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List of works by David Galenson

A Conceptual World: Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is So Different From the Art of All Earlier Centuries

A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Young or Very Old Innovator: Creativity at the Extremes of the Life Cycle

scientific article published in May 2004

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young or Old Innovator: Measuring the Careers of Modern Novelists

scientific article published in January 2004

Age and the Quality of Work: The Case of Modern American Painters

Analyzing Artistic Innovation: The Greatest Breakthroughs of the Twentieth Century

scientific article published in May 2006

And Now for Something Completely Different: The Versatility of Conceptual Innovators

scientific article published in February 2006

Anticipating Artistic Success (or, How to Beat the Art Market): Lessons from History

scientific article published in February 2005

Artists and the Market: From Leonardo and Titian to Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst

scientific article published in September 2007

Careers and Canvases: The Rise of the Market for Modern Art in the Nineteenth Century

scientific article published in August 2002

Co-Authoring Advanced Art

scientific article published in October 2007

Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

scientific article published in June 2009

Creative Careers: The Life Cycles of Nobel Laureates in Economics

Do the Young British Artists Rule (or: Has London Stolen the Idea of Postmodern Art from New York?): Evidence from the Auction Market

scientific article published in October 2005

Economic and Geographic Mobility on the Farming Frontier: Evidence from Appanoose County, Iowa 1850-1870

scientific article published in May 1989

Filming Images or Filming Reality: The Life Cycles of Movie Directors from D.W. Griffith to Federico Fellini

From "White Christmas" to Sgt. Pepper: The Conceptual Revolution in Popular Music

scientific article published in August 2007

From the New Wave to the New Hollywood: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from Godard and Truffaut to Spielberg and Eastwood

scientific article published in June 2008

Innovators: Architects

scientific article published in January 2010

Innovators: Filmmakers

scientific article published in April 2010

Innovators: Songwriters

scientific article published in November 2009

Language in Visual Art: The Twentieth Century

scientific article published in March 2008

Late Bloomers in the Arts and Sciences: Answers and Questions

scientific article published in March 2010

Literary Life Cycles: The Careers of Modern American Poets

scientific article published in July 2003

Masterpieces and Markets: Why the Most Famous Modern Paintings Are Not by American Artists

scientific article published in October 2001

Measuring Masters and Masterpieces: French Rankings of French Painters and Paintings from Realism to Surrealism

On the Age at Leaving Home in the Early Nineteenth Century: Evidence from the Lives of New England Manufacturers

scientific article published in September 1985

One Hit Wonders: Why Some of the Most Important Works of Modern Art are Not by Important Artists

scientific article published in November 2004

Painting by Proxy: The Conceptual Artist as Manufacturer

Portraits of the Artist: Personal Visual Art in the Twentieth Century

scientific article published in April 2008

Precedence and Wealth: Evidence from Nineteenth Century Utah

Quantifying Artistic Success: Ranking French Painters - and Paintings - from Impressionism to Cubism

scientific article published in October 1999

Quantile Regression Analysis of Censored Wealth Data

The Back Story of Twentieth-Century Art

scientific article published in June 2008

The Careers of Modern Artists: Evidence from Auctions of Contemporary Paintings

scientific article published in December 1997

The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century

scientific article published in May 2008

The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century: Goals, Methods, and Life Cycles

scientific article published in July 2008

The Greatest Artists of the Twentieth Century

scientific article published in December 2005

The Greatest Photographers of the Twentieth Century

scientific article published in August 2009

The Life Cycles of Modern Artists

scientific article published in February 2002

The Life Cycles of Modern Artists: Theory, Measurement, and Implications

scientific article published in March 2003

The Lives of the Painters of Modern Life: The Careers of Artists in France from Impressionism to Cubism

scientific article published in January 1999

The Methods and Careers of Leading American Painters in the late Nineteenth Century

scientific article published in August 2005

The Most Important Works of Art of the Twentieth Century

scientific article published in February 2006

The New York School vs. the School of Paris: Who Really Made the Most Important Art After World War II?

scientific article published in September 2002

The Reappearing Masterpiece: Ranking American Artists and Art Works of the Late Twentieth Century

scientific article published in September 2003

The Rise and (Partial) Fall of Abstract Painting in the Twentieth Century

scientific article published in January 2008

Toward Abstraction: Ranking European Painters of the Early Twentieth Century

scientific article published in August 2005

Two Paths to Abstract Art: Kandinsky and Malevich

scientific article published in August 2006

Understanding Creativity

scientific article published in May 2010

Was Jackson Pollock the Greatest Modern American Painter? A Quantitative Investigation

scientific article published in March 2002

Who Are the Greatest Living Artists? The View from the Auction Market

scientific article published in October 2005

Who Were the Greatest Women Artists of the Twentieth Century? A Quantitative Investigation

Wisdom and Creativity in Old Age: Lessons from the Impressionists

scholarly article published June 2007

You Cannot be Serious: The Conceptual Innovator as Trickster

Young Geniuses and Old Masters: The Life Cycles of Great Artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns

scientific article published in July 2001