Lyonel Feininger Works Online
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Original works by Lyonel Feininger available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Many works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Lyonel Feininger at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
3 works online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Many works online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Lyonel Feininger at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Lyonel Feininger
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Village Pond of Gelmeroda
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
3 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin
Portfolio for Walter Gropius "1924 18/V"
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin
Cathedral, wood-cut for the Bauhaus Manifesto, 1919
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Zirchow
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
Schlossgasse, 1915
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
Hammer Museum, California
2 comic pages are by Feininger
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Lighthouse I, 1947
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
2 works online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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Lyonel Feininger in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Zirchow VI
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
3 works
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian) 
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
5 works by Feininger
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Mill, 1918
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
The Gate, ca.1920
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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3 works by Lyonel Feininger online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 paintings online
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Brooding Sky
City Moon
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Lyonel Feininger at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Lyonel Feininger at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Stiftung Moritzburg, Moritzburg, Germany (in German)
4 works online
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Denstedt, 1917
The Albertina, Vienna
The High Shore, 1923
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
In a Village Near Paris (Street in Paris, Pink Sky), 1909
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Calm, 1940
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
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)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(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 highlights from the Autumn 2005 sale
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:
Lyonel Feininger at CGFA
Lyonel Feininger at The Athenaeum
8 works online
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Kubisme (Cubism) (in Dutch)
The Modernist Journals Project
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The Visual Telling of Stories
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Lyonel Feininger 
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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.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Deutsche Bank Artmag
Lyonel Feininger: Strollers - The Passing Scene
Gibbon Art Blog
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Alfred Vance Churchill papers regarding Lyonel Feininger online
The New York Observer
"Lyonel Feininger's Leap, Caricaturist to Cubist", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Tobey and Feininger, Epistolary Buddies In the Avant-Garde", article by Hilton Kramer
Time Magazine
"The Velocipede of Modernism", 1986 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"20th-Century Lyonel Feininger Art Work"
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