Vanessa Bell Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Panel Entitled "White"
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Virginia Woolf, 1911-12
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Brighton & Hove Museums, England
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, East Sussex, England
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, UK
Window Still Life
Landscape with a pond and water lilies
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
16 works by or related to the artist
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
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:
Vanessa Bell at CGFA
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
UK Government Art Collection
Women Artists from the Medieval Period to the Present
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.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Tate Magazine
Studland Beach, ca.1912
"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. | |
look inside
Bloomsbury Portraits: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Their Circle
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