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Read Works: I Am Native American
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text based on an interview with Native American artist Jody Naranjo. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Kentucky Educational Television
Kentucky Educational Television: Ellis Wilson: So Much to Paint
Created as a supplement to a television documentary on the African-American artist, Ellis Wilson, site content includes extensive biographical information, a timeline of his life, and examples of many of his paintings.
Peabody Essex Museum
Peabody Essex Museum: Joseph Cornell
This resource provides information about American artist Joseph Cornell.
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Norval Morrisseau and Medicine Painting
Norval Morrisseau, a Canadian Ojibwa, is the founder of Woodland school of Native American medicine painting.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Joshua Johnson
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Joshua Johnson is described here along with information on his contributions to art. Johnson is the "earliest documented" African American painter.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Rembrandt Peale
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a portrait photograph and biography of Rembrandt Peale, the early American portrait painter and most of famous of the Peale brothers family of artists.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Beauford Delaney
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Beauford Delaney is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his association with the Harlem Renaissance and his portraits of African Americans.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: John Biggers
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides brief biographical information on John Biggers in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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American Impressionist Selections
A great list provided of American Impressionist artists and their exhibits. A visual site of artist's paintings of impressionism style.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Esphyr Slobodkina
This site provides biographical information on Esphyr Slobodkina, a Cubist artist whose sphere of influence included children's books. The online exhibit includes images and descriptions of several of her works.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Awa Tsireh
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Awa Tsireh. The site, in addition to the biographical information, provides an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Renee Stout
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Renee Stout in addition to an extensive listing of her works as displayed at the museum.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: American Scene Painters
Artcyclopedia's complete list of artists from the mainstream realist and antimodernist styles of the Great Depression. There are links to the artists' biographies and pictures of their work.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
In this 9-12 lesson plan, young scholars will create original artwork demonstrating the style of an early 20th-century artist of the Mexican Revolution. They will research how art was influenced or created in response to major events,...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: American Art to 1900
Study works of American art from the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. Works in a variety of media, including the decorative arts, are represented as are pieces by some of America's best-known artists: Copley, Church, Homer, and...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Childe Hassam
The Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is made possible through a generous gift from the Henry Luce Foundation and presents thirty-five hundred art and craft objects from American Art to the public. This page...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Norman Rockwell
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art presents the American realist illustrator and painter Norman Rockwell. A biography, photograph portrait, and image of work on view in the collection with a map to locate it are included.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charles Willson Peale
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a self-portrait and biography for Charles Willson Peale, monumental portrait painter of George Washington and the man responsible for opening America?s first...
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Columbus Museum of Art: Curator's View: Norman Rockwell's "Soda Jerk"
See the painting 'Soda Jerk' by American commercial artist of the mid-20th-century, Norman Rockwell, in this Curator's View series description of the piece from the Columbua Museum of Art.
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Amon Carter Museum: Encountering Texas (1846 1856)
Three early American artists captured the landscape of the unknown frontier which slowly became the state of Texas.
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Ask Art: Grafton Tyler Brown
This site offers three brief biographies of Grafton Tyler Brown, "the first recognized African- American artist in the American West." Click "The Images" for examples of Brown's work.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Prisoners From the Front Winslow Homer
This site provides details of the painting entitled "Prisoners from the Front" by American artist Winslow Homer.
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National Museum of the American Indian: New Modernities in a Post Indian World
Fifteen young artists acquaint viewers with the challenges faced by Native Americans in today's world.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edmonia Lewis
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Edmonia Lewis in addition to an extensive listing of her works as displayed at the museum.