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On Kawara
[Japanese Conceptual Artist, 1933-2014]
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On Kawara Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by On Kawara available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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!
Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany (in German) 
Dec. 28, 1971
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "K"
Mamco (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain), Geneva (in French)
Thanatophanies
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
2. DEZ. 1976
Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Click "K" for "Kawara"
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
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:
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
(Get past the splash page, then click "Artists")
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on On Kawara 
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
Biographical info
Frieze Magazine
"On Kawara: The Recording Angel"
New York Magazine
"Reeling In the Years", 2009 article by Jerry Saltz
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"It's a date!", 2002 article by Adrian Searle
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