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Rachel Whiteread
[British Installation Artist, born in 1963]
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Rachel Whiteread Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Rachel Whiteread available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Guggenheim Berlin This space is now closed, but some information about past exhibitions remains online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City 2 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Untitled (Fire Escape), 2002
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate Gallery, London, UK Rachel Whiteread was awarded the Turner Prize in 1993
Tate Gallery, London, UK Many works online
Tate Gallery, London, UK Realmedia film documenting 2 of Whiteread's installations at the Tate
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway
Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City From the 2004 exhibition Design is not Art
Goetz Collection, Munich Untitled (Concave and Convex Beds), 1992
Hammer Museum, California Images from a 2010 exhibition: Rachel Whiteread Drawings
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri Mouseover for 2 works by Rachel Whiteread
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Twenty-five spaces, 1995
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK Herringbone Floor, 2001
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Search results for "Rachel Whiteread"
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 6 works online when last checked
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)
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:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtAngel Artist Projects Information about Whiteread's 1993-1994 project, House
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues 
British Council Arts Group
National Fine Art Education Digital Collection, UK
National Fine Art Education Digital Collection, UK
The Snow Show, Finland
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Photograph of the artist by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
UK Government Art Collection
Varo Registry of Women Artists
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
Artnet Magazine Untitled (Double Amber Bed), 1991
Artnet Magazine Untitled (Basement), 2001
Frieze Magazine "Rachel doesn't live here anymore -- On Rachel Whiteread's House"
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 31): Rachel Whiteread
Museo Magazine The Presence of Absence: Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (One-Hundred Spaces)
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Making memories", 2000 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Austere, silent and nameless: Whiteread's concrete tribute to victims of nazism", 2000 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "The cast show", 2001 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Whiteread's reminder of modernist ideals defies sentimentality", brief 2001 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "A view of a mind at work", 2005 article by Adrian Searle
The Village Voice "A Great Public Artist Is Diminished Indoors", 1999 article by Jerry Saltz
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
Multimedia:
Tate Channel Rachel Whiteread: Artist's Talk (2006)
"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
 Rachel Whiteread: House
look inside
 Rachel Whiteread: Looking Up
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