OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 22 shown for “Albert Pinkham Ryder” — 60 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:13 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
The Toilers of the Sea, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

The Toilers of the Sea

Albert Pinkham Ryder · ca. 1880–85

Public domainThe Met
Albert Pinkham Ryder, by Louise Fitzpatrick, 1833 - 1933?

Albert Pinkham Ryder

Louise Fitzpatrick, 1833 - 1933?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Under a Cloud, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

Under a Cloud

Albert Pinkham Ryder · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Albert Pinkham Ryder, by Alice M. Boughton, 14 May 1866 - 21 Jun 1943

Albert Pinkham Ryder

Alice M. Boughton, 14 May 1866 - 21 Jun 1943 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

Landscape

Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1897–98 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Dancing Dryads, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Dancing Dryads

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · by 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bridge, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

The Bridge

Albert Pinkham Ryder · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Passing Song, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Passing Song

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · before 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Smugglers' Cove, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

The Smugglers' Cove

Albert Pinkham Ryder · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Albert Pinkham Ryder, by Unidentified

Portrait of Albert Pinkham Ryder

Unidentified · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curfew Hour, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

Curfew Hour

Albert Pinkham Ryder · by 1882

Public domainThe Met
In the Stable, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

In the Stable

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · before 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moonlight Marine, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

Moonlight Marine

Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1870–90

Public domainThe Met
Christ Appearing to Mary, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Christ Appearing to Mary

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest of Arden, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

The Forest of Arden

Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1888–97 (?), reworked 1908 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Panel for a Screen: Woman with a Deer, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Panel for a Screen: Woman with a Deer

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pasture at Evening, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

Pasture at Evening

Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1912–32

Public domainThe Met
Harvest, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Harvest

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn Meadows, by Albert Pinkham Ryder

Autumn Meadows

Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1912–17

Public domainThe Met
Florizel and Perdita, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Florizel and Perdita

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · by 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel for a Screen: Children Playing with a Rabbit, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Panel for a Screen: Children Playing with a Rabbit

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel for a Screen: Children Frightened by a Rabbit, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Panel for a Screen: Children Frightened by a Rabbit

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 20 matched · 20 examined · 10 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 77609 matched · 40 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 13:13 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.