Artworks API
A world-class museum collection as an API. All 132,739 artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago's open-access dataset (CC0) — Monet's Water Lilies, American Gothic, Nighthawks, Van Gogh's The Bedroom — each with artist, dates, medium, dimensions, department, classification, style, place of origin, credit line, gallery location, and public-domain / on-view flags. 122,626 artworks carry ready-to-embed IIIF image URLs at three sizes (200/843/1686 px) from the museum's own image server. Full-text search covers titles, artists and descriptive facets ('water lilies monet' finds exactly the right painting), with filters for department, artwork type, artist, year range, public-domain status and currently-on-view. Browse 62,054 public-domain works safe for any use, pull artist profiles with work counts (Picasso: 359), or hit the random endpoint — public-domain-with-image by default — for art-of-the-day features, wallpaper apps and screensavers. Education platforms, print-on-demand, content tools, art-quiz games: museum-grade art data at one token per call.
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"ok": true,
"artwork": {
"id": 6565,
"title": "American Gothic",
"artist": "Grant Wood",
"artist_full": "Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)",
"artist_id": 37343,
"date_display": "1930",
"date_start": 1930,
"date_end": 1930,
"medium": "Oil on Beaver Board",
"dimensions": "78 × 65.3 cm (30 3/4 × 25 3/4 in.)",
"department": "Arts of the Americas",
"artwork_type": "Painting",
"classification": "oil paintings (visual works)",
"style": "Realism",
"place_of_origin": "Cedar Rapids",
"credit_line": "Friends of American Art Collection",
"reference_number": "1930.934",
"gallery": "Gallery 263",
"is_public_domain": false,
"is_on_view": true,
"image_id": "b272df73-a965-ac37-4172-be4e99483637",
"facets": "Realism oil paintings (visual works) Cedar Rapids Oil on Beaver Board",
"images": {
"thumbnail": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/b272df73-a965-ac37-4172-be4e99483637/full/200,/0/default.jpg",
"medium": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/b272df73-a965-ac37-4172-be4e99483637/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
"large": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/b272df73-a965-ac37-4172-be4e99483637/full/1686,/0/default.jpg"
},
"artic_url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6565"
},
"more_by_artist": [
{
"id": 228478,
"title": "January",
"date_display": "1938",
"images": {
"thumbnail": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0b54c226-da71-d825-636b-adbd77f0fa25/full/200,/0/default.jpg",
"medium": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0b54c226-da71-d825-636b-adbd77f0fa25/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
"large": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0b54c226-da71-d825-636b-adbd77f0fa25/full/1686,/0/default.jpg"
}
},
{
"id": 237322,
"title": "Fruits",
"date_display": "1939",
"images": {
"thumbnail": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/394ff5d7-22a6-7347-0d3a-3548a3caee93/full/200,/0/default.jpg",
"medium": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/394ff5d7-22a6-7347-0d3a-3548a3caee93/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
"large": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/394ff5d7-22a6-7347-0d3a-3548a3caee93/full/1686,/0/default.jpg"
}
},
{
"id": 100820,
"title": "July Fifteenth",
"date_display": "1938",
"images": {
"thumbnail": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0ee36c58-4da5-fe04-b2fe-9a9aa8852496/full/200,/0/default.jpg",
"medium": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0ee36c58-4da5-fe04-b2fe-9a9aa8852496/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
"large": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0ee36c58-4da5-fe04-b2fe-9a9aa8852496/full/1686,/0/default.jpg"
}
},
{
"id": 117693,
"title": "Fertility",
"date_display": "1939",
"images": {
"thumbnail": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/1798f46c-9597-bc0f-fdcf-08c5bd59cc87/full/200,/0/default.jpg",
"medium": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/1798f46c-9597-bc0f-fdcf-08c5bd59cc87/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
"large": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/1798f46c-9597-bc0f-fdcf-08c5bd59cc87/full/1686,/0/default.jpg"
}
},
{
"id": 100900,
"title": "The Pump",
"date_display": "1937",
"images": {
"thumbnail": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d8520607-d8de-4bb2-3c9e-25cc4f7926f0/full/200,/0/default.jpg",
"medium": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d8520607-d8de-4bb2-3c9e-25cc4f7926f0/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
"large": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d8520607-d8de-4bb2-3c9e-25cc4f7926f0/full/1686,/0/default.jpg"
}
}
]
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