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Arthur Rackham Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Self-Portrait, 1934
The Huntington Library, California
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
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:
Liam's Pictures from Old Books Illustrations from the book Some British Ballads
Arthur Rackham at The Art Renewal Center
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Art Passions
Faeries at LaLa's Land
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Arthur Rackham Society
Alice in Wonderland Illustrators
American Art Archives
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Two pages of illustrations from Grimm's Fairy Tales
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project Tales from Shakespeare, illustrated by Authur Rackham
Ginevra 2 images
Nina Auerbach's Homepage
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Rocbo Culture (in French)
The Camelot Project Arthurian illustrations
The Internet Sacred Text Archive Complete reproduction of The Ring of the Niblung, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (Click "List of Illustrations" for quick access to Rackham's art)
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Arthur Rackham 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 Biographical info
Bud Plant Illustrated Books Biography with sample images
"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. | |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring"
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Traditional Irish Fairy Tales
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The Sleeping Beauty
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