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. See also Native American Art.

Christo & Jeanne-Claude
The Art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude

  • The Gates - Central Park, 1979-2005 - (dead link)
    "The 7500 Gates, 16 feet (4.87 meters) high with a width varying from 5' 6" to 18 feet (1,67 m to 5,48 meters) will follow the edges of the walkways and will be perpendicular to the selected 23 miles of footpaths in Central Park.

Sister Wendy's American Collection
A Companion Web Site to the PBS Series
"The visual arts are an excellent way to supplement instruction in history, social studies, language arts, or other subjects in middle and high school classrooms. Use these hints to find ways to link your curriculum to the content in the Web site and programs."
Includes: Selected Works ; The Museums ; Meet Sister Wendy ; Classroom Hints.
PBS Online

America's Quilting History
"It covers the history of American quilting including women and their quilting from Colonial America to the mid 20th century plus Native American, African American and Amish quilts. The site also includes quilt history articles, book reviews, myths found in quilting history, a directory to quilt and history sites and a section for students and teachers."
By Anne Johnson

American Photography: A Century of Images
In addition to thematic features such as Digital Truth, Persuasion, Art, Social Change, Cultural Identity the site also contains a fascinating Image Lab.
PBS Online

The Andy Warhol Museum

  • One Stop Warhol Shop - (dead link) "Developed by The Andy Warhol Museum, One Stop Warhol Shop is an evolving Web project encompassing the single most comprehensive Internet resource on Andy Warhol and a unique online experience to represent his multifaceted and (re)inventive spirit. To this end, One Stop Warhol Shop embraces the idea of a museum as an "open work," enabling users to easily navigate their own path of discovery."

Art:21
"Twenty-one artists who are defining the visual arts for a new millennium discuss their life, their work, and their vision in Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century, a four-part series premiering Fall 2001 on PBS. The first broadcast series to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, Art:21 offers a unique glimpse into 21 artists' personal experiences, sources of inspiration, and creative processes."
PBS Online

Artstar.com - (dead link)
"...offers a unique combination of art education, high resolution images of artwork, artist background information, shopping and auction capabilities across all art-related categories, highly-qualified art consulting services, an online art magazine, and access to US art fairs, museum and gallery information."
Their "Library" includes the online magazine Everything Art, Who's Who in American Art, and an art glossary with over 2000 terms.

AskART.com
"Extensive Information on 24,000 North American Artists"
Includes "digital images, biographical documentation, book references, auction data, and the opportunity to engage in open forum dialogue on the subject of American artists."

Chihuly, Dale

  • Dale Chihuly
    Sections of this outstanding site include Selected Works: Glass, Drawings, Installations ; Dale Chihuly: Biography, Chronology, Bibliography ; Exhibitions: Schedule, Galleries, Collections.

The Getty (English or Spanish)

Harvard University Art Museums

  • Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings
    "The term 'transatlantic paintings' refers to a group of 17 works that Mondrian started (and in some cases finished) in Europe between 1935 and 1940, and finished (or refinished) in New York after his arrival there in the fall of 1940."
    In addition to the Gallery of the 17 works sections include: Introduction ; Studies ; Details ; Career.
  • Sargent at Harvard
    "...is a searchable database that makes available images and textual information relating to the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums and the Harvard University Portrait Collection."

Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)
Santa Fe, NM

  • Library - (dead link)
    Use the IAIA online catalog to search for resources in the library.

[The Gates in Central Park]Christo & Jeanne-Claude
The Art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude

  • The Gates - Central Park, 1979-2005 - (dead link)
    "The 7500 Gates, 16 feet (4.87 meters) high with a width varying from 5' 6" to 18 feet (1,67 m to 5,48 meters) will follow the edges of the walkways and will be perpendicular to the selected 23 miles of footpaths in Central Park.

Japanese American National Museum


Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence Virtual Archive and Education Center
Official site of the Lawrence Foundation
Sections include: News & Exhibitions ; Art & Life ; Education Resources ; Related Sites.

Remembering Jacob Lawrence
"Two renowned American artists, Jacob Lawrence and George Segal, died last Friday night. We begin a two-part remembrance tonight. First, Jacob Lawrence, considered one of the century's great American painters. Here's a report and interview by former NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault that was broadcast in 1995."
- PBS Online NewsHour, June 11, 2000

The Phillips Collection
"America's first museum of modern art"

Whitney Museum of American Art - (dead link)

  • Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories
    "...This website is for families, teachers, students, and anyone else who is interested in exploring Jacob Lawrenceís work, his themes, and his approach to visual storytelling...Here you'll find some of Lawrenceís paintings, information, learning resources, and fun activities..."

