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Marcel Breuer
[Hungarian-born American Architect, 1902-1981]
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Marcel Breuer Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Design Museum, London, UK
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
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)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin Wassily Lounge Chair, 1925
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest Information and images from the 2007 exhibition Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York City 4 works online
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England Isokon Long Chair, 1936
Marcel Breuer at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. Marcel Breuer: A Centennial Celebration
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 2 works online when last checked
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 (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:
Fine Arts in Hungary
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project Whitney Museum of American Art
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Great Buildings Online
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Marcel Breuer  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
Marcel Breuer at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. The Marcel Breuer papers online
"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. | |
look inside
 Marcel Breuer, Architect: The Career and the Buildings
look inside
 Marcel Breuer: A Memoir
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