National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: American Impressionists
This site provides many examples of American Impressionistic work. Also, under the section titled "Overview", it gives information into the origins of American Impressionism (click the "continued" link after the paragraph).
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Primary sources related to American art and artists, such as letters, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, and sketches, can be found in this impressive archive. An array of tools make it easy to search the collections, and...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: It All Adds Up to Art
Lorna Simpson creates evocative works that examine how combinations of pictures and texts create new meanings that do not exist in the images or words alone. This lesson plan explores the concepts she works with, including African...
PBS
Art:21: Art in the Twenty First Century
The online home of award-winning PBS television series "Art:21" opens a window into the world of contemporary art and artists. Includes a lessons library, downloadable educator guides, examples of student-created projects inspired by the...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: American Artists
Learning module for students and teachers with activities, links to related resources, such as museums, and videos on American Artists, Frank Lloyd Wright, James Audubon and max Fleischer.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue by Georgia O'keefe
From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is the image "Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue", a painting by American artist Georgia O'Keefe.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: African American Masters
An interesting site that contains paintings, sculptures, and photographs by African American artists. Each piece has a short paragraph below it describing the artwork, and the message the artist was trying to convey.
Other
C.w. Post Campus: African Americans Art on the Internet
Many links to galleries, African American artists, African art and museums with collections from African American artists are provided.
Other
Fine Arts Museum: Teachers' Guide to American Art
This guide focuses on twenty-four paintings from the impressive collection of American art housed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The earliest work, a portrait of the children of a Puritan family, dates from 1670. The last piece...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo: Landscape Painting
This lesson plan uncovers the "tricks" artists use when creating a landscape painting. Students will explore the work of American artists George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Winslow Homer. One of the activities is in spanish.
Other
Butler Institute of American Art
American artists are featured in the collections of this museum, which has four branches.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African American History and Culture
This Smithsonian museum is dedicated to the preservation of African American culture. Includes a portrait gallery, profiles of African American artists, exhibitions devoted to the struggle for civil rights, historical photographs and...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: How Observant Are You?
Pop artists of the 1960s encouraged people to look more closely at the everyday objects around them. How observant are your students? This lesson plan focuses on observation, memory, and home and classroom environments.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Can It?
Pop artists used consumer products, advertising, and popular culture icons as the major source for subject matter in their art. Between 1962 and 1967, Andy Warhol painted soup cans, both individually and in groups. 100 Cans is one of the...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold)
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze relief sculpture "Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold)" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Robert Louis Stevenson
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze relief sculpture "Robert Louis Stevenson" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mrs. Stanford White (Bessie Springs Smith)
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined marble relief sculpture "Mrs. Stanford White (Bessie Springs Smith)" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Davida Johnson Clark
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined plaster sculpture "Davida Johnson Clark" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Puritan
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze sculpture "The Puritan" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and lonks...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hiawatha
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined marble sculpture "Hiawatha" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and lonks to...
Other
Romare Bearden Foundation
Site provides not only a biography of this great African-American artist, but many beautiful images of his work. At this site you can use "Bearden in the Classroom," for teaching ideas across grade levels. A great place to explore!
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Romare Bearden: Let's Walk the Block
A fantastic site that allows you to zoom in on one of Bearden's pieces. See his famous collages up close. Get information on the artist and discover his inspiration. Includes further activities for teachers.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Art Deco
A description of the art deco movement, with a chronological list of artists and links to famous works and biographies.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Everett Shinn
Works of art by Everett Shinn may be viewed and enlarged here. A biography is available by clicking on the link.