How to Cite Images & Artwork in Chicago Style

Image Citation Elements

• • Artist/creator name
• • Title of work (italicized)
• • Date of creation
• • Medium or format
• • Dimensions (when relevant)
• • Current location or collection
• • Source of reproduction (if applicable)
• • URL (for digital images)

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, oil on canvas, 243.9 × 233.7 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Notes-Bibliography bibliography:
Picasso, Pablo. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. 1907. Oil on canvas, 243.9 × 233.7 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Author-Date reference list:
Picasso, Pablo. 1907. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Oil on canvas, 243.9 × 233.7 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1904, bronze, 186 cm height, Musée Rodin, Paris.

Author-Date reference list:
Rodin, Auguste. 1904. The Thinker. Bronze, 186 cm height. Musée Rodin, Paris.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936, gelatin silver print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998021539/PP.

Author-Date reference list:
Lange, Dorothea. 1936. Migrant Mother. Gelatin silver print. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998021539/PP.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Annie Leibovitz, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1980, chromogenic color print, 50.8 × 61 cm, private collection.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.1 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York, accessed November 15, 2023, https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802.

Author-Date reference list:
van Gogh, Vincent. 1889. The Starry Night. Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.1 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Accessed November 15, 2023. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Ansel Adams, Moon and Half Dome, 1960, gelatin silver print, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, accessed November 12, 2023, https://ccp.arizona.edu/item/adams-moon-half-dome.

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1. Paul Revere, The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston, 1770, hand-colored engraving, 25.7 × 22.9 cm, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.

Author-Date reference list:
Revere, Paul. 1770. The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston. Hand-colored engraving, 25.7 × 22.9 cm. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Thomas Nast, "The Tammany Tiger Loose," illustration in Harper's Weekly, November 11, 1871, 1057.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Pulse Room, 2006, interactive installation with sensors and light bulbs, dimensions variable, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, https://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/pulse-room.

Author-Date reference list:
Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael. 2006. Pulse Room. Interactive installation with sensors and light bulbs, dimensions variable. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. https://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/pulse-room.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Beeple (Mike Winkelmann), Everydays: The First 5000 Days, 2021, digital collage (NFT), 21,069 × 21,069 pixels, sold at Christie's, March 11, 2021.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Georgia O'Keeffe, Black Iris III, 1926, oil on canvas, reproduced in Sarah Whitaker Peters, Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years (New York: Abbeville Press, 1991), 87.

Author-Date reference list:
O'Keeffe, Georgia. 1926. Black Iris III. Oil on canvas. Reproduced in Sarah Whitaker Peters, Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years (New York: Abbeville Press, 1991), 87.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), 1950, oil on canvas, reproduced in David Miller, "Abstract Expressionism and American Identity," Art History Quarterly 45, no. 2 (Spring 2023): 78.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. John Smith, Virginia Discovered and Described, 1624, engraved map, 31 × 39 cm, Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Washington, DC, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002623131.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. "Election Results by County, 2020," diagram in Jennifer Adams, "Voting Patterns in American Democracy," Political Geography 52, no. 3 (Fall 2023): 156.

Notes-Bibliography footnote:
1. Portrait of George Washington, ca. 1790, oil on canvas, 76.2 × 63.5 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Author-Date in-text:
(Portrait of George Washington ca. 1790)

Author-Date reference list:
Portrait of George Washington. ca. 1790. Oil on canvas, 76.2 × 63.5 cm. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

With permission statement:
1. Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.