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Vija Celmins
[Latvian-born American, born in 1939]
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Vija Celmins Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Vija Celmins 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)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Untitled, 1970
(In the "Lithograph" section)
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
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Hammer Museum, California
Drawings from a 2007 exhibition
Hammer Museum, California
Hand Holding a Firing Gun, 1964
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!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Works from the Gemini G.E.L. prints online catalogue raisonné
Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Eraser, 1967
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Strata
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Collection of aquatints, etchings and other prints
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:
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
PBS
Superb reproductions of a couple of works plus a photograph of the artist.
Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
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
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 107): Vija Celmins
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 29): Vija Celmins
The New Yorker
"Dark Star", 2001 article by Peter Schjeldahl
Multimedia:
PBS
Profile from art:21 - Art in the 21st Century
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including Celmins' Desert Surface #1, 1991
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