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Jewish Museum of New York

  • Online Exhibitions
    • Making Connections in Art and Jewish Culture
      "Explore the collection interactively. This online exhibition includes sixty works, from ancient artifacts to contemporary art and television clips, and traces their interconnections."
Library of Congress Exhibitions

Library of Congress - Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon

  • Al Hirschfeld, Beyond Broadway
    "The exhibition features twenty-five works drawn from the gift, and from the Library's established collections, spanning Hirschfeld's miraculous career and offering an intimate look back at the origins of his wondrous, 'unaccountable' line."
  • The Water-Babies: Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
    "Her works evoking the innocence of youth and demonstrating the artistry of illustrated books are among the Library's great graphic treasures."

[Lungren] University of California, Santa Barbara - University Art Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET)

  • Richard Avedon: Portraits - (dead link)

Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)

  • The Changing of the Avant-Garde
    Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection
    "...celebrates The Howard Gilman Foundation's generous gift of 205 architectural drawings...focuses on radical projects from the 1960s and 1970s and includes some of the most famous utopian drawings of the twentieth century."
  • Jaspers Johns: A Retrospective - (dead link)
    Sections include: Chronology ; Selected Works ; Publications ; Bibliography.
  • Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things
    "This interactive Web site is similarly arranged and fosters a rich understanding of her innovative body of printed art, illustrating over 135 works in more than 50 comparative groupings."

Museum of the City of New York

  • Gotham Comes of Age: New York through the Lens of the Byron Company, 1892 - 1942 - (dead link)
    "This on-line version of Gotham Comes of Age replicates the published book in its entirety. Released in April 1999, the 216-page book--with 172 duotone reproductions--accompanies the exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York..."

National Archives and Records Administration Home Page

  • Designs for Democracy - (dead link)
    200 Years of Drawings from the National Archives
    "...is an exhibition of nearly 125 design drawings selected from the vast holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration and its Presidential Libraries. The designs, all permanently valuable Federal records, were selected to illustrate 200 years of Government drawings. They are also works of art. Displayed here are elegant watercolor paintings, exquisite ink and wash drawings, bold charcoal and pencil sketches, and finely executed engineering details."

National Gallery of Art (NGA)


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National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution

  • Continuum 12 Artists
    "presents new work by twelve contemporary Native artists in a series of six paired shows. The artistsóall of whom have broken fresh ground in contemporary and Native American artówork in diverse media including painting, sculpture, prints, photography, video, and installation pieces. Their themes are equally varied: contemporary events, the impact of history, the power of language, Native identity, the value of humor, and personal memories
  • Reservation X : The Power of Place - (dead link)
    "Contemporary communities are no longer fixed, unified, or stable places; rather they exist in a state of flux. The reserve or reservation is both community and home for many Native people; yet the traditional notions of community are not without problems. In this exhibition, Reservation X: The Power of Place, we invited seven Native artists [Marianne Nicolson, Shelley Niro, Mateo Romero, Nora Naranjo-Morse, C. Maxx Stevens, Jolene Ricard, Mary Longman] to examine the ideas of community and identity."
  • who stole the tee pee? - (dead link)
    "Reflections on Native Realities: 'Who stole the tee pee?' is a question posed by artist George Littlechild. It's another way of asking, 'What happened to our traditions?' Missionaries, soldiers, teachers, government officials, and social reformers took away much of what our ancestors had. Did they steal the tee pee? Or did they create a situation in which some of our relatives were more than willing to give it up? ... Works by contemporary Native American artists explore the impact of those changes-social, political, cultural, and personal. The artists look back in order to examine the processes of change, to understand what their relatives went through during the period of forced assimilation, boarding school education, and relocation to distant cities. The artists also reflect on their own realities that are still affected by those same forces of change or influenced by an entirely new set of circumstances."

Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal
"...to provide a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945)... There are currently 9908 objects from 92 participating museums listed in the Portal."
- American Association of Museums

The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge - (dead link)

  • Teacher's Resources - (dead link)
    "The Norman Rockwell Museum has created a Resource Packet for Educators to accompany the exhibition Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People. Here you will find lesson plans and resources to connect Rockwell with your curriculum."

