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

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://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C...

And the Art institute of Chicago, with also only one: https://www.artic.edu/artists/5703/charles-courtney-curran

(note there are no duplicates among these galleries!)

And the National Gallery, with zero: https://www.nga.gov/collection-search-result.html?artist=Cha...

And the Smithsonian, which has none of the above but does have his photomechanical prints: https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=charles%2Bcourtney%2Bcurran...

Wikipedia, by the way, has several not seen in any of the above. So I'd like to know where you are sourcing these.

[1] https://simonsarris.com/art-collections

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

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Post by Lorin » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 8:16 PM UTC

Wish I could search by artist's region. Eg. Canada, Japan, etc.

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

#9

Post by exolymph » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 8:47 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…

I echo this call for source info.

Also, Simon, I didn't know that you maintained such a resource! Thank you, I will be using it.

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

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Post by layoutIfNeeded » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 9:04 PM UTC

Something isn't right with the resolutions:

   Standard, 1164 x 2400px
   JPG, Size: 3.55 MB, 300dpi

   Max Size, 1940 x 4000px
   JPG, Size: 9.63 MB, 300dpi

They can't be both 300dpi (unless your dpi settings doesn't have anything to do with the physical size of the original artwork, in which case why bother with dpi settings at all?).