Related Miniature Art Information - Last Updated: April 10th, 2008
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* Contemporary Miniature Art Societies
* Miniature Art Resources & Books
* Miniature Art Collections
* Revival Period Miniature Art Societies and Organizations (new window/ website)
* Miniature Art Comments and Statements (new page)
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Miniature Art Collections: ~This list was compiled by Wes Siegrist, Caroline Hayes of the Hilliard Society (www.art-in-miniature.org), Don Shelton at portrait-miniature.blogspot.com and Christine Archibald at archibaldminiatures.com. Thanks as well to individuals that have offered suggestions and additions and especially again to Caroline for organizing the list by location!
Australia
- Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia
- New South Wales: Art Gallery of New South Wales
- New South Wales: Heritage Collection, Nelson Meers FoundationState library of NSW, Sydney
- Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Queensland: Queensland Art Gallery
- Tasmania: State Library of Tasmania Miniatures Collection, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart
- Victoria: National Gallery of Victoria
Austria
- Vienna: National Library of Austria
Vienna: The Albertina Collection
Canada
- Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Ontario: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
- Ontario: The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
England
- Aberdeen: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
- Aylesbury: Waddesdon Manor
- Barnard Castle: Bowes Museum
- Bath: Holburne Museum of Art
- Birmingham: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
- Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum Miniature Portrait Collection
- Grantham: Belvoir Castle
- London: The British Museum
- London: The Gilbert Collection of enamel miniatures
- London: The National Maritime Museum
- London: The National Portrait Gallery
- London: The Victoria and Albert Museum
- London: The Wallace Collection
- Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
- Rotherham: Welbeck Abbey
- Windsor: The Royal Collection at Windsor Castle
- York: Castle Howard
France
- Chantilly: Condé Museum
- Paris: Musée de Louvre, Miniatures Collection
Germany
- Celle: The Tansey Collection of Miniatures
- Winterthur: The Winterthur Museum and Country Estate
India
- Bombay: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalya Museum
Ireland
- Dublin: The Chester Beatty Library
- Dublin: Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (The Book of Kells)
Mexico
- Mexico City: The National History Museum of Anthropology
Netherlands
- The Hague: Mauritshuis
- Amsterdam: House of Orange-Nassau Historic Collections Trust
- Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum
Poland
- Warsaw: The National Museum in Warsaw
Portugal
- Lisbon: Museu Nacional De Arte Antiga
Russia
- St. Petersburg: The Hermitage Museum
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Scotland
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
- Edinburgh: Clan Leslie Charitable Trust
Spain
- Madrid: Fundación Lázaro Galdiano Museo
Sweden
- Stockholm: State Museum
Switzerland
- Geneva: The Patek Museum [watch museum with small collection of miniature portraits]
- Winterthur: Museum Briner und Kern Miniature Portrait Collection
Turkey
- Istanbul: The Topkapi Palace, Turkey
United States of America
- California: The Pasadena Historical Museum, Pasadena (California Society of Miniature Painters Collection, 1911-1972)
- California: Huntington Library San Marino
- Colorado: The Berger Collection of British Art, Denver
- Connecticut: The Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Connecticut: The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
- Connecticut: Stamford Historical Society: Anson Dickinson Collection, Stamford
- Connecticut: Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield
- District of Columbia: The National Portrait Gallery, Washington
- District of Columbia: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA (Eulabee Dix)
- District of Columbia: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
- Florida: Governor's Mansion, Tallahassee
- Florida: The Clearwater East Library, Clearwater (Two cases of the Miniature Art Society of Florida's Permanent Collection. Note that the entire collection is displayed annually at the January MASF Exhibition)
- Illinois: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
- Indiana: The Historical Museum of the Wabash Valley, Terre Haute
- Indiana: The Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute
- Louisiana: Louisiana State Museum Visual Arts Collection, New Orleans
- Louisiana: New Orleans Museum of Art (The Latter-Schlesinger Collection)
- Maryland: Maryland Historical Society
- Massachusetts: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
- Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
- Massachusetts: The Mead Art Museum, Amherst
- Massachusetts: The Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
- Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society
- Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
- New York: The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany
- New York: The Henry Luce III Center for the study of American Culture, New York
- New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- New York: The Morgan Library & Museum
- North Carolina: The Biltmore Estate, Asheville
- Ohio: The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
- Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art (Edward B Greene Collection)
- Ohio: Butler Institute, Youngstown
- Oklahoma: The Woolaroc Ranch, Museum, & Wildlife Preserve, Tulsa
- Oklahoma: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa
- Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
- Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania: The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia
- South Carolina: Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, USA
- Texas: Caroline A. Ross collection at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Tennessee: The Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville
- Utah: The Utah Museum of Fine Arts,Salt Lake City
- Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
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Contemporary Miniature Art Societies and Groups
For more details on the various modern societies please visit the Hilliard Society's website: www.art-in-miniature.org. To view information on all of the societies and organizations involved in the Revival Period please see: Miniature Art Societies and Organizations of the Revival Period 1896-present day.
