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Martin Puryear
[African-American Sculptor, born in 1941]
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Martin Puryear Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Martin Puryear available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Martin Puryear at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Untitled, 1997
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
That Profile, 1999
Martin Puryear at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
4 works online when last checked
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Martin Puryear"
Martin Puryear at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Martin Puryear
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Untitled, 1997
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Blue Blood
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Three Holes, 2002
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Untitled, 1985
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Self, 1978
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, University Park, Illinois
Bodark Arc, 1982
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Avey, 2000
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
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:
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Untitled
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Miscellaneous Sites:
PBS
Superb reproductions of a couple of works plus a photograph of the artist.
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Martin Puryear 
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.
The New Yorker
"Martin Puryear retrospective at MOMA", 2007 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Time Magazine
"Delight in a Shaping Hand", 1992 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Martin Puryear", 2001 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
PBS
Profile from art:21 - Art in the 21st Century
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including Puryear's Dumb Luck, 1990
(click "explore 15 works" when you get past the intro)
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