016), which provides a history of collecting over the course of the 20th century, ARTnews (1902-2006), and Art in America (1913-2015). These journals provide content related to fine arts, art history, interior design, decorative arts, and architecture in the 20th and early 21st century.
NYU Libraries subscribes to the Berg Fashion Library, Fairchild Books Library, the Fashion Photography Archive, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive and Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases. Content is peer reviewed by industry and academic experts and includes interconnected major reference works, exclusive articles, scholarly eBooks, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and images from museums around the world.
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides access to scanned fire insurance maps and other maps of cities and towns in the United States. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, or anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. The maps include information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors.
The Global Plants database features high-resolution type specimens. The collection also includes partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings, and photographs.
Pidgeon Digital: Illustrated Talks by Architects is a unique library of slideshows in which architects narrate design ideas and concepts that influenced their thinking about a particular building or space. Users can explore images of buildings while listening to artist and architect commentary.
Images of America: A History of American Life in Images in Texts is cultivated from Arcadia Publishing's series of local history books. All of the images and texts have been indexed to provide access and enable exploration of the depth of a town's history or to compare the histories of various towns, cultures, ethnic groups, architectural features, and more.
Trade Catalogues and the American Home - Explore domestic consumerism, life and leisure in America between 1850-1950 with Trade Catalogues and the American Home. This resource presents a wealth of highly illustrated primary source documents that highlight commercial tastes and consumer trends, and provide a valuable visual record for a breadth of interdisciplinary study.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels contains digitized images of comic books and graphic novels from the 1960’s to the works of modern sequential artists. The collection also contains materials about comics, including interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from The Comics Journal and other secondary sources.
Victorian Popular Culture is an essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The resource is divided into four self-contained sections: Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema; Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment; Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks; Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic.
The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from 1892 to the current month. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been indexed so that images can be found by garment type, designer and brand names.
ARt Image Exploration Space is a free interactive image manipulation system that enables the exploration and organization of fine digital art. The system allows images to be compared in multiple ways, offering dynamic overlays analogous to a physical light box, and supporting advanced image comparisons and feature-matching functions, available through computational image processing.
NYU Faculty and Staff can download the Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom and InDesign for free by visiting nyu.thehub.com.
NYU users can request access to the geographic information system software ArcGIS and StoryMaps by filling out the form linked here. ArcGIS allows you to create interactive maps and data visualizations. StoryMaps allows you to contextualize those maps by embedding them on a webpage with other content like images and text.
