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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...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: Human Machines
An excerpt from efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management that describes how to make a human work like a machine; painter Thomas Anshutz's The Ironworkers' Noontime that suggests the cost of...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: The Ashcan School
This site has a description of the artists from this movement with links to their art in various museums.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Anshutz
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Thomas Anshutz. Anshutz worked with photographs for his paintings and was acquainted with cyanotype. The site, in addition to the...
Curated OER
The Ironworkers' Noontime
An excerpt from efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management that describes how to make a human work like a machine; painter Thomas Anshutz's The Ironworkers' Noontime that suggests the cost of...