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Parrish Art Museum: East End Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
Website exploring the artist community on the East End of Long Island, New York. With image galleries, historical chronology, and biographical information on many artists.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pedro E. Guerrero: Capturing the Artist

For Students 9th - 10th
This media gallery from the American Masters and VOCES co-presentation of Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey explores Guerrero's working relationship with sculptor Louise Nevelson. Guerrero was a gifted photographer of...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Sully

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a short biography and photographic portrait of the 19th-century miniature portrait artist Thomas Sully.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Josef Albers

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides an extensive biographical overview on Josef Albers in addition to an all-inclusive listing of his works displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Milton Avery

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Milton Avery in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum. A link is also provided for additional...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Robert S. Duncanson

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides in-depth biographical information on Robert S. Duncanson in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lois Mailou Jones

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Lois Mailou Jones in addition to an extensive listing of her works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Laszlo Moholy Nagy

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Alma Woodsey Thomas

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Alma Woodsey Thomas in addition to an extensive listing of her works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: William Henry Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on William Henry Johnson in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Jacob Lawrence

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides lengthy biographical information on Jacob Lawrence in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: "Watson and the Shark"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive site that tells the story behind one of John Singleton Copley's most famous paintings, "Watson and the Shark." The site discusses the artist's life and provides compositional information about the painting....
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Musee D'orsay: James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler, Portrait of the Artist's Mother

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the American Impressionist painting "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Hans Hofmann

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, presents this short biography, a photographic portrait of the artist and an example painting with a map to its exhibit location in the museum, by the...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ad Reinhardt

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art presents the biography and photographic portrait of American abstract artist, Ad Reinhardt.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Color as Field: American Painting, 1950 1975

For Students 9th - 10th
Slideshow that highlights paintings exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum done by artists whose works are classified as color field painting.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charmion Von Wiegand

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Charmion Von Wiegand is described here along with information on her contributions to art through abstract art.
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Smithsonian Institution

Archives of American Art: Digging for Clay

For Students 9th - 10th
A selection of letters, writings, photographs, interviews and other primary sources documenting American artists working in clay.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ben Shahn

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art in the Smithsonian American Art Museum presents this short biography and photographic portrait of the Jewish-American social realist painter Ben Shahn. A link to a Shahn piece on view and where...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Arthur B. Davies

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art of the Smithsonian American Art Museum presents this short biography, quote, and photographic portrait of modernist American sculptor Arthur B. Davies.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Adolph Gottlieb

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art presents a biographical, multi-media take on the abstract expressionist painter Adolph Gottlieb. The New York native Gottlieb was a central figure in the development of American abstract art.
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CGFA

Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Winslow Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
This presentation provides an extensive gallery of American artist Winslow Homer's work, as well as a link to biographical information.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Eyeing America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Robert Cottingham takes you on a visual tour across America with his works of art. View his complete collection that showcases commercial signs.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Edward Hopper Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography on the American painter Edward Hopper.