Tate Collections
Tate, London, United Kingdom
Image by Eugen Belyakoff from Noun Project
Description 
A descriptive note detailing the content and context of the digital collection.
The Tate is a group of four museums, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall and Tate Modern. The museums focus on British art and International contemporary and modern art. Its digital database contains more than 69,000 images of collections across the museums. Among them, more than 7,300 are with Creative Commons. Users can search and refine the results by date, object type, artist, subject and collection.
Collection Type Broad terms that define the type of digital collection
Subject Broad terms or phrases that describe, identify, or interpret the digital image collection and what it depicts or expresses. Values were obtained using the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) by the Getty Research Institute.
Style Period Terms that define the styles, art periods, movements, etc. whose characteristics are represented in digital image collection. Values were obtained using the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) by the Getty Research Institute
Work Types Terms that identify the kinds of works in the digital collection being described. It typically refers to a work’s physical form, function, or medium in digital image collection. Values were obtained using the Thesaurus For Graphic Materials (TGM) by Library of Congress.
Openness Openness of the digital collection determined using the 4R activities by Wiley (2010).
Allow Reuse for educational and non-commercial purposes
Notes on Usage Additional notes on the terms of use on the digital images in the collection.
“Website content that is Tate copyright may be reproduced for the non-commercial purposes of research, private study, criticism and review, or for limited circulation within an educational establishment (such as a school, college or university).” Use must be cited with the source of the content must be identified and the copyright status of the content acknowledged in the following format: ‘Title, Artist, Date of Work, Photo: © Tate, London [current year]’.
e.g. Weeping Woman (Femme en pleurs), Pablo Picasso, 1937, Photo: © Tate, London 2015.
Please check their Terms of Use for full details before using images.
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