William Bradford Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by William Bradford available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Afternoon
William Bradford at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Photograph collection online
New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts
Sunset in the Arctic
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Arctic Diary: Paintings and Photographs by William Bradford
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The English Arctic Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Entrance To Battle Harbor
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
William Bradford at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Floe - Ice, 1872
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
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)
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:
William Bradford in the Art Renewal Center
William Bradford at The Athenaeum 
114 works online by Bradford
California State University WorldImages Database
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on William Bradford 
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
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.
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Sealers Crushed by Icebergs, 1866
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"William Bradford: Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas" (2003)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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