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Original works by Louise Nevelson available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 works by Louise Nevelson
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2 works by Louise Nevelson online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Louise Nevelson at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Untitled, 1963
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Sky Cathedral, 1958
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Lunar Landscape Wall
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Untitled, wood and black paint, 1972
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dream Houses XXXIII, 1972
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Black Zag Z
Davistown Museum, Liberty, Maine
Unidentified sculpture
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
122 works, about 25 of which are online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Atmosphere and Environment XI (work #2 shown)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish) 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Garden of Prix, 1959
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Night Presence II, 1976
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Mountain Figure
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Louise Nevelson at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Royal Winds, 1960
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Click "online feature" for more about the artist and her work
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Untitled
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Night Zag III
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas
Night Tree
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution 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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
4 works documented
Miscellaneous Sites:
Gihon Foundation
Rain Garden II, 1977
Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory
Saint Peter's Church, New York City
Chapel designed by Louise Nevelson. The image is only viewable in a scaled-down image; to see it full-sized, click here.
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Louise Nevelson 
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Louise Nevelson at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1964 interview from the Oral History project
Louise Nevelson at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1972 interview from the Oral History project
Louise Nevelson at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Louise Nevelson papers online
Time Magazine
"Sculpture's Queen Bee", 1981 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Tsarina of Total Immersion", 1980 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Night and Silence, Who Is There?", 1977 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including Nevelson's Sky Garden, 1959-64
(click "explore 15 works" when you get past the intro)
"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.
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search inside
Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life
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