Vija Celmins Works Online
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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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Vija Celmins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Prints of Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
20 works online when last checked
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Untitled, 1970
(In the "Lithograph" section)
Vija Celmins at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Untitled, 1973
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Hammer Museum, California
Drawings from a 2007 exhibition
Hammer Museum, California
Hand Holding a Firing Gun, 1964
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Vija Celmins in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Vija Celmins at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
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
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Untitled (Ocean)
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
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)
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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:
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.
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 107): Vija Celmins
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 29): Vija Celmins
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
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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