James Turrell art links 

Original works by James Turrell available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 11 works online

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Light Inside, 1999

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Acro, Green, 1968

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

Art Tower Mito, Japan
Toward Unknown Light, installation

Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City
From the 2004 exhibition Design is not Art

De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Netherlands
Click "works in collection"

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Works from the Gemini G.E.L. prints online catalogue raisonné

Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
First Light

The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
The Deer Shelter

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)

 

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)

 

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Greenmuseum - A Virtual Environmental Art Museum

The BBC
james turrell, albion gallery

 

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
First Moment, 2003

ARTnews
"I Slept in Roden Crater"

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 16): James Turrell

The Art Newspaper
(Tip: Click "Zoom navigable", not the thumbnail, to get the largest image size)
"Battle lines drawn in case of art dealer Michael Hue-Williams vs James Turrell"

The New Yorker
"James Turrell at Pace Wildenstein", brief 2005 review by Peter Schjeldahl

 

PBS
Profile from art:21 - Art in the 21st Century

"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.   look inside James Turrell: Eclipse look inside James Turrell: The Other Horizon