Eadweard Muybridge art links 

Original works by Eadweard Muybridge available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!
Many works online

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Running (Galloping), 1878
The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, 1878

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!  

Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database

Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" Jumping a hurdle, black horse

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Photograph collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City  
Includes biographical information about the artist

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
2 works online

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!

Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  

Eadweard Muybridge at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Akron Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)

Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California
Leland Stanford Junior on His Horse Gypsy, 1879

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Animal Locomotion, 1885

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online

Philadelphia Museum of Art   NEW!

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Elephant Walking

Eadweard Muybridge at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Self-portrait, albumen silver prints, 1880s

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Plate from Animal Locomotion, 1887

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
Hand Movements & Plate 530 from Animal Locomotion

 

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)

 

Flickr Photo Sharing
Plates from Muybridge's Animal Locomotion

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

5.000 Meisterwerke der Fotografie (in German)  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Masters of Photography  

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

USC Annenberg School for Communication

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A Muybridge Chronology

Photo Seminars Online

Tesseract: An experimental film about Eadweard Muybridge

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Eadweard Muybridge  
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

 

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Several short films recreated from Muybridge's motion experiments

"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.   search inside River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West look inside Animals in Motion look inside The Human Figure in Motion look inside Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, Vol.1 look inside Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, Vol.3 look inside The Male and Female Figure in Motion look inside Horses and Other Animals in Motion