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Weegee
[Hungarian-born American Photographer, 1899-1968]
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Weegee Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Weegee available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 6 works online by Weegee
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Weegee at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
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
International Center of Photography, New York City
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by Weegee
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel At the Palace Theater, 1955
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:
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Life and Photography of Weegee
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
ARTnews Weegee's surreal portrait of Martha Raye
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 27): Weegee
"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
Naked City
look inside
Weegee's New York Photographs, 1935-1960
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