Related Miniature Art Information - Last Updated: Dec. 15th, 2009
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* Contemporary Miniature Art Societies
* Miniature Art Resources, Shows & Books
* Miniature Art Collections
* Current Miniature Society Definitions of Miniature (new window/ website)
* 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 - artofwildlife.com, Caroline Hayes of the Hilliard Society - art-in-miniature.org, Don Shelton - portrait-miniature.blogspot.com and Christine Archibald - 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)
Italy
- Turin: The Civic Museum of Ancient Art in Palazzo Madama
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: Fundaci�n L�zaro 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
- Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
- District of Columbia: The National Portrait Gallery, Washington
- District of Columbia: Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Washington
- District of Columbia: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington (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
- Kentucky: The Speed Art Museum, Louisville
- Louisiana: Louisiana State Museum Visual Arts Collection, New Orleans
- Louisiana: New Orleans Museum of Art (The Latter-Schlesinger Collection)
- Louisiana: R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport
- 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
- Rhode Island: Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence
- 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
- Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee [NB Miniature collection not on general display]
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Active 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)
CPA: Cider Painters of America, Pennsylvania, USA
HS: Hilliard Society of Miniaturists, UK
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
RMS: The Royal Miniature Art Society, UK
SLM: Society of Limners, Miniaturists And Caligraphers, UK
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
• American Portrait Miniatures - by Dale T. Johnson
• American Portrait Miniatures - by Susan E. Strickler
• British Portrait Miniatures - by Graham Reynolds
• Exquisite Miniatures by Wes & Rachelle Siegrist - by Wes Siegrist
• European Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - by Graham Reynolds
• How to Paint Miniatures - by Robert Hughes & Elizabeth Johnson
• Looking for Eulabee Dix, The Illustrated Biography of An American Miniaturist - by Jo Ann Ridley
• Love and Loss, American Portrait & Mourning Miniatures - by Robin Jaffee Frank
• Miniature Art of Australia ~ Past and Present - by the Australian Society of Miniature Art Tasmania, Inc.
• Miniature Art Today - by Bede Zel Angle
• Miniature Painting: A Complete Guide to Techniques, Mediums, and Surfaces - by Joan Cornish Willies
• Miniatures: A Selection of Miniatures in the Ashmolean Museum - by Richard Walker
• Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide - by Daphne Foskett
• Painting Miniatures - by Elizabeth Davys Wood
• Perfect Likeness European and American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum - by Julie Aronson and Majorie E. Wieseman
• Portrait Miniatures - by Bill Mundy, RMS, MAA
• Portrait Miniatures 2 - by Bill Mundy, RMS, MAA
• Portrait Miniatures from the Daphne Foskett Collection - by Stephen Lloyd
• Portrait Miniatures Oriental by Bill Mundy, RMS, MAA
• The Artist's Workbook on Miniature Painting - by Joan Cornish Willies
• The Catalog of the Permanent Collection (MASF)
• The English Miniature - by John Murdoch, Jim Murrell, Patrick J. Noon & Roy Strong
• The Magic of Miniatures - by Jo Clay
• The Miniature Portrait Collection of the Carolina Art Association - by Martha R. Severens
• The Portrait Miniature in England - by Katherine Coombs
• The Techniques of Painting Miniatures - by Sue Burton
• The Way How to Lymne - by Jim Murrell
• The World of Nature in Miniature; Paintings by Wes & Rachelle Siegrist - by Wes Siegrist
• Timeless Treasures VHS/ DVD Video presentation from Miniature Art Society of Florida
• Wallace Collection Catalogue of Miniatures - by Graham Reynolds
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.
MINIATURE SHOW LISTINGS & CONTACT INFORMATION:
- Show listings at the Hilliard Society of Miniaturists website
- Show listings at MiniArt Supply website
- Show listings at The Association of Miniature Artists website
MINIATURE ART FORUMS:
- Yahoo Groups Miniature Art Forum
- WetCanvas Miniature Art Forum
MISCELLANEOUS:
•Essays featured inside the book,Exquisite Miniatures by Wes & Rachelle Siegrist, courtesy of Traditional Fine Arts Organization, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering education in American art through advocacy, grants, publication and research.
- Video presentation from the Luce Foundation Center for American Art on portrait miniatures.
- 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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