Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

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Post by voltagex_ » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 11:23 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #7

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/ This is more than NY Public Library with only one: https://digit…

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.

Re: Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

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Post by pugworthy » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 11:48 PM UTC

rememberlenny wrote: post #3

Some of my favorite posters are open source NASA posters. Find them here: https://artvee.com/?s=nasa&post_type=product&product_cat=0

Was just going to post this too. Also the SpaceX travel posters are online as well.

Re: Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

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Post by zhoujianfu » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 11:55 PM UTC

Nice!

You could order framed prints of these via YC company levelframes.com... they won’t do copyrighted stuff but since this is all public domain... perfect!

Re: Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

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Post by pugworthy » Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 12:02 AM UTC

It is not "...Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations from some of the best artists the world has ever known", unless you believe this primarily applies to Euro/Western art.

E.g., Utagawa Hiroshige, the Japanese ukiyo-e artist who is "considered the last great master of that tradition" has just one entry.

Re: Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

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Post by therecb » Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #7

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/ This is more than NY Public Library with only one: https://digit…

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.