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Robert Riggs
[American Painter and Printmaker, 1896-1970]
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Robert Riggs Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Robert Riggs available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
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)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Robert Riggs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Academy Art Museum, Maryland
Home Run, ca.1945
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
3 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
The Huntington Library, California
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
(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:
Robert Riggs at The Art Renewal Center
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Visual Telling of Stories
University Art Museum at the University of California
University Art Museum at the University of California
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) 
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
"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.
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look inside
The Lithographs of Robert Riggs: With a Catalogue Raisonne
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