Panoramas
The North American Landscape in Art
"Artists in Mexico, the United States, and Canada have long depicted this powerful attachment to place. The landscape art in this exhibition reflects the natural environment but also our history, our industries, our cultures and our belief systems. Consequently, it suggests the common human condition present in even the most diverse of landscapes."
From the Virtual Museum Canada

PBS - American Experience - Mount Rushmore (February 2003)
Sections include: Carving a Mountain ; Contest ; Footage ; The Film & More ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events ; Teacher's Guide.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Sister Wendy's American Collection
A Companion Web Site to the PBS Series
"The visual arts are an excellent way to supplement instruction in history, social studies, language arts, or other subjects in middle and high school classrooms. Use these hints to find ways to link your curriculum to the content in the Web site and programs."
Includes: Selected Works ; The Museums ; Meet Sister Wendy ; Classroom Hints.
PBS Online

Smithsonian Archives of American Art

  • The Artful Presidency - (dead link) "...an online exhibit, is presented by the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art to celebrate the connections between American artists and the American presidency from George Washington to the Carter administration."
  • Getting the Pictures - (dead link)
    The Art of the Illustrated Letter
    "An online version of an exhibition at the Archives of American Art's New York Regional Center January 28th-March 14, 2000."
  • Preliminary Guide to Resources on Asian Pacific American Artists at the Archives of American Art - (dead link)

Smithsonian Institution

  • Smithsonian Online Collections - (dead link) "Over the past few years the Smithsonian has been digitizing its catalogues and has been appending images to these records. The On-Line Collections site is the portal through which these collections will ultimately be accessed. You will be able to use the portal site to search for topics or collections across the museums, allowing the user to locate and browse the Smithsonianís treasures."
  • National Museum of American History
    • Building a National Collection
      150 Years of the National Print Collection
      "...this exhibition focuses on the process of collecting--how private collectors and public attitudes have influenced the collection's development and direction."
    • Paint By Number
      Sections include: Introduction ; Every Man a Rembrandt ; The New Leisure ; The Picture's Place ; The Unfinished Work ; Post-a-Reminiscence ; Bibliography & Links.
  • The National Portrait Gallery
    • A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery - (dead link)"...date from the 1720s to the 1990s. They vary in style and technique from the most sophisticated such as those by painters Gilbert Stuart and John Singer Sargent to those by self-taught artists, including Thomas Badger and William Elwell."
    • Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places
    • George Washington: A National Treasure
      "..a historic tour [of Gilbert Stuart's original 1796 portrait of George Washington] from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, celebrates our nation's first President-the man, the icon, the hero...This interactive portait [sic] allows you to to explore the portrait in detail, from three very different vantage points: the symbolic, the biographic, and the artistic"
    • Portraits of the Presidents from the National Portrait Gallery
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum

University of California, Riverside California Museum of Photography

  • Rear View Mirror - (dead link)
    Automobile Images and American Identities

University of California, Santa Barbara - University Art Museum

Virtual Museum of Canada

  • Panoramas
    The North American Landscape in Art
    "Artists in Mexico, the United States, and Canada have long depicted this powerful attachment to place. The landscape art in this exhibition reflects the natural environment but also our history, our industries, our cultures and our belief systems. Consequently, it suggests the common human condition present in even the most diverse of landscapes."
  • Perspectives: Women Artists in North America
    "...celebrates the important contributions of women in the arts from Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America. The Web exhibit features historical, modern, and contemporary art."

Whitney Museum of American Art - (dead link)

  • Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories
    "...This website is for families, teachers, students, and anyone else who is interested in exploring Jacob Lawrenceís work, his themes, and his approach to visual storytelling...Here you'll find some of Lawrenceís paintings, information, learning resources, and fun activities..."

Woodcock Museum, St. Louis - (dead link) Online exhibits include: Cast in Motion: Charles Russell Sculpture ; Art at the Crossroads ; Art of the Frontier.

Worchester Art Museum

  • Early American Paintings
     "...includes biographies of twenty artists, detailed entries on fifty-three paintings, and checklist information on twenty-four additional works. Each of the seventy-seven works is illustrated. This catalogue encompasses all of the paintings in the museum's collection that were created prior to 1830 by artists who were either born or active in America, including works painted abroad by those artists."

See also Native American Art



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