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Alabama

Birmingham Museum of Art
2000 8th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35203
(205) 254-2565

Huntsville Museum of Art
Mobile Museum of Art
Museum of Mobile
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Alaska

Anchorage Museum of History & Art
University of Alaska Museum
Alaska State Museum (Juneau)

Arizona

Center for Creative Photography
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe)
Fleischer Museum (Scottsdale)
Museum of Northern Arizona (Flagstaff)
Phoenix Art Museum
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Scottsdale Center for The Arts
The Heard Museum (Phoenix)
Tucson Museum of Art

Arkansas

Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock)

California

Northern California
Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
Berkeley Art Museum
Oakland Art Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
De Young Museum (San Francisco)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University (Palo Alto)
San Jose Museum of Art

Middle California
Bakersfield Museum of Art
Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento)
Fresno Art Museum
Fresno Metropolitan Museum (Fresno)

Southern California
Museum of Photographic Arts
California Museum of Photography
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Autry Museum of Western Heritage
California African American Museum (Los Angeles)
The Huntington - Library, Art Collections (San Marino)
Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena) Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego)
The Riverside Municipal Museum
San Diego Museum of Art

Colorado

Denver Art Museum
Aspen Art Museum
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver)

Connecticut

Yale University Art Gallery
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield)
The Bruce Museum (Greenwich )
Davidson Art Center (Middletown)
Hill-Stead Museum (Farmington)
The Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury)
Mystic Seaport (Mystic)
New England Center for Contemporary Art (Brooklyn)
Stamford Museum and Nature Center
The William Benton Museum of Art (Storrs)
The Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford)

Delaware

Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington)
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (Wilmington)
University of Delaware - University Gallery (Newark)

District of Columbia

The Corcoran Gallery of Art
National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Portrait Gallery
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Kreeger Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
National Building Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of African Art
National Museum of the American Indian
The Phillips Collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Florida

Bass Museum of Art
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Norton Museum of Art
Ringling Museum of Art
The Southeast Museum of Photography
Art Museum at Florida International University (Miami Beach)
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Winter Park)
Harn Museum of Art (U of F, Gainesville)
Lowe Art Museum (U of Miami))
Miami Art Museum
Museum of Art (Fort Lauderdale)
Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami)
Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach)
The Salvador Dali Museum (St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts

Georgia

High Museum of Art
Albany Museum of Art
Columbus Museum
Michael C. Carlos Museum (Emory University, Atlanta)
Morris Museum of Art (Augusta)
Oglethorpe University Museum (Atlanta)
Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah)

Hawaii

Bishop Museum
The Contemporary Museum
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Ramsay Museum

Idaho

The Boise Art Museum

Illinois

Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Chicago Athenaeum
Smart Museum of Art (U of Chicago)
The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
The Oriental Institute Museum (U of Chicago)
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Spertus Museum
Terra Museum of American Art
Evanston Art Center (Evanston)
The Krannert Art Museum (U of I at Urbana-Champaign)
University Museum (Carbondale)

Indiana

Indiana University Art Museum
Brauer Museum of Art (Valparaiso University)
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis)
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Richmond Art Museum
Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame)
Swope Art Museum (Terra Haute)

Iowa

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Davenport Museum of Art
Des Moines Art Center
Sioux City Art Center
University of Iowa Museum of Art (Iowa City)

Kansas

Spencer Museum of Art
Beach Museum of Art (KSU, Manhattan)
Mulvane Art Museum of Washburn University (Topeka)
Wichita Art Museum
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art (WSU, Wichita)

Kentucky

J.B Speed Art Museum (Louisville)
University of Kentucky Art Museum (Lexington)

Louisiana

New Orleans Museum of Art
Alexandria Museum of Art
The Louisiana State Museum (New Orleans )
Meadows Museum (Centenary College, Shreveport)
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans)
The R. W. Norton Foundation (Shreveport)

Maine

Bates College Museum of Art (Lewiston)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick)
Colby Museum of Art (Waterville)
Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland)
Portland Museum of Art
University of Maine Museum of Art (Orono)

Maryland

Academy of the Arts
American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore Museum of Art
Contemporary Museum
The Walters Art Gallery

Massachusetts

Fogg Art Museum
Griffin Museum of Photography
Museum of Fine Art
Smith College Museum of Art
Worcester Art Museum
Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover)
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln)
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston)
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams)
Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem)
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown)
Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown)

Michigan

The Detroit Institute of Arts
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills)
Dennos Museum Center (Traverse City)
Flint Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kresge Art Museum (MSU, East Lansing)
University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor)

Minnesota

Minneapolis Institute of Art
Walker Art Center
Minnesota Museum of American Art (St. Paul)
Tweed Museum of Art (U of M, Duluth)
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum (U of M)

Mississippi

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art (Laurel)
Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson)
University of Mississippi Museum (Oxford)
Walter Anderson Museum of Art (Ocean Springs)