AMA: The Association of Miniature Artists (worldwide)
ASMA(NSW): Australian Society of Miniature Art, Inc.(NSW)
ASMA(Tas): Australian Society of Miniature Art (Tasmania)
ASMA(Vic): Australian Society of Miniature Art (Victoria)
AVIT: St. Petersburg, Russia
British Watercolor Society And Society Of Miniaturists, UK
CPA: Cider Painters of America, Pennsylvania, USA
HS: Hilliard Society of Miniaturists, UK
IMAS: Israel Miniature Art Society
MAA: The Miniature Artists of America
MASF: Miniature Art Society of Florida, USA
MASSA: Miniature Art Society of South Africa
MPSGS: The Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington, DC, USA
NCSAM: Northern California Society of Arts in Miniature, Mariposa, Ca, USA
NMMAS: New Mexico Miniature Arts Society, New Mexico, USA
OMAS: Oceanside Miniature Art Society, BC, Canada
RMS: The Royal Miniature Art Society, UK
SLM: Society of Limners, Miniaturists And Caligraphers, UK
STMAS: South Texas Miniature Art Society - c/o Art Center of Corpus Christi, TX, USA
WCSMA: West Coast Society of Miniature Art, California, USA
WFM: The World Federation of Miniaturists
The Yahoo Miniature Art Forum
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Miniature Art Resources & Books
1. The Techniques of Painting Miniatures - by Sue Burton
2. How to Paint Miniatures - by Robert Hughes & Elizabeth Johnson
3. Miniature Painting: A Complete Guide to Techniques, Mediums, and Surfaces - by Joan Cornish Willies
4. Painting Miniatures - by Elizabeth Davys Wood
5. Looking for Eulabee Dix, The Illustrated Biography of An American Miniaturist - by Jo Ann Ridley
6. Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide - by Daphne Foskett
7. Love and Loss, American Portrait & Mourning Miniatures - by Robin Jaffee Frank
8. The Catalog of the Permanent Collection (MASF)
9. Timeless Treasures VHS Video presentation from Miniature Art Society of Florida.
10. American Portrait Miniatures - by Dale T. Johnson
11. Portrait Miniatures - by Bill Mundy, RMS, MAA
12. Portrait Miniatures 2 - by Bill Mundy, RMS, MAA
13. The Way How to Lymne - by Jim Murrell
14. European Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - by Graham Reynolds
15. The English Miniature - by John Murdoch, Jim Murrell, Patrick J. Noon & Roy Strong
16. Miniature Art of Australia ~ Past and Present - by the Australian Society of Miniature Art Tasmania, Inc.
Online Links for Miniature Art:
SUPPLIES:
- MiniArt Supply - Supplies for artists of miniatures & other fine detail work. (list most all contemporary miniature art shows)
- Polymers Plus - Supplies, books, frames for artists of miniatures.
- welovewood.com: Magnifying Glasses
- The Brass Binnacle: Magnifying Glasses
DEALERS & COLLECTORS & GALLERIES:
- Artists and Ancestors - A Miniature Portrait Collection.
- Christine Archibald Portrait Miniatures - Dealer and collector of fine portrait miniatures.
- Portrait Miniatures from Barry Hayes - Dealer and collector of fine portrait miniatures.
- Llewellyn Alexander (Fine Paintings) LTD - One of the foremost galleries in the world selling miniatures and silhouettes in Oil and Watercolour by Living Artists.
- Historic Miniature Portraits for purchase via Elle Shushan
- British and European Historic Miniature Portraits via Judy & Brian Harden Antiques
- Wiebold Studio - Restoration and Framing of Miniatures. Has notes on period framing with reproductions available for purchase.
FORUMS:
- Yahoo Groups Miniature Art Forum
- WetCanvas Miniature Art Forum
- Miniature Art Shows and General Reference Site
MISCELLANEOUS:
- Information on the substrate Ivorine from Nancy Still of Miniartsupply.biz (PDF 309 KB)
- Wikipedia Section on Miniature Art
- Miniature Artists of America Traveling Exhibition: The MAA has four cases of miniature paintings that is available free of charge to Museums, Societies and Group Exhibitions. The collection, which contains two of our paintings, is exquisitely displayed in black cases under glass. The MAA uses this exhibit for educational purposes. Please contact Wes Siegrist directly if you are interested and we will have an informational package mailed to you.
- Wikipedia: The Book of Kells
- Answers.com: Information on Portrait Miniatures
- "The Art of the American Miniature Portrait" essay by Peter J. Baldaia
- Brief History of Persian Miniature Painting
- Brief History on Moslem Miniature Painting
- Article on European Portrait Miniature Painters
- Article on Hans Holbein/ Miniatures/ The Wallace Collection, London, England.
- Article on miniatures/ Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- ArtCult's Miniature page - Sales results of historic minis.
- Les heures de Turin-Milan - Miniatures by Jan van Eyck
- Catalogue of collections in French museums
- Picture Australia
- The Making of Russian Lacquer Boxes
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