Louise Bourgeois art links 

Original works by Louise Bourgeois available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!
Untitled

Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
The Blind Leading The Blind, 1947-49

Louise Bourgeois at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Eyes, 1982 (Zoom)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
3 works by Louise Bourgeois online

Louise Bourgeois at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
5 works by Louise Bourgeois

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
C.O.Y.O.T.E.

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
7 works online

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Nature Study: Eyes, 1984

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

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

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Sainte Sebastienne, 1992

Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
Three Horizontals, 1998

Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
The Insomnia Drawings

Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
5 works online

Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York

Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Information and images from a 1995 exhibition

Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Illustrated .PDF document with info about the 2007 exhibition, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Projects

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

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.)

National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
Untitled (Germinal), 1967

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, Kansas   NEW!

Neue Galerie Graz, Austria

Palazzo Forti, Verona (in Italian)  
Fallen Woman, 2000

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art   NEW!
Still Life (you need to scroll right by clicking the right-arrow to see this)

Seattle Art Museum

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Observer

Louise Bourgeois at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972

Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia

Tate Gallery, London, UK

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)  

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Quarantania, 1941

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian Institution 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)

 

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)

 

Art Minimal & Conceptual Only

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

PBS
art:21 - Art in the 21st Century

The Androom Archives
In and Out No. 2

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Photograph of the artist by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

UBS Financial Services Art Collection

 

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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

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

Art & Antiques Magazine
"Grande Dame: Louise Bourgeois' multifaceted art makes the personal universal"

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"

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

Time Magazine
"A Sense of Female Experience", 1982 article by Robert Hughes

 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Louise Bourgeois's The Nest

TateShots: Tate Museum Videos about Art   NEW!
Exhibitions: Curator Frances Morris on meeting Louise Bourgeois

"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.   search inside Louise Bourgeois' Spider look inside Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father look inside Louise Bourgeois look inside Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Observations look inside Louise Bourgeois