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David Hammons
[African-American Installation Artist, born in 1943]
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David Hammons Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by David Hammons available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Basketball Drawing, 2001
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Praying to Safety
Palazzo Grassi, Venice - the François Pinault Foundation exhibition space
Scroll the images right to find one by David Hammons
Palazzo Grassi, Venice - the François Pinault Foundation exhibition space
Smoke Screen
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
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)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
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:
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Photograph of the artist by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) 
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Artforum
"500 Words": David Hammons provides a personal statement about his work
Frieze Magazine
"Wreaking Havoc on the Signified"
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 72): David Hammons
Frieze Magazine
"David Hammons: The Unauthorised Retrospective"
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"David Hammons at White Cube", 2002 review by Adrian Searle
The New Yorker
"The Walker", 2002 article by Peter Schjeldahl
The Village Voice
"Fur What It's Worth", 2007 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. | |
look inside
David Hammons: Rousing the Rubble
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