Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art the painting "July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou" by the American impressionist painter Childe Hassam is profiled with a large image of the piece, a description, and links to related topics and artworks.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Surf, Isles of Shoals
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art the painting "Surf, Isles of Shoals" by the American impressionist painter Childe Hassam is profiled with a large image of the piece, a description, and links to related topics and artworks.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Avenue of the Allies, Great Britain
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art the painting "Avenue of the Allies, Great Britain" by the American impressionist painter Childe Hassam is profiled with a large image of the piece, a description, and links to related topics and artworks.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Edward Steichen Portraits
The National Portrait Gallery features an exciting collection of portraits by the former chief photographer of Conde Nast Publications which include "Vanity Fair" magazine, Edward Steichen.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: American Art: Edward Hopper: The Long Leg (1935)
A short description of the painting, The Long Leg, by Edward Hopper, which shows a sailboat moving peacefully through the waves at the seaside. Sailing was a favored theme in Hopper's work.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: American Art: George Caleb Bingham: In a Quandary (1851)
A brief narrative of the content of the painting, In a Quandary, by George Caleb Bingham, which shows boatmen on the Mississippi River relaxing at a game of cards. Boatmen such as these were one of Bingham's main themes.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: American Art: Mary Cassatt: Breakfast in Bed (1897)
Breakfast in Bed, painted by Mary Cassatt, shows a mother embracing her young daughter while lying in bed. The theme of motherhood, found in many of Cassatt's works, is noted in this brief article.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Grant Wood
View "American Gothic," with brief contextual notes and analysis.
Other
Keith Haring Foundation: Dance Party
A lesson plan for Grade 5 where they look at Keith Haring's Dance series and create a poster based on it.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Charles Willson Peale: Staircase Group
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents information, an image, and audio on the painting "The Staircase Group" by the 18th century American painter Charles Willson Peale.
American Indian Heritage Foundation
George Catlin Biography and Paintings
This excellent site provides a biography, personal quotes and a gallery of images of American artist George Catlin.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Jacob Lawrence
A painting by American artist Jacob Lawrence entitled The Wedding, accompanied by a short biographical profile.
Other
National Museum of Women in the Arts: Elizabeth Catlett
This site contains a profile of African American artist Elizabeth Catlett. Also included is a link to a page that displays a portfolio of her work.
Other
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Follow this link to the online home of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which specializes in American art. All major American artists are presented in its permanent collection, highlights of which can be viewed online.
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.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Block
View an image of "The Block". Text describes the artwork, the artist, and the context of the work.
Other
Biggs Museum of American Art
American art can be viewed by "current exhibition, the collection, and/or the galleries" all found on the front page at this site.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Warhol "Pop Art" Posters (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan looks at the pop art of Andy Warhol.
Other
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Located in Lincoln, NE. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden web site resources highlight its collection of American art. Find examples of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism,...
Other
Mead Art Museum
Located in Amherst, MA. The Mead Art Museum houses the art collections of Amherst College, some 14,000 works acquired since 1839. It includes one of the nation's finest collegiate collections of American art, also European art,...
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Georgia O'keeffe
Brief biographical entry on the life of American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe. She is best known for her abstract and still-life compositions.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Famous Americans: John James Audubon
Learn brief information on John James Audubon, famous American bird painter, who was featured on the one cent postage stamp.
Other
Art Out West
Three Southwestern artists and their work are displayed at this site. You will find lithographs, batiks, and paintings.
Curated OER
Portinari Murals at the Library of Congress
This site is on an unusual exhibit at the Library of Congress that focuses on the American imagination in the realm of the arts. Here you can find original documents and drawings in architecture, music, literature and more.