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William Wegman
[American Photographer, born in 1943]
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William Wegman Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by William Wegman available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Home Page:
Wegman World
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 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
William Wegman at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Stuart Collection of Sculpture at the University of California
La Jolla Vista View Overlook (with photos showing its proposal, construction and installation)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Evolution of a Bottle in Space, 1999
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Info about a recent Wegman exhibition: Funney/Strange
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
Cubic Chip 1/30
Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
Kyphosified, 2000
Hammer Museum, California
Still from Deodorant, 1972
Hammer Museum, California
Reading Two Books, 1971
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Stormy Night, 1972
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by William Wegman
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Reflectional, photogravure, 2002
William Wegman at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
Info about a 2007 exhibition: "William Wegman: Funney/Strange"
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
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:
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Blind Spot Magazine
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Witness - A Human Rights Charity
Collaborative work by Wegman and Sebastião Salgado, created in support of the charity
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
William Wegman: Drawing, Video, Painting, Photography
Resource Library Magazine
Golf Anyone?
Salon Magazine
Profile of the artist's career
The New Yorker
"William Wegman: Funney/Strange" at Brooklyn Museum, brief 2006 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Village Voice
"Dog Gone: Appreciating William Wegman, the Painter", 2003 article by Jerry Saltz
Multimedia:
PBS
Profile from art:21 - Art in the 21st Century
Video Data Bank: Video Art and Video Artists
Click on the videocamera icon to launch video (videos are fairly small)
"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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Wegmanology
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Chip Wants a Dog
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Fay
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William Wegman: Fashion Photographs
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William Wegman Polaroids
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William Wegman Puppies 2003 Wall Calendar
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Man's Best Friend
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