Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Portrait of the Art World: Gaston Lachaise
Brief essay about the artistic interests of sculptor Gaston Lachaise.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: The Mask of Lincoln: Proclamation of Emancipation
View an elaborate engraving of the Emancipation Proclamation, produced two years after Lincoln first issued it. It marries Civil War-era iconography with the text of Lincoln's declaration and is a useful resource for analyzing artistic...
Read Works
Read Works: Portrait of an Artist
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text about Phong Chung, a Vietnamese painter living in New York. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Raphael
In-depth biography of Raphael from Olga's Gallery including his style and links to his works one being "Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de Medici and Luigi de Rossi."
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Hans Holbein the Younger
A short biography and examples of some well-known work of master artist Hans Holbein the Younger.
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
The WebMuseum gives you brief biographical information of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin and reproductions of Chardin's work, including "Back From the Market." There is also a link to de Hooch, an artistic influence of Chardin's.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Edgar Degas
This site has a gallery of the works of Edgar Degas (1834-1917 CE). Contains short biography of the artist.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charles Bird King
A biographical note about Charles Bird King, with a link to works in the Smithsonian by King and to copies of his works by other artists.
US National Archives
Portrait of Black Chicago: John H. White
From June through October 1973 and briefly during the spring of 1974, John H. White worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, especially the city`s African American community. His photographs portray the difficult...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Zaida Ben Yusuf: Daniel Chester French
This site provides information about the sculptor Daniel Chester French. He is famous for his sculpture of President Lincoln created as a part of the Lincoln Memorial. The picture is provided by a photograph taken by Zaida Ben-Yusuf.
Digital History
Digital History: The Artist in American Society
See how the creation of visual art in its many forms developed over the first half of the 19th century. In addition of the painters in the Hudson River School of Art, read about the beautification of natural spaces such as parks, and...
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Jacques Louis David: Empire to Exile
The companion website of a major survey of the work of Jacques-Louis David exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum in February 2005. The exhibition focuses on the artist's career after the French Revolution, from the mid-1790s until his...
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Durer, Albrecht
Brief biographical history with links to images of his works including "The Four Holy Men." Also contains information on his high regard in Germany as an artist and offers interpretation of several of his paintings and his style.
Other
Fine Arts Museum: Teachers' Guide to American Art
This guide focuses on twenty-four paintings from the impressive collection of American art housed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The earliest work, a portrait of the children of a Puritan family, dates from 1670. The last piece...
Other
Legh Mulhall Kilpin
Legh Mulhall Kilpin was an artist who emigrated to Canada from Britain in 1902, settled in Montreal in 1906 and worked there until his death in 1919. Although not well known, his art and legacy are quite remarkable. His works range from...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Art Wonders
Can portraits talk? What's in a landscape? How do artists make furniture? ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.
Other
Louvre Museum: A Closer Look at Louis Francois Bertin
Media-rich module examines a portrait of a nineteenth-century French newspaper magnate by Ingres. Accompanying commentaries and animations demonstrate Ingres's approach to portraiture and convey the work's historical and artistic...
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, & Things
Sculptor and printmaker, she is among the most significant artists of her generation. This exhibition showcases the scope of Smith through such topics as anatomy, self-portraiture, nature, and female iconography.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Double Vision
Pablo's Picasso's La Toilette is a loving portrait of Fernande Olivier, as well as a study in opposites and a reference to the history of art. In this instructional activity, students will discover the many levels of content in the...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography
Students will learn about horizon lines in traditional landscapes and portraits, shadows and reflected light, and John Pfahl's Altered Landscapes. They will also create their own altered landscape photographs and portraits and write...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Treasures to Go: Young America
A survey of fifty-seven landscapes and portraits that reveal visions of early America and its birth as a new nation as rendered by early American artists.
Other
John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
This site known as the JSS virtual gallery is a great site with a biography of the artist John Singer Sargent and an extensive listing of his works. Links 350+ paintings.
Other
The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge
This museum resource provides images, education resources, and a wonderful biography of artist Norman Rockwell.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Famous Americans: Gilbert Stuart
Learn brief information from the National Postal Museum on Gilbert Stuart, famous American portrait painter, who was featured on the one cent postage stamp.