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Berenice Abbott
[American Photographer, 1898-1991]
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Berenice Abbott Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Berenice Abbott available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 9 works online by Abbott
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Photograph collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Berenice Abbott at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. Canyon: Broadway and Exchange Place, 1936
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana 3 works online
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Yuban Warehouse, gelatin silver print, 1934
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! Consolidated Edison Power House, 666 First Avenue, Manhattan
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts Repair Shop, Christopher Street, New York, 1949
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts American Shops, Lodi, New Jersey, 1954
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma 3 photographs online
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York Flash slideshow; Click "Photographs"
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota Get the Picture: Thinking About Photographs
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by Berenice Abbott
Museum of the City of New York Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, The Complete WPA Project
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Biography of the artist
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
Tampa Museum of Art, Florida Normandie, 1983
University of Maine Museum of Art Father Duffy Times Square, 1937
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum Untitled (select from the drop-down list)
Virtual Museum of Canada Brooklyn Bridge, Water and Dock Streets, Brooklyn, 1936
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Masters of Photography
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
The History Project at U.C. Davis
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Inspired by Berenice Abbott
ArtsNet Minnesota
Photography @ Temple University Online
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Berenice Abbott Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
PhotoQuotes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Berenice Abbott, Photographer: An Independent Vision
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New York Changing: Revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York
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New York in the Thirties
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Berenice Abbott: Changing New York
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