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| Kitagawa Utamaro art links |
Kitagawa Utamaro Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
3 woodblock prints online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Tokyo National Museum, Japan
2 works online
Wetmore Print Collection at Connecticut College
1 print online
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
8 works online
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Girl dressing a companion's hair
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The courtesan Hanazuma
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
The courtesan Hinakoto
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
The poetess Ono-no-Komachi
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Two Women Resting by Palanquin, ca.1800
Chester Beatty Library and Galleries, Dublin, Ireland
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
The Courtesan Ichikawa of the Matsuba Establishment
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French) 
Les curieuses
Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne, Germany
Okita
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The lovers Gompachi and Komurasaki
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Kitagawa Utamaro at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel
Tobacco & Salt Museum, Tokyo
4 prints
University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, Missouri
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
6 works online when last checked
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Artelino Ukiyo-e Signatures
Signatures of Ukiyo-e Artists
Includes a brief description of how to interpret a Ukiyo-e signature
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:
Google Art Project
Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery 
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
J. Noel Chiappa's Home Page
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Viewing Japanese Prints
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Kitagawa Utamaro 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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. | |
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Utamaro: Portraits from the Floating World
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