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Hiram Powers: Charity, ca.1871
Photograph by Ralph Daily, Creative Commons licensed
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Hiram Powers Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Hiram Powers 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)
Hiram Powers at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Greek Slave
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
The Last of the Tribes, 1867-74
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Sculpture collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Hiram Powers at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The Greek Slave
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Bust of the "Greek Slave"
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
George Washington, 1849
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Proserpine
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
7 sculptures online
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Greek Slave
Glencairn Museum, Pennsylvania
Proserpine
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Eve Disconsolate, marble, 1871
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Francis Granger
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
Bust of Greek Slave
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Proserpine
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
John C. Calhoun
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Greek Slave, 1849
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
The Greek Slave, 1847
U.S. Senate Art Collection
Benjamin Franklin
U.S. Senate Art Collection
John Marshall
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Proserpine
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
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
(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:
Hiram Powers at The Art Renewal Center
Hiram Powers in the Web Gallery of Art
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Bust of Andrew Jackson
The History Project at U.C. Davis
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Victorian Web
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
The Greek Slave (includes many 19th-century writings about this renowned work)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Hiram Powers 
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
The Greek Slave, 1841-43
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"Hiram Powers' Technique: The Art of Seizing a Likeness in Marble" (2007)
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Hiram Powers and the Sintons", an illustrated article in .PDF format
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