John Baldessari Works Online
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Original works by John Baldessari available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Home Page:
John Baldessari
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Specimen (After Dürer), 2000
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
17 works online when last checked
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Stuart Collection of Sculpture at the University of California
Read/Write/Think/Dream, installation documented by numerous photographs
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Artist page from the Whitney Biennial 2008
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Solving Each Problem As It Arises
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Broad Art Foundation
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Hammer Museum, California
Person With Guitar (Red), screenprint, 2005
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
John Baldessari in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Fish and Ram
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Digital art project: Still life: Choosing and Arranging
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
John Baldessari at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Certain Unknown Unclassified Facts
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Voluble Luminist Painting for Max Kozloff, 1968
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
To Insert: Person and Ladder (Red)/Hose/Smoke; Flowers and Plate
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
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John Baldessari at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Telefónica Foundation Collections, Madrid (in Spanish) 
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
Persons holding Head
(Click on "thumbnails")
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
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:
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Blind Spot Magazine
Crown Point Press
The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
(Get past the splash page, then click "Artists")
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
W Magazine
Slideshow of 15 works
Articles and Reference Sites:
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.
Art + Auction Magazine
In the Studio: John Baldessari
Deutsche Bank Artmag
Interview: John Baldessari
Deutsche Bank Artmag
John Baldessari at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Deutsche Bank Artmag
John Baldessari Edition at Deutsche Guggenheim
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 51): John Baldessari
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 93): John Baldessari
John Baldessari at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1992 interview from the Oral History project
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
The Village Voice
"Wonderful Cynicism: John Baldessari", 1998 article by Peter Schjeldahl (via Artnet)
Multimedia:
PBS
Profile from art:21 - Art in the 21st Century
Tate Channel
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty (2009)
Tate Channel
John Baldessari: Talking Art (2009)
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Art podcast: Adrian Searle discusses a John Baldessari show at the Sprüth Magers gallery (2009)
Video Data Bank: Video Art and Video Artists
Click on the videocamera icon to launch video (videos are fairly small)
"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.
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John Baldessari: National City
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