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Hector Guimard
[French Art Nouveau Architect and Designer, 1867-1942]
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Hector Guimard Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Hector Guimard at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Vase, 1897
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Entrance to the Métropolitain
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Brohan Museum, Berlin, Germany (mostly in German) Buffet
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 19 works by or related to the artist
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Cabinet, ca.1899
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:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
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
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
William Allen's Image Archive Photographs of the famous Paris Metro entrance designed by Guimard
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Nouveau World Wide Server
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Hector Guimard 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.
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