Smithsonian Institution
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.
Smithsonian Institution
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Kenneth Noland
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a portrait photograph and biography for the color field painter Kenneth Noland.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ivan Albright
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a portrait photograph and biography for the American painter, Ivan Albright.
Wonderville Media
Wonderville: Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was an extraordinary painter. His paintings are bright and full of energy. He painted everything, including portraits of people, landscapes, his bedroom, and simple flower arrangements. Learn about Vincent Van Gogh in...
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Image
This website from Webmuseum of Ibiblio.org provides information about the greatest artist of Renaissance Germany (goldsmith, illustrator, painter), Albrecht Durer (1471-1528). Site provides many images of his work.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: George Washington Charles Wilson Peale
This resource provides Peale's rendition of the famous American leader, George Washington.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Vincent Van Gogh
Useful biographical information and fun facts about Vincent Van Gogh's paintings.
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Southern Methodist University: Bridwell Library: Works of Albrecht Durer
This exhibition of seventy prints by German-born artist Albrecht Durer demonstrates his skill as an artist and engraver. With many examples of his religious subjects and portraits.
New York Times
New York Times: Vincent Van Gogh: A Draftsman's Fist
Michael Kimmelman, art critic for the New York Times, narrates a walk-through slideshow of an exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005. Wonderful examples of Van Gogh's landscapes and...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African American History and Culture
This Smithsonian museum is dedicated to the preservation of African American culture. Includes a portrait gallery, profiles of African American artists, exhibitions devoted to the struggle for civil rights, historical photographs and...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, by Marius De Zayas
From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is the image "John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz", a charcoal portrait of the two artists by the Mexican painter Marius de Zayas.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Page
An American painter and portrait artist. Page origianlly studied for the ministry at the Andover Theological Seminary, though in later life he became a Swedenborgian. he received his training in art from Samuel F. B. Morse at the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gainsborough
(1727-1788) Landscape and portrait artist who did such works as The Blue Boy and The Harvest Wagon.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: John Trumbull
This site lists museums that have John Trumbull (1756-1843 CE) paintings. Many of the museums have images and descriptions of the paintings online.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: John Singleton Copely
This site lists museums, galleries, image archives, and web sites online which exhibit John Singleton Copely's art. A few periodical articles are also included.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: A Look at Judith Leyster
Students will identify clues and adjectives to describe Judith Leyster's personality and then develop and refine her characterizations through poetry writing. Using Leyster's monogram as their inspiration, they will then shift the focus...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: James Mc Neill Whistler
Full of links to Museums and Galleries that contain examples of Whistler's Work. Also includes some information on Whistler.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Frans Hals
Links to museum and gallery sites that have the work of Frans Hals.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Benjamin West
Benjamin West 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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Childe Hassam
The Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is made possible through a generous gift from the Henry Luce Foundation and presents thirty-five hundred art and craft objects from American Art to the public. This page...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Charles Willson Peale
This ArtCyclopedia resource for Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), the American colonial-era painter, provides links to a biography, museums with his work, and articles about him.
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George Washington
Many components of a portrait of George Washington have been removed. You need to uncover them with the red spy glass. As you find each piece you will learn how it plays an important roll in the value of the painting and why the artist...
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Image One: Francisco Goya (1746 1828)
Biography and self-portrait of this great Spanish artist.