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Oscar Bluemner Works Online
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Original works by Oscar Bluemner available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 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!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Oscar Bluemner at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Blue Day
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Loving Moon, watercolor, 1927
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
The Poor Farm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Untitled, 1930
Guilford College Art Gallery, North 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!
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Form and Light, Motif in West New Jersey (Beattiestown), 1914
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Triad Brilliant, Passaic River Hills, 1932
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Campo S. Trovaso
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Oscar Bluemner at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Study: The Dance of Factory Life
Oscar Bluemner at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Huntington Library, California
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
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)
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:
Oscar Bluemner at The Artchive
Oscar Bluemner at The Athenaeum
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
MyStudios
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) 
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
The New York Observer
"Painter Bluemner Defeated By History And Styles of Times", article by Hilton Kramer
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