Jean Arp Works Online
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Original works by Jean Arp available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany (in German) 
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Jean Arp at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan 4 works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Musee d'Art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand, France (mostly in French)  Silencieux, 1942 (Zoom)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 32 works online when last checked
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Jean Arp at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Oriforme, 1962
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Plastron et fourchette [Shirtfront and fork]
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Cyprian Sculpture
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Overturned Blue Shoe with Two Heels Under a Black Vault, ca.1925
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice 5 works online
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Head and Shell, ca.1933
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg Move the date slider forward to about 1950 to see an abstract sculpture by Arp
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Hammer Museum, California Fruit hybride dit la Pagode (Hybrid Fruit Called Pagoda), 1934
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project Crown of Buds II, bronze, 1936
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany (in German)  Torse de chorée, 1961
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (in German)  Kobra-Kentaur, 1952
Jean Arp in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project 3 works by Arp
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Crown of buds II
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California Tete De Lutin Dite "Kaspar", 1959
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) 3 works by Jean Arp online
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  Mirr, 1936
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Villa Croce Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy (in Italian)  Click the "right" arrow
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German) 
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures Scroll down to signature 16
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jean Arp at The Athenaeum 10 works online by Arp
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project Idol
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project Oriform
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Museum Image Consortium Figure mythique
Museo Virtual del Surrealismo Enak's Tears
The Androom Archives Colonne de Muse
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean Arp  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
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
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 Biographical info
ARTnews "The World According to Arp"
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) 
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
"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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 The Isms of Art: 1924-1914
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