Information for Galleries and Artists

SearchArtGallery encourages artists and galleries to participate in adding and categorizing their artwork. Unlike other sites that require you to upload images, we get our images by crawling gallery and artist websites just like other search engines. This enables SearchArtGallery to deliver a more comprehensive selection of artwork to prospective art buyers. When art buyers find artwork they like on SearchArtGallery, they click on the artwork thumbnail and are directed to the site where the image came from. By making it easier for art buyers to find work they like, SearchArtGallery increases opportunities for galleries and artists to sell their work. SearchArtGallery focuses on helping users discover artwork from artists and galleries they are not familiar with. Other search engines require input of an artist or gallery name, so aren't helpful for users looking to find art from galleries or artists they don't already know.

How to...

Add a gallery or artist

To add a gallery, first do a search for the gallery URL using the find gallery search bar under the 'add your artwork' tab - chances are its already in the database. If you don't find the gallery listed click the Create Gallery button and add the galleries URL, location, type and name. Finally click the Save Gallery button. It will take several weeks before your gallery's artwork is added by our crawler. See the below for how your site design impacts SearchArtGallery's ability to index your images.

To add or edit an artist, first search for the artist's last name using the find artist search bar - it may be there already. You can also edit artist information by clicking on the artist's name below one of their artworks. If the artist is not listed, you may add the artist to an existing gallery. Artists must be associated with at least one gallery URL, because that tells SearchArtGallery where to get artwork images. Find the gallery by typing in its url in the Gallery Search box and then clicking on the link. After you click on the gallery's link, you'll see a page that allows you to edit gallery information which will have a Create Artist button on it. Click Create Artist, then fill in the form's name, genre and medium fields. Finally save the artist with the Save button. If you're editing an existing artist's medium, genre, or name, follow the same process and save the artist. When editing an artist, you may associate the artist with a new gallery by typing in the gallery's id number in the "associate gallery" field and clicking "Associate". The gallery id can be found on the gallery's page. If you're selling works from a well know or well-sold artist, say a Wharhol print, its better to add your gallery to the existing artist rather than creating a new one, because this allows users to more efficiently find all the work by that artist without wading through duplicate artist names that all represent the same individual. We will delete duplicate entries of artists when we find them.

The artist is there, but its not associated with the right gallery. Artists may be associated with one or more galleries. if there artist is already there, see the paragraph above on how to associate a new gallery with an existing artist.

Change how an artwork or artist is categorized

You may change how your artwork is categorized in terms of medium and genre by changing the artist's categorization - artworks inherit their medium and genres from their artist. See the "to add an artist" section above on how to edit the artist - you can also just click on the artist's name below one of their artworks.

My gallery and artist are there, but I don't see any artworks.

It generally takes a few weeks between when a new gallery or artist is added and when the crawler will add artwork images. If its been several weeks and your search on the artist's name on the search tab yields a "no artworks for that artist" message there may be another reason why your artwork isn't showing up. Some of these reasons involve how your gallery site is designed. Here's a list of the site design issues that may prevent SearchArtGallery from including your artwork - these will have to be addressed by your webmaster, and some of them will impact whether any image search engine, not just SearchArtGallery, will index your artwork.
Using Adobe's Flash to navigate or display images: While flash may look cool, it will prevent any image search engine from indexing individual artworks and slow site navigation for your users.
Artist's name not in html text: Some sites put the name of the artist on each artwork page in a GIF or JPEG or just leave out the artist's name. By 'artwork page' we're talking about the primary page where you display the largest version of the image of the artwork along with the artwork size, artist, title, etc. SearchArtGallery only indexes images that have artist names associated with them, so put the name in html text, either in the title or body of the html. This tip also applies to other image search engines.
Artwork images are not .jpgs:Almost all gallery sites store their artwork images in the .jpg format. If your gallery does not, we won't be able to distinguish your artwork from other types of images such as logos and headers, and your artwork will not be displayed as a result.
Artwork links in javascript:Your pages may use javascript in navigation or in poping up larger images. Often our mirror will not be able to parse more difficult javascript, so its better to leave all image links as html.
Artworks have no data associated with them. SearchArtGallery's indexer requires some data to be associated with each artwork image so that users can search for artwork by distinguishing characteristics. At a minimum, the artist name and the artwork's size should be listed below the artwork in a format like 24" x 36". Ideally the work should be identified with a medium, price, and subject matter as well.
None of the above those apply to me: Send an email to and we'll investigate.

I want to remove artworks from SearchArtGallery

See our removal page.