Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: William Henry Johnson
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 American Art Museum: Jacob Lawrence
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.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: "Watson and the Shark"
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
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 American Art Museum: Hans Hofmann
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
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art presents the biography and photographic portrait of American abstract artist, Ad Reinhardt.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Color as Field: American Painting, 1950 1975
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
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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Archives of American Art: Digging for Clay
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
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 American Art Museum: Arthur B. Davies
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 American Art Museum: Adolph Gottlieb
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.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Winslow Homer
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 American Art Museum: Eyeing America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham
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.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Edward Hopper Biography
A short biography on the American painter Edward Hopper.
New York Times
New York Times: Robert Smithson: Earth Art
An audio slideshow about artist Robert Smithson narrated by New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman. The slideshow, which illustrates many of Smithson's drawings and works of scuplture, including his famous "Spiral Jetty," coincides...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Pop Art in the Us
Surrounded by the products of consumer culture, American Pop artists were inspired by what they saw and experienced living within that culture. Read more about Pop art's founding figures in the USA.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Guggenheim Museum: Collection Online: Artist Bio: Richard Serra
A profile of American artist Richard Serra.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Guggenheim Museum: Collection Online: Artist Bio: James Casebere
A profile of the career of the American artist, James Casebere, that includes images of some of his works.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lure of the West
An exhibit from the Smithsonian includes 70 paintings and sculptures by famous American Western artists such as Catlin, Baker, Bierstadt, and Remington.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: A New Deal for Artists: 1934
Information about 1934: A New Deal for Artists, a past exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Links to a slideshow of artwork in the exhibit, an interactive educational website, a narrated tour of the exhibit, and news articles.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Mary Cassatt
A site by the National Gallery of Art of twelve selected Cassatt color prints. There is also a biography of the artist.
Other
The Art of Kadir Nelson: The Artist
Learn about the career of illustrator and artist Kadir Nelson, whose work has been featured in films, children's books and major museums.