Alvan Fisher Online (original) (raw)
Alvan Fisher Works Online
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Original works by Alvan Fisher available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Watercolor collection online
Drawings collection online
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts
Roadside MeetingCleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
4 paintings onlineFive College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourselfHunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
The White Pony, 1838Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
New-York Historical Society
Niagara: The American Falls, ca.1821Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
1 work online: View of Salem from Gallows Hill (row 4/image 4). Click on the little "i" on the detail images to bring up information about the works.Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Fishing in New Hampshire, 1852Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Hunters in a Landscape, ca.1830Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Hunters in a Stream with Dog, ca.1830The Huntington Library, California
Virtual Museum of Canada
The Great Horseshoe Fall, Niagara, 1820Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
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)
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:
11 works online by Fisher
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition
Complete article, now in the public domain. Obviously, some facts may have changed since 1911.
