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There is a tradition of emphasizing those key areas of the face which control likeness, while the skin, neck, hair and background are not considered of primary importance in the reading of a portrait. I wanted to make those areas almost as interesting and important as the more symbolic areas of the face.
| | - Chuck Close, quoted in Realists at Work |
Chuck Close Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Chuck Close 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
Georgia, 1984
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Alex, woodcut, 1991
Roy II, 1994
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Maquette for April, 1990
Chuck Close at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
Chuck Close at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
16 works online when last checked
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
3 works
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Self-Portrait, 2000
(In the "Screenprint" section)
Chuck Close at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Fanny/Fingerpainting, 1985
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Bob
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Self-Portrait, 1996 (Zoom)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Untitled Torso (K.W.)
Academy Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Lorna Simpson, digital pigment print, 2006
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.
Bill, 1990
Bibliotheque Nationale de France (in French) 
Phil/Fingerprint, 1981
Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, Texas
Mini-site for a 2003 exhibition
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Broad Art Foundation
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut NEW!
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio NEW!
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Self-Portrait, 2006
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(If you get any paging/navigation errors, click the green "search" button & try again)
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Self-Portrait, 2002-2003
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Lorna I, 1996
Chuck Close in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (in German)
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Leslie
Miami Art Museum, Florida
Page for a 2004 exhibition. There is a pretty good self-portrait in .PDF format if you click on "gallery notes"
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Nancy
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Frank, acrylic on canvas, 1969
Phil / Fingerprint, lithograph, 1981
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Cindy
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by Chuck Close
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
Self-Portrait, 1988
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Leslie/ Fingerprint
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Keith, 1970
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Keith/Random Fingerprint Version, 1979
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Keith, 1970
Chuck Close at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Self-portrait Composite Sixteen Parts, 1987
Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Georgia/Fingerprint I, 1985
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Phil III, 1982
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina NEW!
Leslie, color woodblock print, 1993
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
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:
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Self-Portrait
Chuck Close at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Photograph of an unidentified painting from the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtLex
Keith, mezzotint, 1972
ArtsNet Minnesota
Blind Spot Magazine
Crown Point Press
Hyperrealism and Photorealism
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
University of Washington, Seattle
W Magazine
5-page article about Philip Glass's ballet inspired by Chuck Close's life and work
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
See link 40, and link 41 for an extreme close-up of the same painting
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works 
The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Chuck Close
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
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
John, 1971-72 (from a Photo gallery accompanying the article Keeping it Real)
ARTnews
Bomb Magazine
Interview with the artist Joe Zucker, conducted by Chuck Close
FAD - art fast news NEW!
Kate Moss
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 30): Chuck Close and Tom Friedman
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Resource Library Magazine
Slate Magazine
"No Cigar: The creation of Chuck Close, art-world hero," article by Christopher Benfey
Chuck Close at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1987 interview from the Oral History project (with sound clip)
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
The Brooklyn Rail
Interview with the artist
The New York Observer
"Chuck Close's MoMA Show? You Could Do a Lot Worse", article by Hilton Kramer
The Washington Post
Time Magazine
"Close, Closer, Closest", 1981 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Close Encounters", 1998 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Blowing Up the Closeup: No painter was ever more aptly named than Chuck Close", 1977 article by Robert Hughes
University of Washington Alumni Magazine
Article on Close's life as a UW student, his career, and the blood clot which left him partially paralyzed
Multimedia:
Big Think NEW!
Chuck Close discusses various subjects on video
Google Video
30-minute documentary: The Artist Studio: Chuck Close
Princeton University, New Jersey
Scroll down to [b]October 9, 2003[/b] for a video in multiple formats of Chuck Close lecturing at Princeton. The length isn't indicated but it looks like about a half-hour or so.
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
Several appearances by Chuck Close
"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
Chuck Close Prints: Process & Collaboration
look inside
Chuck Close, Up Close
look inside
Parkett # 60: Chuck Close, Diana Thater, Luc Tuymans
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