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Herbert Ferber Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Herbert Ferber at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Composition, 1954
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Game No. 2, 1950
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Herbert Ferber at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Homage to Piranesi, 1962-63
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
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)
Fairfield Auction, Newtown, Connecticut -- Highlights of Past Sales
"Sail" painting (for the original page, click here then scroll down)
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)
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
Herbert Ferber at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1962 interview from the Oral History project
Herbert Ferber at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1968 interview from the Oral History project
Herbert Ferber at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1981 interview from the Oral History project
The New York Observer
"'New Sculptor' Ferber Brought Love of Nudes To Curvy Abstracts", article by Hilton Kramer
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