Hiram Powers Online (original) (raw)
Hiram Powers Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Hiram Powers available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Greek Slave
The Last of the Tribes, 1867-74
Sculpture collection online
Includes a biography of the artist
The Greek SlaveAddison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Bust of the "Greek Slave"Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
George Washington, 1849Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
ProserpineBrooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
7 sculptures onlineCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Greek SlaveGlencairn Museum, Pennsylvania
ProserpineHarvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourselfHudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Eve Disconsolate, marble, 1871Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Francis GrangerMiddlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
Bust of Greek SlaveMilwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
ProserpineNorth Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
John C. CalhounPhiladelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Greek Slave, 1849The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
The Greek Slave, 1847U.S. Senate Art Collection
Benjamin FranklinU.S. Senate Art Collection
John MarshallUniversity of Michigan Museum of Art
ProserpineWichita Art Museum, Kansas
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)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Bust of Andrew JacksonThe History Project at U.C. Davis
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
The Greek Slave (includes many 19th-century writings about this renowned work)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
The Greek Slave, 1841-43Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"Hiram Powers' Technique: The Art of Seizing a Likeness in Marble" (2007)Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Hiram Powers and the Sintons", an illustrated article in .PDF format