Missouri

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Saint Louis Art Museum
Center of Contemporary Arts
City Museum
Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis
The Sheldon Art Galleries
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Kansas City Museum
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art (St. Joseph)
Museum of Art & Archaeology (U of M, Columbia)
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia)
William & Florence Schmidt Art Center (Belleville)

Montana

Art Museum of Missoula
C.M. Russell Museum
Holter Museum of Art (Helena)
Hockaday Museum of Art (Kalispell)
Montana Museum of Art and Culture (U of MT, Missoula)
Museum of the Plains Indian (Browning)
Yellowstone Art Museum (Billings)

Nebraska

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Museum of Nebraska (Kearney)
Joslyn Art Museum

Nevada

Nevada Museum of Art

New Hampshire

Hood Museum of Art (Hanover)
The Currier Gallery of Art (Manchester)

New Jersey

The Art Museum
The Montclaire Art Museum
Morris Museum (Morristown)
Museum of American Glass (Millville)
The Newark Museum
The Noyes Museum of Art (Oceanville)

New Mexico

Albuquerque Museum of Art
University of New Mexico Art Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe)
Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe)

New York

New York City Museums
The Grey Art Gallery
Guggenheim Museum
International Center for Photography
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum
The Frick Collection
Museum of the City of New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

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New York State Musuems
George Eastman House
Strong Museum (Rochester)
Albany Institute of History and Art (Albany)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo)
Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn)
Corning Museum of Glass (Corning)
The Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse)
Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase)

North Carolina

North Carolina Museum of Art
Ackland Art Museum (U of NC, Chapel Hill)
Asheville Art Museum
Contemporary Art Museum (Raleigh)
Duke University Museum of Art
Fayetteville Museum of Art
Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte)
Weatherspoon Art Gallery (U of NC, Greensboro)

North Dakota

Plains Art Museum
The North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks)

Ohio

Akron Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Columbus Art Museum
Toledo Museum of Art
Dayton Art Institute
Springfield Museum of Art
Taft Museum of Art (Cincinnati)

Oklahoma

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (U of O, Norman)
Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa)
Oklahoma City Art Museum
Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa)
World Organization of China Painters Museum (Oklahoma City)

Oregon

Portland Art Museum
Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Willamette University, Salem)
Portland Art Museum
Oregon Historical Society (Portland)
University of Oregon Museum of Art (Eugene)

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art
The James A. Michener Art Museum
National Museum of American Jewish History
Rosenbach Museum & Library
Institute of Contemporary Art U of Pennsylvania
Woodmere Art Museum
The Andy Warhol Museum
Carnegie Museum of Art
The Frick Art Museum (Pittsburg)
Erie Art Museum
James A. Michener Art Museum (Doylestown)
Juniata College Museum of Art (Huntingdon)
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Altoona)
Susquehanna Art Museum (Harrisburg)

Rhode Island

Newport Art Museum
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art

South Carolina

Charleston Museum
Columbia Museum of Art
Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston)
Greenville County Museum of Art
South Carolina State Museum (Columbia)

South Dakota

Tennessee

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Reece Museum
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art
Frank H. McClung Museum
Hunter Museum of American Art
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis)
Knoxville Museum of Art
Tennessee State Museum (Nashville)

Texas

Amon Carter Museum
Austin Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Galveston Arts Center
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Museum of Fine Arts
Contemporary Arts Museum
The Menil Collection
Austin Museum of Art
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
San Antonio Museum of Art

Utah

Museum of Art (Brigham Young University, Provo)
Springville Museum of Art
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (U of Utah, Salt Lake City

Vermont

The Bennington Museum
Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum (Manchester)
Robert Hull Fleming Museum (U of VT, Burlington

Virginia

Chrysler Museum of Art
O. Winston Link Museum
Art Museum of Western Virginia (Roanoke)
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (Virginia Beach)
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
University of Virginia Art Museum

Washington

Frye Art Museum
The Henry Gallery
Seattle Art Museum
Tacoma Art Museum
The Burke Museum
The Wing Luke Asian Museum
Bellevue Art Museum
Maryhill Museum of Art (Goldendale)
Museum of Glass (Tacoma)
Museum of Northwest Art (La Connor)
Washington State Historical Museum (Tacoma)
Whatcom Museum of History and Art (Bellingham)
WSU Museum of Art (Pullman)

West Virginia

Art Museum of Western Virginia
Huntington Museum of Art

Wisconsin

Milwaukee Art Museum
Madison Art Center
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Milwaukee Public Museum
Oshkosh Public Museum

Wyoming

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody)
National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson Hole)
University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie)

International Museums of Photography

Australian Centre for Photography - Australia
Fox Talbot Museum - England
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography - Canada
Finnish Museum of Photography - Finland
Fotomuseum Winterthur - Switzerland
Gallery of Photography - Ireland
Latvian Photo Museum - Latvia
Maison Europeenne de La Photographie - France
Museet for Fotokunst - Denmark
Museum of Photography of Antwerp - Nederland
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television - England
Nara City Museum of Photography - Japan
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography - Greece
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography - Japan

Virtual Online Museums of Photography

American Museum of Photography
Helios - Smithsonian Photography Online

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