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William Tylee Ranney
[German-born American Painter, 1813-1857]
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William Tylee Ranney Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by William Tylee Ranney available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 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)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
9 paintings by Ranney
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Wild Duck Shooting/On the Wing, ca.1850
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Boone's First View of Kentucky, 1849
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Halt on the Prairie, ca.1850
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Crossing the Ferry - Scene on the Peedee, ca.1846
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
First News of the Battle of Lexington, 1847
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
Rail Shooting, 1856/59 (with William Sydney Mount)
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
The Pipe of Friendship, 1857-59
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
The Scouting Party, 1851
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Wounded Hound, 1850
Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The Pioneers, 1850 (click the "Westward Expansion" link)
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)
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:
William Tylee Ranney at The Athenaeum 
10 works online by Ranney
California State University WorldImages Database 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Western hero: Visions and Revisions
Articles and Reference Sites:
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
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
"William Ranney Rediscovered" (2007)
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