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Open-Access Credits

Dated 17 October 2026 · Version 2026-10-17

Ochre Editions is a service operated by Valor Security (valor registered name). Every work in our catalogue is shared by a museum through its open-access programme. This page credits each one.

No endorsement

No museum endorses, sponsors or is affiliated with Ochre Editions, and none sells through us. We use no museum logos or trademarks. A museum's name appears on our site only to credit the source of a work, in the form "Courtesy of …", with a link to the museum's own record.

How we use the collections

• We include a work only when the museum marks it CC0 or public domain. The museums also hold works still under copyright, and those are never included.
• Museum text, such as label text, is shown as the museum published it, with its source named. Where we reformat museum data, for example by converting dimensions to inches, the result is modified from the museum's original.
• Text we write ourselves is labelled as ours.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Programme: The Met's Open Access programme, published through its Collection API and its open-access dataset.
• Licence: works the Met marks as public domain, released under CC0.
• Our credit: "Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art".

Art Institute of Chicago

• Programme: the Art Institute's open-access collection, published through its public API and data dump.
• Licence: public-domain works, with images released under the CC0 Public Domain Designation. We use the museum's CC0 short descriptions only.
• Our credit: "Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago".

Cleveland Museum of Art

• Programme: Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, published through its API and open-access dataset.
• Licence: works marked CC0.
• Our credit: "Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art".

National Gallery of Art, Washington

• Programme: the National Gallery of Art's open data and open-access images.
• Licence: images the Gallery marks as open access, released into the public domain under CC0.
• Our credit: "Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington".

Smithsonian Institution

• Programme: Smithsonian Open Access. We draw on the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, Cooper Hewitt, the National Museum of Asian Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
• Licence: images marked CC0.
• Our credit: "Courtesy of" the Smithsonian museum that holds the work.

Room photographs

The interior photographs in our wall previews are CC0 or our own.

Fonts and icons

• Libre Caslon Display and Libre Caslon Text, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• Manrope, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• Phosphor Icons, under the MIT License.

Questions

If you think a credit is wrong or missing, use "Report this work" on the artwork's page, or write to legal email.