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Leon Golub
[American Painter, 1922-2004]
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Leon Golub Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Leon Golub at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
4 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Head (XV)
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
Broad Art Foundation
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German) 
House of the Barking Dogs, 2003
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Head XXV, 1959
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Prisoners II, 1989
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Mercenaries II, 1979
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Mercenaries I
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Photographs from a 1995 exhibition featuring the work of Leon Golub and Adrian Piper
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Columnar Head, 1958
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Head I, 1966
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:
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues 
NO!art Website
Information about Leon Golub's involvement with this late 1950s-early 1960s art movement
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Leon Golub
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.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Leon Golub at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Leon Golub: Paintings (1950-2000)
Journal of Contemporary Art Online
Interview with Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Tate Magazine
Leon Golub on Max Beckmann
The Brooklyn Rail
"A Tribute to Leon Golub"
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"A half-century of pain, violence, torture, war, evil and anger", 2000 article by Adrian Searle
The Village Voice
"Blowtorch Realism", 2001 article by Jerry Saltz
"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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Leon Golub: Existential-Activist Painter
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Leon Golub
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Do Paintings Bite?: Selected Texts 1948-1996
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