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Man Ray Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Man Ray available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
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)
Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York
12 "Rayographs"
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 13 works online
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
103 works online by Man Ray
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Pensore and Man Ray
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
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!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Man Ray at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
The Black Tray, 1914
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Clock Wheels
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Bird from Nowhere (Oiseau de nullepart)
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Untitled (The Three Graces)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Space Writing (Self-Portrait), gelatin silver print, 1935
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Virginia Woolf, gelatin silver print, 1934
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Electricité, 1931
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
La Tete, 1931
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
9 works online
Falmouth Art Gallery, England
2 works online
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German) 
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
Hammer Museum, California
Letters: PGSJOMC, 1925
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!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
International Center of Photography, New York City
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Massachusetts
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
Place de la Concorde
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Lippen an Lippen, ca.1930
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
4 works by Man Ray
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Works from the Gemini G.E.L. prints online catalogue raisonné
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
3 works online
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Diderot's Harpsichord or The Merchant of Venice, 1948
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Motif perpétuel, 1971
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Cadeau
Man Ray at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
State Museums of Berlin
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Untitled (Self-Portrait with Camera), 1930
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Objet Indestructible
University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
Lampshade, aluminum, 1919
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
After lunch, watercolor, 1914
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)
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:
Man Ray
Website about Man Ray and his artworks
Man Ray at The Athenaeum
3 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
2 photographs of the artist
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Man Ray Photo
Archive of hundreds of photographs and artworks, operated by the Man Ray Trust
AnalisisFotografia (in Spanish)
Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo
Filmography from the Internet Movie Database
PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
s u r r e a l i s t . c o m
5 works online
Studio Pesci
Photographs from a 2005 exhibition
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
The Boat
The Village Voice
Erotique voilée (Meret Oppenheim, 1933
Tout sur Catherine Deneuve (in French)
Photograph of Deneuve by Man Ray
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Man Ray 
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
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
Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Legend, 1916
Art + Auction Magazine
Artist Dossier -- "The Surrealist icon pushed the boundaries of photography. His experimental prints are now some of his most coveted."
PhotoQuotes
Resource Library Magazine
Man Ray's Paris Portraits -- 1921-1939
Tate Magazine
Indestructable Object, 1923
Tate Magazine
Man Ray Laid Bare
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Rrose Sélavy, 1921
"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. | |
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Man Ray
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Man Ray: Photographs, Paintings, Objects
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Photographs by Man Ray: One Hundred Five Works, 1920-1934
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Man Ray's Celebrity Photos
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Man Ray: Cameo
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Self Portrait: Man Ray
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