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Ray Eames Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 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)
Design Museum, London, UK
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
4 works online
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
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
4 works online
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
"LCW" lounge chair
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Molded Plywood Chair, 1946
Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City (in Spanish) 
"La Chaise" chair
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Rocker, 1952
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
7 objects online
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:
Filmography from the Internet Movie Database
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Ray Eames 
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.
Frieze Magazine
"The Shock of the Used -- The relevance of Charles and Ray Eames"
Ray Eames at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1980 interview from the Oral History project
Multimedia:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Several videos related to the work of Charles + Ray Eames, including "Powers of Ten"
"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. | |
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Charles & Ray Eames
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Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century
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An Eames Primer
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Eames Design
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Work of Charles and Ray Eames
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