M.C. Escher Online (original) (raw)

M.C. Escher Works Online

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Original works by M.C. Escher available for purchase at art galleries worldwide

Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:

Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago NEW!

Notable SiteEscher in Het Paleis, The Hague, Netherlands

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
M.C. Escher -- Life and Work

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Many works

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

San Jose Museum of Art, California
Several images from a 2007 exhibition

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:

Notable SiteM.C. Escher at The Art Renewal Center
10 works online

Notable SiteM.C. Escher at The Artchive

M.C. Escher at CGFA

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)

eTapetnet Desktop Wallpapers

Humanities Web

M.C. Escher at ImageNETion

RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!

Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions

Xaya Image Scans

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Miscellaneous Sites:

Notable SiteEscher Art Collection

Notable SiteM.C. Escher Foundation

Notable SitePágina de M.C. Escher (mostly in Spanish)

Notable SiteThe Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher
A discussion of the mathematical logic behind some of Escher's works

Notable SiteThe World of Escher

Notable SiteZvi Har'El's M.C. Escher Collection

John Prazak's Inventors & Designers Page
3D models based on a few of the works of M.C. Escher

Sara Joan's Digital Page

Articles and Reference Sites:

Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on M.C. Escher
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Notable SiteRKD Netherlands Institute for Art History

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies

Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation