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MoMa UK
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Public Domain Images For Artists - 25+ Collections | MoMa UK
November 24, 2024 - An image collection that’s long been a favourite of mine for gathering resource materials for artwork and collage. If you like animals, birds, bugs, plants, the oceans and everything in them then welcome to your new home for high-res copyright free images. The image collection is held on Flickr rather than their website with every image available for download under a Creative Commons license.
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scrappapercircus
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Public Domain Imagery You'll Love!
October 15, 2024 - With over 600,000 vintage, medium resolution, public domain images with no restrictions on usage, Viintage is a veritable gold mine. There is also an option for paid membership to get access to high resolution images, though I find the medium resolution images totally satisfactory for small collages.
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Public Domain Pictures
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Collage Images - Public Domain Pictures - Page 1
Collage Images. Royalty free stock photos. All pictures are free for commercial and personal use.
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The Art League
theartleague.org › blog › 2018 › 01 › 02 › updated-where-to-find-public-domain-images-for-your-artwork
Updated: Where to Find Public Domain Images for Your Artwork – The Art League
The Met has released over 375,000 images with a CC0 license as part of their Open Access program. See their full collection or just the public domain portion. Dover Publications makes books that we first heard of through the work of collage artist David Alfuth.
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Digitaljunkjournals
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Where to find free vintage photos and ephemera for junk journals – Digital Junk Journals
Some really neat, unusual images here which are free to use, but most have an Attribution license on them which can make it a little more complicated to use as you’d have to keep track of which specific image elements you put into a collage. Still, it’s work checking out just to see what’s there for grabs. Great for: Vintage photographs, maps, manuscript scans, and modern images. This is a specific part of Flickr which is a collection of images under various usage licenses, so be sure to double-check. Some images have a “NoDerivs” license, which means you can’t change it; others have a non-commercial license, etc. I tend to just search under Public Domain Mark or Public Domain Dedication.
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The Public Domain Review
publicdomainreview.org › tags › collage
collage — Tag — The Public Domain Review
Search The Public Domain Review · Support PDR · Collections · Images / Music & Arts · The Legs of the Opera (ca. 1862) Images / Natural World, Design & Typography · Festooned: Martin Gerlach’s Decorative Groupings (1897) Images / Religion, Myth & Legend · The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/collage › [discussion] sources for cc0/public domain images and photos
r/collage on Reddit: [Discussion] Sources for CC0/Public Domain images and photos
May 15, 2025 -

Hey there. I thought this could be a place for sharing CC0/Public Domain sources for collages. I know there are sites like unsplash or pixels, but I red about cases where people upload images there, that are copyrighted by another people (and about groups that do this on purpose to make money). For this reason, I often look for CC0/public domain images/photos that are offered by museums or single artists/photographers which share them on their websites. So here is what I found - I hope you find it useful and add more:

1.) Websites with CC0 illustrations by Pablo Stanley: https://www.transhumans.xyz/about https://www.openpeeps.com/ https://www.humaaans.com/

2.) Webite with CC0 illustrations by Katerina Limpitsouni: https://undraw.co/

3.) Website with CC0 illustrations by Vijay Verma: https://illlustrations.co

4.) Websites from museums and similar stuff (you have to set filters to find PD stuff):

https://www.mkg-hamburg.de/sammlung/online?

https://www.europeana.eu/en

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/

https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/

https://www.flickr.com/commons

5.) Raxpixel.com (has collections with public domain stuff - for example paintings by the artist Paul Klee)

6.) Website with CC0 photos by Markus Spiske (Note that the photos doesn't have a model or property release): https://ffcu.io/

7.) Website with free photos by Ryan McGuire (Note that there is many AI stuff too and I'm not sure if the photos have a model release AND read the license page): https://gratisography.com/license/

8.) Website with free photos by Karolina Grabowska (There is a model release, but read the license page for allowed uses): https://kaboompics.com/page/terms-of-use

