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.
Available Endpoints
Request Parameters
API URL
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Headers
Query Parameters
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import axios from 'axios';
const url = '{API_URL}';
const { data } = await axios.get(url, {
headers: { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' }
});