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Louise Nevelson Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Louise Nevelson 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)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
3 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Louise Nevelson at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
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
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
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
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Sky Garden, 1971
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park at Florida International University, Miami
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Atmosphere and Environment XI (work #2 shown)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
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.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Black Zag CC
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Garden of Prix, 1959
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Mountain Figure
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Royal Winds, 1960
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Click "online feature" for more about the artist and her work
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Untitled
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas
Night Tree
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)
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
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
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 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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Maquette for Monumental Sculpture VII, 1977
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
The Art Story
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.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life
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