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Digitaljunkjournals
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10 more places to get free images for digital collages – Digital Junk Journals
A wonderful collection of high resolution images of public domain artworks, including paintings, drawings, and other paper-based art. Images are in 300 DPI, making them suitable for digital collage work. You can also browse through collections organized by topic (e.g.
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The Public Domain Review
publicdomainreview.org › collections › all › style › collage
Medium: All – Style: Collage — Collections — The Public Domain Review
Search The Public Domain Review · Support PDR · + Filter Options · Browse Media · AllImagesBooksFilmAudio · Filtered By · AllEpochTheme · Browsing by MediumAllImagesBooksFilmAudio · Filter All Collections by · All · Epoch · Theme · Images / Design & Typography · The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s) Images / Religion, Myth & Legend · The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca.
Find elsewhere
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Photo
strongphotography1920.photo.blog › 2020 › 05 › 11 › public-domain-collages-old-and-new
Public Domain Collages: Old and New – Strong Photography 19-20
May 11, 2020 - This week we will be looking through our photos and photos (and artwork) that are in the public domain and combining them in order to create a collage. I combined the work of Henri Toulouse a la Trec and my own image of a house and combined them. I saw the similarity between my sky and…
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Pinterest
pinterest.com › explore › diy and crafts
Free Public Domain Collage Images & Ephemera
August 5, 2021 - ... Public domain means that the works are no longer held under copyright by any person or corporation, and any individual person can use them for any purpose, including commercial use.
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YouTube
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Free Images Websites for Collage Art Making | Public Domain ...
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org › wiki › Commons:Collages
Commons:Collages - Wikimedia Commons
Public domain images have no attribution or copyleft requirements at all, so they can be incorporated in any collage.
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Rawpixel
rawpixel.com › search › public domain paper collage images | free photos, png stickers, wallpapers & backgrounds - rawpixel
Public Domain Paper Collage Images | Free Photos, PNG Stickers, ...
Public Domain Paper Collage Images · Download free stock photos, transparent PNGs, HD backgrounds & mobile wallpapers. Discover high quality design resources including vector graphics, PSD mockups and creative fonts. Browse beautiful illustrations & original artworks.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/collage › [discussion] where do you find digital files for collages?
r/collage on Reddit: [Discussion] Where do you find digital files for collages?
May 22, 2023 -

I've made a few digital collages with an android app called Dada, that has pre-loaded 'scraps' and pictures. I've also been making analog collages for years. I'm interested in maybe selling prints of my digital collages (made with something other than Dada, probably GIMP or Photopea). I've found some public domain art, but they're mostly JPG. Where do you all find commercial use art for your collages for a decent price (or free, if that exists). I've searched on google but most of what I'm finding isn't what I'm looking for.

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Unsplash https://unsplash.com/?fbclid=IwAR0-TTp9OCdN3lZw32rnIFmYylTTdk7f4DWNHaMhadpHUdX2vSahP1xiKO0 Pixabay https://pixabay.com/pt/ Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Oldbook Ilustration https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/ Old Book Art https://www.oldbookart.com/ Raw Pixel https://www.rawpixel.com/category/53/public-domain Wikiart https://www.wikiart.org/ Creative Commons Images https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/ Smithsonian Open Access https://www.si.edu/openaccess Europeana Collections https://www.europeana.eu/en/search?query=&qf=RIGHTS%3Ahttp%2a%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Fpublicdomain%2Fmark%2a&qf=TYPE%3A%22IMAGE%22&reusability=open&view=grid British Library https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums Rijksstudio https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio?ii=0&p=0&from=2020-05-18T21%3A53%3A41.8864484Z MET Open Access https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?searchField=All&showOnly=openAccess&sortBy=Relevance&offset=0&pageSize=0 Cleveland Museum of Art https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search?fbclid=IwAR1_5may9o_sjugw7hD8_g8Cvp_4Y4izs2uwJ8KcIyIRLGtRTz1wGRk4cpI The Curator https://twitter.com/thevoidishungry?fbclid=IwAR3QfVXjlkbZsdP6SwFg8Wte8TjUZSFLN9KRols The Internet Archive (Minado no Flickr) https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/page1 Finland’s National Gallery https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/search?copyrightFree=true&hasImage=true&fbclid=IwAR3zXsreMl9TMcC87VEDQYhDHc5QANCvggeMjGt8gO4_yYCkTNlW_DoBCmM NASA Images https://images.nasa.gov/
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You’re not using copyright-free images for your analog collages, right? So why you worried about it with digital?
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Flickr
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Flickr: The Collage Images (NOT FOR POSTING ART) Pool
This is NOT the place to post your artwork! This is a photo pool for images that are OK for others to save, print & use in their altered art, collage, and mixed media work. You MUST Be a Member to View Images. Come chat with us!
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PICRYL
picryl.com › topics › collage
1,589 Collage Images: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search Engine Public Domain Search
A collage of three images of a carnival ride / A collage of a carousel and a sky with clouds public domain stock photo. A red background with a white ribbon and a white banner / A painting of a banner with a bunch of pumpkins / Public domain stock illustration. Free images of orchids. Use free photos of orchids without any copyright restrictions. Book cover: Free images of book covers, available for commercial use, no attribution required.
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Publicdomainimagelibrary
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Public Domain Image Library - Out of Copyright Art Collections
We continually source images, buy books and publications to scan, and collate pictures into collections for your use. You are of course free to find and research artists and images for yourself if you wish to. You can use the images for anything you like – make prints to frame, postcards, posters, greetings cards, background papers for crafting, collage...
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Public Domain Image Archive
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Images in the Style “Collage” | Public Domain Image Archive
Public Domain Image Archive from · or · Browse by · artist · century · style · theme · tag · all · Select an Option · Artist · Century · Style · Theme · Tag · All · Browse by… · Artist · Century · Style · Theme · Tag · All · Change View ·
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Pinterest
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Image Resources for Collage
A collection of images that are suitable and safe for collage artists and crafters to use, public domain and/or fair use.