Art Images

The website offers downloadable images, sound files, and other materials on Africa drawn from contributions by the UWM faculty over the last 20-30 years.

List of African Art Resources, including image resources from the Warren M. Robbins Library at the National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C.

Under the direction of Christopher D. Roy (Elizabeth M. Stanley Faculty Fellow of African Art History at the University of Iowa) and hosted by the University of Iowa Museum of Art, this is a freely accessible educational resource that is the product of the collaborative efforts of more than fifty scholars, technicians, collectors and institutions around the world.

The James J. Ross Archive of African Images (located at Yale University) has approximately 5000 pictures of African art published before 1921.

Explore incredible photographs spanning over 100 years of African history, from the 1860s onwards, taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office photographic collection (CO 1069). The full collection can be seen on Flickr, where you can add comments and tags.

The National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C has a collection that covers the artistic expressions of Africa, from the ancient to contemporary times. The museum is also home to a state-of-the-art conservation lab, an unparalleled photographic archives, and a world-class library.