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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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Other

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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PBS

Pbs: American Masters: Alexander Calder

For Students 9th - 10th
From the PBS series, American Masters, this is the biography, a video, and related links for the American abrstract expressionist sculptor Alexander Calder.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Art Deco

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the art deco movement, with a chronological list of artists and links to famous works and biographies.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Tooker

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art presents a photograph portrait and biography of American modern artist, George Tooker. A link to an image and description of a Tooker work on view as well as how to find it in the museum are...
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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 Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Jacob Lawrence

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art presents the African-American painter and Harlem Renaissance figure, Jacob Lawrence, with a short biography, image, and description of his work on view in the collection and a video interview...
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Smithsonian Institution

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 Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Grant Wood

For Students 9th - 10th
Grant Wood is profiled at this site in a format that begins with a brief biographical sketch of his life. His works are then listed by appearance in the museum's database. Each work is presented in thumbnail format with brief information...
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Smithsonian Institution

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 Institution

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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PBS

Pbs: American Masters: Robert Rauschenberg

For Students 9th - 10th
From the PBS series, American Masters, this is the biography for the American pop painter Robert Rauschenberg.
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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.
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New York Times

New York Times: Robert Smithson: Earth Art

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Pop Art in the Us

For Students 9th - 10th
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.