LibGuides: Image Research Guide: Chicago

Image Citations: Chicago Style

Typically, images are not cited in the bibliography. Rather the information necessary to locate an image is included in an image caption. When formatting image citations in Chicago style, follow the guidelines below and reference the placement of credit lines in The Chicago Manual of Style Online:

Images should be labeled Figure, abbreviated to Fig., followed by an assigned number,
and given a caption.
Caption details include the artist’s name, the title of the artwork, date, materials, measurements, repository, physical location, source, and credit link.
The source of the artwork is where you referenced the image. It could include a book, article, database, or website.

Image Sources

Format

Fig. Number. Artist, Artwork title. Date, medium, measurements. Repository, location. Available from: image database, URL (accessed Month Day, Year).

**TIP: If artist is unknown put "unknown artist"

Example: Downloaded image from JSTOR

Fig. 6. Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel. 1995, oil painting, 51 x 25 x 16 1/2 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York. Available from: JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.14555071 (accessed October 18, 2024).

Format

Fig. Number. Artist/Creator, Title, date, materials, measurements, repository/location. Source. figure/plate number referenced in the print source. (Credit Line).

Example

Fig. 7. Helen Frankenthaler, Europa, 1957, oil on unprimed canvas, 179.1 x 137.8 cm, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York, New York. Frankenthaler, Helen, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. After Mountains and Sea : Frankenthaler 1956-1959. New York, NY: Guggenheim Museum, 1998. fig. 3. (© 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York).

Format

Fig. Number. Artist/Creator, Title. Date, materials, measurements. Museum repository, location. From: Repository, URL. (© credit line which includes copy).

Example: Downloaded image from museum repository

Fig. 3. Berenice Abbott, Jane Heap. ca. 1928, gelatin silver print, 24.1 x 18.7 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/261798. (© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc.).