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Mark Tansey
[American Painter, born in 1949]
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[Tansey was] destined to absorb art history in the same way that Michelangelo - who suckled marble dust from his wet nurse, who was a stonemason's wife - was destined to sculpt.
| | - a slightly over-the-top assessment from Thomas Sokolowski, in Art News (Summer 1994) |
Mark Tansey Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Mark Tansey available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Mark Tansey at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's database
Broad Art Foundation
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
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:
Mark Tansey at The Artchive
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Infobloom
Untitled, 1988
Phil Grey's Home Page
The Innocent Eye Test
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Triumph of the New York School (with artists identified)
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
Resource Library Magazine
Action Painting II, 1984
Resource Library Magazine
Chess Game, 1982
Resource Library Magazine
Homage to Frank Lloyd Wright, 1984
"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 Picture in Question: Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation
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