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Yayoi Kusama
[Japanese Conceptual Artist, born in 1929]
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Yayoi Kusama Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Yayoi Kusama available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Home Page:
Yayoi Kusama Official Site
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Yayoi Kusama at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Silver Shoes, 1976/77
Guggenheim Museum, New York City No. 2. J.B., 1960
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968
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
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Baby Carriage
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin No. 62.A.A.A., 1962
Centraal Museum Database, Utrecht, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Summer #1, #2, 1985
Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German) Photograph of the artist from a 2007 exhibition
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 10 works from this museum and 3 more from the National Museum of Art in Osaka
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York Silvery Sea (aka Accumulation), 1981-82
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Soul under the moon, 2002
Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas Dots Obsession, 1997 installation
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
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:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
NO!art Website Information about Yayoi Kusama's involvement with this late 1950s-early 1960s art movement
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.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine Artist Dossier -- "Kusama has long been critically recognized as a postwar innovator. Now, with an auction record and the backing of a powerhouse gallery, the market is connecting the dots."
Slate Magazine "The Order of Things: Art and anarchy at midcentury," article by Christopher Benfey
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Obsession gone dotty", brief 2000 review by Adrian Searle
Multimedia:
Walker Art Center, Minnesota Interview with the artist (RealAudio format)
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