Vincent Van Gogh, Wheat Fields with Cypresses, 1889. Image couryesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Artstor Digital Library offers visual media from leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists, including many rare and important collections available nowhere else. These collections are rights-cleared for use in education, encompass a wide variety of disciplines, and are enhanced with curated content and classroom-tailored tools.
Visit library.artstor.org to view more than 3 million images of the world’s cultural heritage in the core collections. You can find Artstor in Merced College's alphabetical list of databases on the library website, or login here to create an Artstor account. Additionally, anyone can freely access the Public Collections of 1 million items from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, no login necessary.
Groups are a great way to organize content for your lecture or course, or share a group using links. You can also download groups to PowerPoint for instant presentations.
Organizing your own image content with Artstor’s is a great way to enhance your research and teaching, allowing you to make the connections you want to, for yourself or for a wider group. Just upload, add to a group, and share.
Create a registered user account to get started and log in from anywhere. You can do this on campus or get access by logging in through the Merced College portal.
Once you have created an account you can access Artstor here.
Citations can be easily generated in MLA, APA, and Chicago formats.
