Dan Flavin Works Online
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Original works by Dan Flavin available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Dia Center for the Arts, New York City
The Dan Flavin Art Institute, 1977 installation in Bridgehampton, New York
Guggenheim Berlin
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
12 works online when last checked
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Dan Flavin at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Dan Flavin
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Flavin
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Untitled (to Ellen Johnson, fondly)
Chinati Foundation
Untitled (Marfa project)
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City
From the 2004 exhibition Design is not Art
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Untitled (for A.C.)
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish) 
Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "F"
Lenbach House, Munich, Germany (in German)
Artworks from the site's databank: Select the artist in the "Künstler" column
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
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Musées de Lorraine, France (in French)
Sant titre
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
the alternate diagonals of March 2, 1964
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Dan Flavin at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
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Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Untitled (see middle row)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Untitled, Jan. 22, 1964
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Dan Flavin at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Menil Collection, Texas
Information about the Menil's Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
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)
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:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Dan Flavin: Retrospective at the MCA Chicago (17 works online)
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective (15 works online)
The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
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Articles and Reference Sites:
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
Apollo Magazine
Article: "Any bright ideas?"
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 63): Dan Flavin
New York Magazine
"Dan Flavin's 1964 breakout show, in meticulous reproduction", 2008 article by Jerry Saltz
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Strip tease", 2006 article by Adrian Searle
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| 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.
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Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light
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