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St. Louis Art Museum: What Is Printmaking? See for Yourself

For Students 3rd - 8th
See a gallery of different types of prints and watch simple animations that illustrate four printmaking methods: etching, lithography, block printing, and screen printing. Includes an exercise that challenges visitors to compare and...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History; Adam and Eve

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the German Renaissance engraving "Adam and Eve" by Albrecht Durer, with a description and images from the book.
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: H. C. Westermann Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Useful curriculm for introducing key sculpture and printmaking concepts focuses on the work of H. C. Westermann, whose work is often valued for its criticism of consumerism, militarism, and other social phenomena. Provides overviews and...
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Smithsonian Institution

Archives of American Art: Season's Greetings From Werner Drewes

For Students 9th - 10th
American painter Werner Drewes often made homemade cards to send to family and friends for the holidays. See examples of an artist's holiday designs all done with printmaking styles.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Works on Paper (American 18th Century)

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of prints, drawings and photographs at the National Gallery of Art from the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection. Nice examples of early American drawings and prints.
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Cartoon Prints

For Students 9th - 10th
A gateway to a collection of more than 500 prints, from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, which encompasses several forms of political editorializing. A wonderfully curated collection, with images, a summary of the historical...
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Urban Views: Realist Prints

For Students 9th - 10th
"Urban Views: Realist Prints and Drawings by Robert Henri and His Circle" was on view at the Brooklyn Museum in 2006. This page shares various selected works from the permanent collection works on paper that made up the exhibit.
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Technique of Intaglio Photogravure Printmaking

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows the process of Photogravure printmaking in step-by-step format. This is an advanced technique and uses graphic arts film and the historical process using chemicals and copper plates.
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Mississippi Museum of Art: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is the largest museum in the state, and has the largest collection of art by and about Mississippians. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings,...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Life of the People: Realistic Prints & Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of American prints and drawings from 1912-1948 indicating a sympathy for the condition of working people.
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Yale University

Yale University Art Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
The Yale University Art Gallery offers collections of Egyptian, Etruscan, and Greek art, early Italian panel paintings, European, Asian and African art, impressionist, modernist, and contemporary paintings and sculpture as well as...
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Coastal Arts Online Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting site filled with pictures of artwork from the Pacific Northwest coast. Great examples of masks, prints, paintings, carvings, totem poles, and much more!
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Terra Foundation for American Art

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A collection begun by Daniel J. Terra in the 1970's includes more than seven hundred prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures is presented online.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Shape and Line Remix

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Sol LeWitt used ideas as his artwork, a method of artmaking that has become known as Conceptual art. From each idea, many drawings, prints, or sculptures could be created. Students will use simple geometric shapes as creative starting...
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Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

For Students 9th - 10th
The Permanent Collection comprises some 17,000 artworks. This includes historic and contemporary, paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, video, as well as other materials that may be considered...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Prints and Photographs: Wpa Posters

For Students 9th - 10th
Showcased is an exhibition of 926 posters (1936 -1943) from the Federal Art Project poster division at the Federal Art Gallery. The posters were designed to publicize a variety of events, from community activities to education in...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition of Matisse's paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, from a pivotal period in the artist's career. With a numerous examples of the artist's work, biographical notes, compositional analysis, and video of Matisse at work.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Monotype is a unique form of printmaking wherein the artist makes only one print. This impressive collection displays American monoprints and outlines a bit about the history of the monotype in America. Includes information about the...
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Joslyn Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha features a collection that spans the ages from antiquity to the present, with emphasis on 19th and 20th century art from Europe and America. Native American art includes decorated objects, drawings, and...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Agnes Tait

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Agnes Tait is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her work with lithographic prints.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Eyeing America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Robert Cottingham takes you on a visual tour across America with his works of art. View his complete collection that showcases commercial signs.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Rembrandt Etchings

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metropolitan showcases all the etchings and drypoints in its collection by Rembrandt on this page. Here you can read about his lifelong experiments with printmaking and also take in interesting tidbits about each work separately.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Definition of "art" according to ArtLex, a dictionary of art terms. Includes links to other important terms, as well as a long list of quotations defining "art."
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Selected Photographs From the Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A tour of nine of the collections' newer photographs from the National Gallery of Art. These are from 1936 and before from artists like Bill Brandt, Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Charles Sheeler, and more.

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