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Alvan Fisher
[American Painter, 1792-1863]
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Alvan Fisher Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Alvan Fisher available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
Alvan Fisher at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts Roadside Meeting
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine 4 paintings online
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee The White Pony, 1838
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
New-York Historical Society Niagara: The American Falls, ca.1821
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts 1 work online: View of Salem from Gallows Hill (row 4/image 4). Click on the little "i" on the detail images to bring up information about the works.
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York Fishing in New Hampshire, 1852
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York Hunters in a Landscape, ca.1830
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York Hunters in a Stream with Dog, ca.1830
The Huntington Library, California
Virtual Museum of Canada The Great Horseshoe Fall, Niagara, 1820
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
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)
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:
Alvan Fisher at The Art Renewal Center
Alvan Fisher at The Athenaeum 11 works online by Fisher
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
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
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition Complete article, now in the public domain. Obviously, some facts may have changed since 1911.
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