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[Spanish Surrealist Painter and Sculptor, 1893-1983]
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The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.
| | - Joan Miró, 1958, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art |
Joan Miró Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
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)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 14 works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Alicia, 1965-67 (with Josep Llorens Artigas)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
The Potato, 1928
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Painting (Circus), 1927
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Miró's Black and Red Series
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
From the Barcelona series, 1944
(In the "Lithograph" section)
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
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
Pilar & Joan Miro Foundation and Museum, Mallorca, Spain
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The Toppling (Le Renversement)
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Spokesman of the Birds Plunges into the Night
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Women, Bird, and Snake in Front of the Sun (Femmes et oisseau et serpent devant le soleil)
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Poster
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Untitled
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
2 works online
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Composition, 1937
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Caixa Galicia Foundation, Vigo, Spain (in Spanish) 
(Works are shown at the right, under "Obras")
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Fusee
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Triptych
Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French)
Information about a 2004 exhibition
Céret Museum of Modern Art, France (in French)
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Shape of Color: Joan Miró's Painted Sculpture
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Figure Walking, etching
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Partie de Campagne II, 1976
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Dancer Listening to Organ in a Gothic Cathedral
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
Fundación Telefónica, Chile (in Spanish)
Also click on "Esculturas" and "Obra grafica" at the left to see sculptures and graphic work, respectively.
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
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!
Indiana State University Art Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Lille Metropole Musee d'Art Moderne, France (in French)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The King's Jester
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Figure
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Head, 1976
Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy (in Italian)
Senza titolo (Figure biomorfiche ed astrali)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museo Patio Herreriano de Valladolid, Spain (in Spanish)
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Abstract Composition
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Monsieur et Madame, 1969
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
22 works by Miro
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Painting, 1953
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Danseuse espagnole, 1924
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Standing Nude, 1918
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Joan Miró: Fantastic Universe"
Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Signs And Configurations, 1936
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2006 exhibition
The Albertina, Vienna
2 works online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
4 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Micro-site for a 2008 exhibition, Miró: Earth
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
A Drop of Dew Falling from the Wing of a Bird Awakens Rosalie Asleep in the Shade of a Cobweb, 1939
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas
Personnages Oiseaux
Grande Maternite
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)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Joan Miro 
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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Femme, 1971. Bronze
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
The Semiotics of Desire
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
The Art Story
The New York Observer
"Late Miró Sculpture Bursts With Comedy, Lively Genitalia", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting, 1927-1937", 2008 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Gillian Ayers on Joan Miró's The Bird Awakened by the Sharp Scream of the Azure Blue Flying Over the Breathing Plain, 1968
"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.
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Miro
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Joan Miro (Basic Art)
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Miro Lithographs (Dover)
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Joan Miro Foundation Guidebook
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