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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Hiram Powers

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Hiram Powers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture, and most famously his portrait busts of idealized figures.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Doris Ulmann

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Doris Ulmann is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her portrait photography.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Julius Vannerson

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Julius Vannerson is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with portraits.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Frank A. Rinehart

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Frank A. Rinehart is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his portrait paintings.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Romaine Brooks

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Romaine Brooks is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her use of a basic palette (black, white, and grays) and her own self-portrait.
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National Museum of Women in the Arts: Cecilia Beaux

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography of American realist painter, Cecilia Beaux. Also, includes a few examples of her portrait work.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Chuck Close

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Chuck Close in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Jo Davidson

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Jo Davidson is described here along with information on his contributions to art through portrait sculptures.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Inez Nathaniel Walker

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Inez Nathaniel-Walker is described here along with information on her contributions to art through portrait painting (with elements of self-portraiture).
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: William Ordway Partridge

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, William Ordway Partridge is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture (portrait busts and statues).
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Albert Sterner

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Albert Sterner is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his portrait paintings, his printmaking, and his illustrations.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edward R. Thaxter

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Edward R. Thaxter is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture (primarily portrait sculpture).
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Andrew John Henry Way

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Andrew John Henry Way is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his portrait and still life paintings.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Joseph Wood

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Joseph Wood is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his miniatures and portraits.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Waterman Wood

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Waterman Wood is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his portraits.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Henry Durrie

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, George Henry Durrie is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting. His influence is also notable in portrait painting and...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Malvin Gray Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on African American artist of the Harlem Renaissance Malvin Gray Johnson. In addition, an extensive listing of his works as...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Chambers

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Chambers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape and portraits. His landscape paintings famously depict the Hudson River...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ralph Earl

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Ralph Earl in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Herbert Katzman

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Herbert Katzman is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his paintings, which showed an influence of French Expressionism.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Henry Brintnell Bounetheau

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Henry Brintnell Bounetheau is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his local acclaim, apparent in his miniature paintings and his work with...
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Web Gallery of Art: Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, Marie

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, Marie", created by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1816 (Black chalk on reddish paper, 533 x 423 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Portrait of the Artist's Father

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Portrait of the Artist's Father", created by Pietro Ligariz (Oil on canvas, 98 x 70 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Artist With a Portrait of His Father

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Artist with a Portrait of his Father", created by Louis Michel Van Loo in 1762 (Oil on canvas, 129 x 198 cm).