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Hans Hofmann Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Hans Hofmann available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Numerous works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
3 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Hans Hofmann at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Undulating Expanse, 1955
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
August Light, 1957
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Crocker Art Museum, California
Untitled Landscape, ca.1941
Crocker Art Museum, California
Untitled Landscape, ca.1941
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Landscape, 1940
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!
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Scintillating Blue 38-30, 1956
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Morning, 1948
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Rising Sun, 1958
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Ruby Gold, 1959
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Untitled #5, 1962
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Hans Hofmann at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Fruitbowl Version 6, 1950
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Provincetown Number One, 1937
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German) 
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Untitled, 1949
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:
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Estate of Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann Paintings and Works
PBS
Information from the show Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher Teacher/Artist
Repository of Abstract Art
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Hans Hofmann 
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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Secret Source
Modern Painters Magazine
Brief review of "Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950" at the Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Mass. (2009)
The Art Story
The New York Observer
"Seldom-Cited Master Hans Hofmann Returns To Reacquaint Viewers", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Superheated Hans Hofmann in Small Met Exhibition", article by Hilton Kramer
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
"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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Search for the Real Other Essays
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Hans Hofmann: Revised And Expanded
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