The 8 Best Places to Buy Art Online (2023)

10 Best Places to Buy Custom Wall Art

Particularly popular among Real Simple's editors, Minted is one of our favorite sources to buy art online from a variety of independent artists. The site has lots of filters to help you find what you're looking for—although you can just browse, as well. You can shop by mediums, including paintings, drawings, and photography. You can also sort by style, including abstract, landscape and portraits. There's also a part of the site that allows you to shop by the room in your house, with curated collections that the Minted team believes would look best in your living room, bedroom, dining room, and even bathroom.

You can buy a piece of art on Minted with or without a frame. Unlike some other sites that sell art, you can customize your borders and matting as well as the color of your frame. Doing this will add an extra $100 to your order, but it saves you time making a trip to your local arts and crafts store for a custom frame job.

Product Details:

• Return Window: Handled on a case-by-case basis.
• Free Shipping: No
• Payment Options: Credit card and PayPal. No financing options are available.
  

Saatchi Art is a great place to shop for original art. You'll find original paintings, drawings, photography, and even sculptures. The site allows you to search these mediums by style, subject, and materials used to make the art piece. Paintings include fine art, abstract, and modern as well as less common styles such as pop art and street art. Meanwhile, photography styles available include portraiture, abstract, conceptual, and more. Original paintings, drawings, and photography start at $135, while sculptures start at $140.

There is a more affordable section of the site that does curate originals that are also available in prints, with prices starting at $40. The price of the original is also listed next to the print, so if you find a piece of art that you are in love with, you can consider whether it's worth it to splurge on the original. You have the option for your order to include a frame, with the option to customize your frame by color.

Product Details:

• Return Window: Return requests must be submitted seven days from the delivery date for original artwork and 30 days for edition prints.
• Free Shipping: Only if you buy original artwork.
• Payment Options: Financing is available with Affirm.
  

With its large inventory of artists and creators, you're bound to find some incredible, one-of-a-kind pieces of art on Etsy. The site is a great place for people who know exactly what they want and are willing to put in some serious searching scrolling time to get there. If you aren't exactly sure what you're looking for, the site gives you helpful filters to sort through its vast array of art pieces, including prints, photography, paintings, illustration, and sculpture. There is also a section dedicated to glass art, fiber arts, mixed media, and even dolls and miniatures.

Prices vary greatly by vendor, but you can narrow down your search by a range of price points. Etsy is pretty affordable and you can easily find 8 x 10-inch prints for as little as $20. Keep in mind that Etsy is basically the eBay for arts and crafts, so each seller has its own policies regarding returns. Read the shop's policy, seller reviews, and be mindful of the location of the artist before you buy (there are a lot of international sellers on Etsy).

Product Details:

• Return Window: Varies by seller.
• Free Shipping: Varies by seller.
• Payment Options: Financing available with Klarna.
  

Society6 is a choice platform for independent artists to sell their work, so you'll have plenty of options at your fingertips with this art website. More than 450,000 artists from 170-plus countries sell their art here, including prints, posters, tapestries, murals, and so much more. Wall art can be searched framed or unframed. Compared to other art websites, Society6 offers a variety of frame options to choose from, including recessed frames, floating acrylic frames, frames for small pieces of art and canvas prints.

What's also great about Society6 is that it caters to people who need a little guidance for finding what they want. You can locate art by theme, with options including landscape, travel, animals, food, for kids, funny, and more. You can also easily browse an artist's catalog of work, which is a great option if you're looking to create a cohesive art story in your home. The site offers paintings, photography, illustration, and a big home decor section where you'll find artistic pillows, curtains, and area rugs, to name a few.

Product Details:

• Return Window: Return requests need to be submitted 60 days after your order's delivery date.
• Free Shipping: No
• Payment Options: Financing available with Klarna.
  

Anthropologie's selection of art is just as chic and carefully curated as its fashion offerings. Although a small selection, Anthropology's art department offers popular art styles, including abstract, portraits, landscape, and still life. The brand particularly has an abundance of artwork that depicts flora and fauna, with artwork featuring animals, natural scenery, and plants and flowers in and outdoors.

The site also has an excellent selection of pre-framed artwork. This is great for someone who doesn't want to buy a frame separately or to go through the decision-making process involved with custom framing. The included framing, which ranges from textured gold to rustic wood trim, complements the artwork so beautifully that it looks like it was assessed and selected by a professional. Because of this, you can expect to pay more than what you'd see on other art websites.

Product Details:

• Return Window: Returns accepted 60 days after order date.
• Free Shipping: Only on orders that are $50 or more.
• Payment Options: Financing available with Afterpay.
  

If you're wanting to fill your walls with works from the greats, including Picasso, Van Gogh, Dali, Warhol, Rothko, and more, turn to Art.com. The site sells works from these masters as well as hundreds of other iconic paintings including "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai, "The Japanese Footbridge" by Claude Monet, and the "The Kiss, 1907-08" by Gustav Klimt. There is also a robust photography section that sells equally iconic photographs, ranging from Ansel Adams' famous National Parks photography and photos from the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Art.com also allows you to add frames to your order and, depending on the chosen artwork, it may also be available in canvas. If you aren't sure exactly what you want, the site offers plenty of helpful filters, narrowing down their collection by artist name, art movement, trends, subjects, and more.

Product Details:

• Return Window: Returns are accepted within 45 days after the order is shipped out from the warehouse.
• Free Shipping: Yes
• Payment Options: Financing available with Affirm.
  

Calling all fans of photography! You don't want to miss Lumas, an online marketplace for art photography. The brand boasts more than 3,000 pieces of photography from 250 artists from around the world, including both established names and up-and-comers. From overhead beach photography snapped from helicopters to nature prints and portraits, there are options here for every style. You can search Lumas' vast collection by photography type, including animal, celebrities, still life, abstract, conceptual photography, and more.

Unlike other art websites, you aren't given a lot of freedom in terms of customizing a frame, should you want to add one. However, you are given the unique option to frame it the way the artist or curator recommends based on the piece itself. This option comes with a cost, upwards of a couple hundred extra dollars, so it might be worth it just to have the photos framed yourself if you want a particular style. Prices are generally $100 and up, but you can find unframed prints for less than $40.

Product Details:

• Return Window: 30 days
• Free Shipping: No
• Payment Options: Financing available with Klarna.
  

The art sold through Urban Outfitters has just as much personality as the brand itself. If you're looking for something funky, kitschy, vintage-inspired, and a lot of fun, you'll enjoy the clothing brand's collection of prints for purchase. Scroll through and you'll find everything from vintage band posters to colorful typography and Henri Matisse-inspired still lifes, with this version including cats. The brand also sells pop art of Mickey Mouse and there's an entire series dedicated to Star Wars.

The majority of art available are prints, whether that's a print of an illustration, painting, or photography. Some art comes with frames included, and compared to other websites, the prices aren't too bad. For an 18 x 24 inch print with a frame, you'll be able to pay as little as $39.

Product Details:

• Return Window: Returns are accepted within 30 days of your order's delivery date.
• Free Shipping: Only on orders that are $50 or more.
• Payment Options: Financing available with Afterpay.
  

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