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Louise Bourgeois Works Online
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Original works by Louise Bourgeois available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
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)
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Click "View all" to see a total of 7 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra C.O.Y.O.T.E.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 8 works online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Persistent Antagonism, 1947-49 The Nest, 1994
Louise Bourgeois at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Nature Study: Eyes, 1984
Brooklyn Museum, New York City 3 works online
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Centre Pompidou, Paris Information about a 2008 exhibition
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague Information and images from a 1995 exhibition
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!
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Spider, 1997
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "B"
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City Untitled (Germinal), 1967
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia 2 works online
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, Kansas
Palazzo Forti, Verona (in Italian) Fallen Woman, 2000
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art Still Life (you need to scroll right by clicking the right-arrow to see this)
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Observer
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago Information about a 1981 exhibition
University Art Museum, Albany, New York Crossing the Threshold: Thirty-Two Women Artists
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
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:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project Spider
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour at Kunsthalle Wien (7 works online)
Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK Click "Gallery" at right to see works by Louise Bourgeois
The Androom Archives In and Out No. 2
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Photograph of the artist by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Louise Bourgeois 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
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 "Show and Tell: Louise Bourgeois at her Sunday salon"
Deutsche Bank Artmag Interview: Louise Bourgeois
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 45): Louise Bourgeois
Modern Painters Magazine "Blood Ties"
The Art Newspaper (Tip: Click "Zoom navigable", not the thumbnail, to get the largest image size) Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010: "I believe that if you work enough, the world is going to get better"
The Art Story
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions", 2010 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Louise Bourgeois dies in New York, aged 98", 2010 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Any answers?", 2004 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "'She tells lies in the nicest way'", 2007 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard "Curse of the spider woman", 2007 article by Brian Sewell
Multimedia:
PBS Profile from art:21 - Art in the 21st Century
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Interactive Flash feature: Louise Bourgeois's The Nest
"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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Louise Bourgeois' Spider
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Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father
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Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Observations
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