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Vanessa Bell
[English Painter, 1879-1961]
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Vanessa Bell Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Virginia Woolf, 1911-12
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
6 works online when last checked
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:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Vanessa Bell at CGFA
Additional Image Search Tools:
(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:
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
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.
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look inside
Bloomsbury Portraits: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Their Circle
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