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American Institute of Graphic Arts: Art and Propaganda
Read an illustrated transcript of Milton Glaser's keynote address to a symposium on propaganda held in 2008, in which he muses on the purpose of art. Glaser, a celebrated graphic designer whose work is represented in major museums around...
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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.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Eanger Irving Couse
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Eanger Irving Couse is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his depictions and paintings of Native Americans.
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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.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Alexander H. Wyant
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Alexander H. Wyant is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Frederick Carl Frieseke
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Frederick Carl Frieseke is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his American Impressionist paintings.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
In this 9-12 instructional activity, 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...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Richard Mayhew
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Richard Mayhew is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his abstract landscape.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Henry Ward Ranger
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Henry Ward Ranger is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting.
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.
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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: William C. Palmer
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, William C. Palmer is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape art depicting American scenes.
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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.
Arizona State University
Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Smithsonian Institution
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.
Arizona State University
Chicana and Chicano Space: Protest and Persuasion
Part of a larger website provided by Arizona State University on Chicano art, this learning is focused on "Protest and Persuasion," in art, particularly in printmaking or making murals. Includes lessons, sample work, and more.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pedro E. Guerrero: Capturing the Artist
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 American Art Museum: Thomas Sully
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 American Art Museum: Josef Albers
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 American Art Museum: Milton Avery
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 American Art Museum: Robert S. Duncanson
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 American Art Museum: Lois Mailou Jones
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.