LibGuides: Chromophilia: Explorations in Color: Finding Images

Artstor

Searching in Artstor is a great way to get visual inspiration for your designs through objects and art. One advantage of ArtStor is you can zoom in very closely on the image and look at the details.

Play around with different search ideas and see what you can find!

Basic Search

Keyword search pigment
Keyword search "color palette"
Keyword search "color wheel"

Go to Advanced Search

Keyword search cobalt and select the classification "architecture and city planning"

Examples from ArtStor

Spectrum

The Rainbow (Partial)

Holi vendor

Color Chart

A Quarter til Ten

Clichy paperweight

Colorful Ball

Feather headdress of an Aztec priest

Summer Core

Entice 2

Fantastic Green Bat Figure

Search Digital Image Collections by Color

Cooper Hewitt
You can search Cooper Hewitt digitized collection by color and select which reference palette you want to use: CSS3, CSS4, or Crayola
NYPL Digital Images
You can search New York Public Library's collection 187,000 digital items in the public domain by color.
Rijksmuseum
You can search 340,000 images from Rijksmuseum by color.
MulticolorEngine for Flickr
MulticolorEngine extracts the colors from 20 million Creative Commons images on Flickr to make the images searchable by color.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
The search tool allows you limit your search results by selecting one color or multiple colors.