ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

To search, enter a keyword and, using a pulldown menu, select “All Collections,” “University of Delaware Art History Visual Resources,” “Archivision Digital Research Library,” or “My Personal Library.”. You can also do an advanced search to specify additional search criteria. You can browse by Geography, Classification, and Collection.

The University of Delaware Art History Visual Resources collection is a primary teaching resource for Art History faculty. It covers architecture, painting, sculpture, graphics, decorative arts, and material culture from pre-historic times to the modern era. Although the collection originally focused on Western European and traditional American art history, it also includes non-Western arts such as Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Tibetan, sub-Saharan and Nilotic African arts, and Islamic arts. The collection also embraces photography and graphic design and contemporary developments in video/performance art and sculpture/installation art. It also reflects current interests in women’s art, so-called “outsider art,” and African-American painting and sculpture. This collection is constantly growing in support of teaching and research within the department.

The Archivision Digital Research Library, a component of ARTstor, is a core architecture collection.