The WebMuseum, a Rich Source for Images

One of my favorite sources for painting and drawing images has long been the WebMuseum. It is particularly strong on European art of the 20th-Century, but also goes back as early as the 1200s, and contains an extensive area of Japanese art.

The images are often of very high quality, suitable for presentations or use as screen savers. I used the image on the left, Albrecht Dürer's "The Large Turf," for my screen saver for years.

The WebMuseum is one of the oldest websites still around! It was first created in 1994, a mere 3 years after the World Wide Web was developed. Its creator Nicholas Pioch believes firmly that art belongs to everyone and created the site so that people all over the world could have access to part of our cultural history.