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There is a tradition of emphasizing those key areas of the face which control likeness, while the skin, neck, hair and background are not considered of primary importance in the reading of a portrait. I wanted to make those areas almost as interesting and important as the more symbolic areas of the face.
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Original works by Chuck Close available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
2 daguerreotypes by Chuck Close online
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Georgia, 1984
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Chuck Close
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Alex, woodcut, 1991
Roy II, 1994
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Maquette for April, 1990
Chuck Close at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Frank, acrylic on canvas, 1969
Frank, lithograph, 1981
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
5 works by Chuck Close online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
3 works
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Self-Portrait, 2000
(In the "Screenprint" section)
Chuck Close at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Fanny/Fingerpainting, 1985
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Bob
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Self-Portrait, 1996 (Zoom)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Untitled Torso (K.W.)
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.
Bill, 1990
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Keith, 1972
Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, Texas
Mini-site for a 2003 exhibition
Broad Art Foundation
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine NEW!
Self-Portrait, 2006
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire NEW!
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Lorna I, 1996
Chuck Close in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (in German) 
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Leslie
Miami Art Museum, Florida
Page for a 2004 exhibition. There is a pretty good self-portrait in .PDF format if you click on "gallery notes"
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin NEW!
Nancy
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Cindy
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
National Academy of Design, New York City
Self Portrait, 1988
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri NEW!
Keith, 1970
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid
Information about a 2007 exhibition. See a virtual walkthrough of the show here.
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Keith, 1970
Chuck Close at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Georgia/Fingerprint I, 1984-85
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Phil III, 1982
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Jud, 1982
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Leslie
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Professional Tools:
Artprice
Pictures from Image Archives:
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Self-Portrait
Chuck Close at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
Photograph of an unidentified painting from the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
ArtLex
Keith, mezzotint, 1972
ArtsNet Minnesota
Blind Spot Magazine NEW!
Crown Point Press
Hyperrealism and Photorealism
Museo della Fotografia (in Italian)
Style.com - The Online Home of Vogue and W Magazine
5-page article about Philip Glass's ballet inspired by Chuck Close's life and work
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
University of Washington, Seattle
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
See link 40, and link 41 for an extreme close-up of the same painting
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Chuck Close
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 75-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
Art + Auction Magazine NEW!
John, 1971–72 (from a Photo gallery accompanying the article Keeping it Real)
ARTnews
Bomb Magazine
Interview with the artist Joe Zucker, conducted by Chuck Close
Frieze Magazine NEW!
Review (from issue 30): Chuck Close and Tom Friedman
Resource Library Magazine
Slate Magazine
"No Cigar: The creation of Chuck Close, art-world hero," article by Christopher Benfey
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Chuck Close's MoMA Show? You Could Do a Lot Worse
The Washington Post
Time Magazine
"Close, Closer, Closest", 1981 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Close Encounters", 1998 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Blowing Up the Closeup: No painter was ever more aptly named than Chuck Close", 1977 article by Robert Hughes
University of Washington Alumni Magazine
Article on Close's life as a UW student, his career, and the blood clot which left him partially paralyzed
Multimedia:
Google Video
30-minute documentary: The Artist Studio: Chuck Close
Princeton University, New Jersey
Scroll down to [b]October 9, 2003[/b] for a video in multiple formats of Chuck Close lecturing at Princeton. The length isn't indicated but it looks like about a half-hour or so.
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS) NEW!
A conversation with artist Chuck Close, from 1998
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS) NEW!
Chuck Close participates in a 2000 discussion about Pace Wildenstein gallery
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS) NEW!
A conversation with Chuck Close, from 2007
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