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Carleton Watkins
[American Photographer, 1829-1916]
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Carleton Watkins Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Carleton Watkins 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
67 works online by Watkins
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Photograph collection online
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
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
View from Camp Grove, Yosemite, 1861 (Zoom)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Carleton Watkins at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The Three Brothers, 4,480 feet, Yosemite Valley
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Yosemite Valley: Vernal and Nevada Falls from Glacier Point, photograph
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
The Wreck of the Viscata
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Devil's Slide Utah, U.P.R.R., albumen print, 1873-74
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
The Grizzly Giant
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
8 photographs online
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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
1 photograph online: City of San Francisco (row 2/image 4). Click on the little "i" on the detail images to bring up information about the works.
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
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:
5.000 Meisterwerke der Fotografie (in German) 
Masters of Photography
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Stereoviews of Carleton Watkins
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) 
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Resource Library Magazine
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception at SFMOMA
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