William Trost Richards Works Online
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Original works by William Trost Richards available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio Land's End, Cornwall, 1888
William Trost Richards at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Glade at Oldmixon, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1881/90
William Trost Richards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  William Trost Richards in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
William Trost Richards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Watercolor collection online
William Trost Richards at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 2 works by William Trost Richards
William Trost Richards at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Mount Desert, 1866
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) In the Woods, 1860
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Morning, Sea View
Brandywine River Museum, Pennsylvania
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
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)
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California Plant Study (And Some Fell Among Thorns), 1862
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina Untitled (Seascape)
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages, Stony Brook, New York (Click on the object number for the artwork title & other information)
William Trost Richards in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Many works online
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City 14 works online
New-York Historical Society June Woods (Germantown), 1864
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Trevalga Head, Cornwall, 1885
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) 3 works by William Trost Richards online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York A Painter's Sampler, ca.1860
Seattle Art Museum Farmland in Chester Co., Pa.
William Trost Richards at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
William Trost Richards at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Spartanburg County Museum of Art, Spartanburg Coast of Bude, watercolor, 1889
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image Seascape with Distant Lighthouse, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1873
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
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:
Art Renewal Center
CGFA 
The Athenaeum  146 works online by Richards
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine "Dealers' Insights: William Trost Richards" (2008)
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine The Wood Path, 1856
Resource Library Magazine
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