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Frederick Sommer
[Italian-born American Photographer, 1905-1999]
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Frederick Sommer Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Frederick Sommer available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Sommer
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Arizona Landscape, 1945
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
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Gold Mine, Arizona, gelatin silver print, 1943
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Max Ernst, gelatin silver print, 1946
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!
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Cut Paper, 1977
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Paracelsus, 1957
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
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:
Masters of Photography
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Frederick Sommer (1905-1999)
Articles and Reference Sites:
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
"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. | |
search inside
The Art of Frederick Sommer
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