National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Art
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: "Machine Age"
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Modernism
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts provides a fun and interesting site to explore! Click on a time period to view examples and descriptions of various pieces of art from the modernism period. To see a larger image and more information of...
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art: "Maine Coast, 1907"
Oil painting on canvas by Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971).
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Modernist Portraits
This unit delves into American modernist literature which introduced itself between World War I and World War II, including authors Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Explore the site for a video on demand,...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Beauford Delaney by Georgia O'keeffe
Fascinating observations of Georgia O'Keeffe's portrait of Beauford Delaney. Listen to Wendy Wick Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, explain O'Keeffe's use of pastels.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Stuart Davis
Wendy Wick Reaves,a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, discusses the pencil drawing by Stuart Davis and explains how he achieves the look of his self-portrait.
PBS
Pbs American Masters: Man Ray
PBS American Masters series profiles the life and work of the photographer and artist Man Ray (1890-1976).
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Precisionism
The biography of the American Art movement Precisionism which took place during the 1920s and 1930s. Check this site out for more information, artist links and images.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Ault
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on George Ault. Ault's paintings throughout his life consistently reflected a modernist theme. The site, in addition to the...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edwin Dickinson
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Edwin Dickinson is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with integrating themes of modernism into his paintings.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Vaclav Vytlacil
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Vaclav Vytlacil is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his association with modernism and his integration of Hans Hoffman's teachings.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Stuart Davis
Biographical summary of the life and career of American modernist painter, Stuart Davis.