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I don't enjoy looking at the things I paint, so why should you enjoy it?
| - Richard Estes, quoted by Anthony Haden-Guest in True Colors |
Richard Estes Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Richard Estes available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Richard Estes at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan 2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, summer 1979
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Richard Estes at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Linoleum Store or Danbury Tile, screenprint, 1972
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Water Taxi, Mount Desert, 1999
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City NYC Parking Lot, 1969 Subway, 1981
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York Hotel Empire, 1987
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Cafeteria
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands (Click on the artwork titles, not the thumbnails)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Maine Museum of Art Downtown - Reflections, color woodcut, 1991
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles The artworks aren't labelled, but click to page 2 for what appear to be 3 paintings by Richard Estes
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
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)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales Scroll down to the very bottom of the page
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:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Richard Estes at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia Cafeteria H.C. XVI, 1970
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues 
Hyperrealism and Photorealism Apollo, 1968
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Richard Estes  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.
Art + Auction Magazine Photo gallery accompanying the article Keeping it Real (click "next" to see several more paintings by Richard Estes)
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas A Dialogue Between Gregory J. Peterson and Richard Estes
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