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Robert Morris Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Robert Morris available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
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)
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
3 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
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
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
3 works by Morris
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Robert Morris at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Untitled
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Untitled
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Untitled
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
3 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Conundrums, soft-ground etching and aquatint, 1989-90
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Conundrums, soft-ground etching and aquatint, 1989-90
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Untitled Sculpture Piece
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
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!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
Labyrinth, 1999
Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Italy
(Click "English" at the top of the page to change the default language)
Senza Titolo, 1996
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Portal
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Untitled, 1964
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Click on "M" and page forward for "Morris"
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
Untitled, 1980
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 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Robert Morris 
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
Robert Morris at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1968 interview from the Oral History project
Multimedia:
Video Data Bank: Video Art and Video Artists
Click on the videocamera icon to launch video (videos are fairly small)
"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
Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris
look inside
Robert Morris and Angst
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