Top 25 Online Art Galleries
Top 25 Online Art Galleries
Spillink Art Gallery
Spillink.com is an excellent art gallery features a collection of 2D/3D Graphics and Animations. Featured images of artworks and paintings by various artists. Reveal the talents of the great artists at spillink.
Royal Collection
Royal Collection “e-Gallery Online” hosts a large number of works from the Queen’s own art collection. Searchable and well-organized. You can file reprint requests here, as well.
American Illustration
The National Museum of American Illustration, whose collection is housed in a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, RI, hosts this site showcasing illustrators of the “Golden Age of Illustration.” The online samples are small and few in number, but it’s a good place to get started learning about N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Maxfield Parrish, and other greats of the period.
Fantasy Gallery
The Fantasy Fine Art gallery is traditional fantasy art by some two dozen artists, including Frank Frazetta, the Hildebrandt brothers, and Steven Stahlberg.
ABC Gallery
Olga’s Gallery hosts over 10,000 paintings, arranged alphabetically, by country, and by art movement. A simple site focused on presenting art (and some ads).
American Art
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has a large number of online exhibitions. Click on the logo, left, to check it out. Also has links to online artwork.
Museum Syndicate
The Museum Syndicate site hosts over 28,000 works by 740 artists, and the numbers continue to grow. You can browse by artist, country, museum, or by a list of tags.
Salmagundi Club
The Salmagundi Club, in New York City, has been around since 1871. They hold many exhibitions each year. Click on the logo, left, to go to a page with several dozen exhibition links.
Athenaem
The Athenaeum site hosts over 40,000 browsable works of art. Click on the image, left, to go to the full list. You can sort the list by artist name or artwork title.
Art Renewal
The Art Renewal Center site contains over 60,000 art works, making it probably the largest repository of art images on the internet. Emphasis here is on classical works.
Portrait Artist
Stroke of Genius is a commercial site that features working professional portrait artists (traditional media only). The quality here is second to none. A great place to study portraiture.
Egg Tempera
As a painting medium, egg tempera predates oil painting. This site hosts works by members of the Society of Tempera Painters.
Colured Pencil Society
The Colored Pencil Society of America site has galleries showing works from past exhibitions. If you’ve never seen what colored pencil can do, this site will surprise you.
Jason Godbey
Jason Godbey is a brilliant young artist working in the digital realm. His architectural scenes are both complex and serene at the same time. A master of mood and light.
Epilogue
As with the CG Society site, Epilogue has an overwhelming amount of work to sort through, so again I’ve provided a link to the Editor’s Choice listing. Fantasy and science fiction only.
CG Gallery
CG Gallery is very similar to CG Society, both in name and concept. There is a lot of work here, broken down by various tags (Photoshop, Painter, Cinema 4d, etc.). You could get lost for days here.
Art Squared
Art Squared is the new kid on the block, and they seem to be headed for great things. Less than a year old, the site creators have already published a Ballistic-style gallery book filled with submitted artworks.
Raph
Check this site out for some of the best 3D still images anywhere. Raph.com has a large jury (all men, I notice) that must approve a piece before it goes up on the site. The result is very high quality.
Digital Art
Digital Art is another juried site, though in this case I believe it’s only one or two people doing the jurying.
Concept Art
Concept Art is much like CG Society, with one difference: there’s no easy way to find the best work. Even the “best of” page is covered with hundreds of icons (literally), each pointing to an artist’s work. Kudos for trying to give everyone equal exposure, I suppose.
3D Total
3D total is another juried site, and the work here is just superb. You can browse by several different categories. The emphasis is definitely on quality over quantity. Highly recommended.
3DM3
3DM3.com was started up in 2001, with a focus on 3D, but some 2D as well. There is a rating system that allows the best work to float to the top. Check out the “best of” listings.
CG Arena
CG Arena has juried submissions and an active community, so there’s some excellent work here. It’s broken down by 2D and 3D. Again, quality over quantity. Enjoy!
Art Gallery Worldwide
Art Gallery Worldwide (AGW) is dedicated to linking the people of the world to the world of art. Our mission is to provide a high quality online service and a best place to meet both for the lovers of art and for the artists, art galleries and art dealers.
