Bruce Nauman Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Bruce Nauman available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
From Hand To Mouth, 1967
South America Triangle, 1981
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Many works online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Window or wall sign
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Violins / Violence
Stuart Collection of Sculpture at the University of California
Vices and Virtues, installation documented by numerous photographs
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Information about a 2009 exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway
Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands
(to switch to English, click "english" at the top of the page)
2 works online
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Having Fun/Good Life/Symptoms, 1985
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Model for Trench and Four Buried Passages, 1977
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Animal Pyramid, 1989
Hammer Museum, California
Bound to Fail, 1966-67/1970
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Double Poke in the Eye II, 1985
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany (in German) 
Still image from the video Violent Incident, 1986
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "N"
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
To see the text in English, click on "English", then "Collection", then on the artist name
Bruce Nauman in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Studies for Holograms (a-e), 1970
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museums of Geneva, Switzerland (in French)
Information about a 2005 exhibition
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, University Park, Illinois
House Divided, 1983
Bruce Nauman at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Live or Die (Red)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Henry Moore Bound to Fail
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Click "N" for "Nauman"
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Seven Figures, 1985
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(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)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Fox Wheel
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Inside Installations
Information from a research project into the care and administration of installation art
The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
(Get past the splash page, then click "Artists")
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
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: Bruce Nauman
ARTnews
Named as one of "The 10 Most Expensive Living Artists"
Deutsche Bank Artmag
Issue 14 has several articles about Bruce Nauman
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 66): Bruce Nauman
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 22): Bruce Nauman
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 36): Bruce Nauman
Frieze Magazine
"Hear here -- An interview with Bruce Nauman"
New Media Encyclopedia
A project sponsored by several museums of contemporary art
Bruce Nauman at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1980 interview from the Oral History project
The Art Newspaper
(Tip: Click "Zoom navigable", not the thumbnail, to get the largest image size)
2009 interview with the artist
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Inside the mind of Bruce Nauman", 2004 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Caught in a trap", 2006 article by Adrian Searle
The New Yorker
Video installation "Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage)", 2002 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Village Voice
"Wild Kingdom", 2002 article by Jerry Saltz
Time Magazine
"Vapid Wunderkind", 1973 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Being a Nuisance", 1995 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
PBS
Profile from art:21 - Art in the 21st Century
Video Data Bank: Video Art and Video Artists
Click on the videocamera icon to launch video (videos are fairly small)
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