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This is great and I'd be happy to add it to my list of High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds[1], where I catalog sites like these, but wh

This is great and I'd be happy to add it to my list of High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds[1], where I catalog sites like these, but where are the images coming from? There seems to be no information. For example for the American artist Charles Courtney Curran, Artvee has three: https://artvee.com/artist/charles-courtney-curran/ https://artvee.com/artist/charles-courtney-curran/ This is more than NY Public Library with only one: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=Charles+Courtney+Curran https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C... And the Art institute of Chicago, with also only one: https://www.artic.edu/artists/5703/charles-courtney-curran https://www.artic.edu/artists/5703/charles-courtney-curran (note there are no duplicates among these galleries!) And the National Gallery, with zero: https://www.nga.gov/collection-search-result.html?artist=Charles%20Curran https://www.nga.gov/collection-search-result.html?artist=Cha... And the Smithsonian, which has none of the above but does have his photomechanical prints: https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=charles%2Bcourtney%2Bcurran& https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=charles%2Bcourtney%2Bcurran... Wikipedia, by the way, has several not seen in any of the above. So I'd like to know where you are sourcing these. [1] https://simonsarris.com/art-collections https://simonsarris.com/art-collections

exolymph 6y ago
I echo this call for source info. Also, Simon, I didn't know that you maintained such a resource! Thank you, I will be using it.
voltagex_ 6y ago
Do you have any better way of looking for sources other than Google Image search? Mostly I found the Charles Courtney Curran images on Pinterest, eBay (!) and several Chinese "art reproduction" sites. No closer to working out where it was sourced from.
mattkevan 6y ago
Rawpixel also have an extensive collection of public domain art if you’ve not come across them before https://www.rawpixel.com https://www.rawpixel.com
therecb 6y ago
The images are sourced from museums and libraries with open access policies all over the world. We are currently working on adding sources, locations and other metadata to all the images as well as an API.
- Tokeflote 6y ago
  I love the fact that you aggregate only the art work from world museums. I was looking for a site that I could browse such work. I did book mark your site. Some feedback if you'd like - the infinite scroll is a bad browsing experience when used for huge amount of work: - picture loading starts slowing down when scrolling too much. - when a reach a point I cannot save my browsing process. For example I browsed the Abstract category. There are so many works that I can't possibly see them all in one sitting. Next time when I sit to browse I can't continue from where I have reached. My use case for your site would be to find good wallpapers for my PC. Apart for the browsing experience it would be nice to be able to filter images based on resolution or aspect ratio so that I can find wallpapers. You mentioned you are making an API so maybe that could solve that. Art needs to be seen and the best place for me to see is on my desktop wallpaper :)

exolymph 6y ago

I echo this call for source info. Also, Simon, I didn't know that you maintained such a resource! Thank you, I will be using it.

voltagex_ 6y ago

Do you have any better way of looking for sources other than Google Image search? Mostly I found the Charles Courtney Curran images on Pinterest, eBay (!) and several Chinese "art reproduction" sites. No closer to working out where it was sourced from.

mattkevan 6y ago

Rawpixel also have an extensive collection of public domain art if you’ve not come across them before https://www.rawpixel.com https://www.rawpixel.com

therecb 6y ago

The images are sourced from museums and libraries with open access policies all over the world. We are currently working on adding sources, locations and other metadata to all the images as well as an API.

Tokeflote 6y ago
I love the fact that you aggregate only the art work from world museums. I was looking for a site that I could browse such work. I did book mark your site. Some feedback if you'd like - the infinite scroll is a bad browsing experience when used for huge amount of work: - picture loading starts slowing down when scrolling too much. - when a reach a point I cannot save my browsing process. For example I browsed the Abstract category. There are so many works that I can't possibly see them all in one sitting. Next time when I sit to browse I can't continue from where I have reached. My use case for your site would be to find good wallpapers for my PC. Apart for the browsing experience it would be nice to be able to filter images based on resolution or aspect ratio so that I can find wallpapers. You mentioned you are making an API so maybe that could solve that. Art needs to be seen and the best place for me to see is on my desktop wallpaper :)