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Ashcan School
| John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
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http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/copley/index.html
- NGA (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC): 12 works, with biographical information and critical comments.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg60b/gg60b-main1.html
- NGA: "Watson and the Shark" (1778) : in-depth study
http://www.nga.gov/feature/watson/watsonhome.html
http://www.tate.org.uk/coll/cchtm/copleyj.htm
e.g."The Death of Major Peirson"
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/AWork?id=2455
http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/part2.html
- TIGERTAIL (Tigertail Virtual Museum)
"Boy with Squirrel"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/1.%20colonys/copley_boy_with_squirrel.jpg
- Artchive: reproductions of "Nicholas Boylston", "Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Mifflin", "Paul Revere", "Watson and the Shark" (1778). Use search engine
at http://www.artchive.com/
| Benjamin West (1738-1820)
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http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/west/
- "The Death of General Wolfe" (1770) http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/west/p-west4.htm
- "Death on a Pale Horse" (1790): http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/west/p-west5.htm
- NGA: a biography and 20 works, each with a brief guide.
-"The Battle of La Hogue" (c. 1778)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?45602+0+0
- Sheldon: "The Golden Age" (c. 1776): reproduction and comment.
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/West_B/PC.html
- Artchive: "The Death of General Wolfe" (1770). Use search engine at
http://www.artchive.com/
| Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
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http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/cwpeale/index.html
- "The Staircase Group" (1795)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/cwpeale/p-cwpeale3.htm
- "The Exhumation of the Mastodon" (1806-08)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/cwpeale/p-cwpeale8.htm
- MET: 50 Highlights: "George Washington" (ca. 1779–1781)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=2&full=0&item=97%2E33
- Fine-Art: 10 paintings
http://www-fa.c4systm.com/Fine-art/19th_Century/Peale_Charles_Willson/
- GAP: discussion of "Modecai Gist"
http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/part2.html
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/stuart/p-stuart1.htm
(also appears as thumbnail on home page NGA: http://www.nga.gov/
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=29600
- CGFA: 15 works with a biography
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=30800
including: portrait of "Patrick Tracey" (1784/1786), with comments.
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=49937+0+none
- CGFA: 5 paintings
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/t/t-3.htm#trumbull
including "The Death of General Warren … on 17 June 1775" (1786)
c. 1822, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/p/p-rapeale3.htm
- CGFA: "After the Bath" (1823).
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/p/p-rapeale3.htm
-Smithsonian: some paintings available on the web, including "Melons and Morning Glories" (1813)
including "Andrew Jackson" (1845)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?1131+0+0
and "Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely" (1818)
including: "Roseate Spoonbill" (1836)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/a/p-audubon1.htm
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/john%20JAMES%20AUDUBON.htm
- North Carolina Museum of Art: "Bald Eagle" ("White-headed Eagle") (1827-36)
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/collections/highlights/american/before1850/eagle_lrg.html
- Fine Arts Museums S.F.: "Barn Owl" (1833) (zoom in to 100% to enjoy amazing details.)
- Tigertail: "Bluejays"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/2.%20pre-civil%20war/audubon_bluejays.jpg
including "Penn's Treaty with the Indians" (c. 1840/1844)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?59640+0+0
and "Peaceable Kingdom" (1834)
- ArtLex: definition and examples from the work of important representatives.
(Search via index at http://www.artlex.com/)
http://mirror.tvd.be/cjackson/d/d-11.htm#durand
including "Kindred Spirits" (1849)
and "The Beeches"
- Tigertail: "The Beeches"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/2.%20pre-civil%20war/durand_the_beeches.jpg
- Arizona S.U. Museum: analysis of "The Hunter" by Karlyn Benson
http://asuam.fa.asu.edu/durand.htm
- Butlerart : discussion of "The Trysting Tree" (1868)
1836, Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=2&full=0&item=08%2E228
- Yale: 30 paintings including the five stages of "The Course of Empire"
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/cole/
The Course of Empire: The Savage Stage
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/cole/a28.JPG
The Course of Empire: The Pastoral Stage
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/cole/a25.JPG
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/cole/a23.JPG
The Course of Empire: Destruction
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/cole/a27.JPG
The Course of Empire: Desolation
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/cole/a24.JPG
- Hunter Museum of American Art: discussion of "Cabin in the Woods"
http://www.huntermuseum.org/thomascole.htm
- Butlerart: "Italian Landschap" (1839) with description
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/thomas DOUGHTY.htm
- Brian Yoder: 10 paintings and a short biography
http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/part3.html
- Tigertail: "The Catskills"
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=17570
- Butlerart: "Ship Starlight" (c. 1860): discussion
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/fitzhugh.htm
- Huntermuseum: "The Constitution in Boston Harbor" (c. 1848-1849)
http://www.huntermuseum.org/fitzhughlane.htm
- CGFA: 5 paintings, including "Tree-Master in Rough Sea" (1856)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/l/l-2.htm#lane
- Tigertail: "Owl's Head, Maine"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/2.%20pre-civil%20war/lane_owl%27s_head_maine.jpg
"Ships in Ice"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/2.%20pre-civil%20war/lane_ships_in_ice.jpg
including "Morning in the Tropics" (1877)
- CGFA: 5 paintings
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/c/c-8.htm#church
http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/part3.html
- Tigertail: "Tequedama Falls"
- Artchive: five reproductions including "Heart of the Andes", "Niagara",
"Rainy Season in the Tropics" (with dramatic close-ups). Use search engine
at http://www.artchive.com/
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/john_frederick_kensett_1816.htm
- Tigertail: "Coast Scene"
http://www.fineoldart.com/kensett.html
- CGFA: 3 paintings including one made 18 years after "Kauterskill Clove", on practically the same place:"October in the Catskills" (1880)
http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/g/p-gifford3.htm
- Albany Institute of History and Art: in-depth study of "Mount Merino and the City of Hudson in Autumn" (c. 1851-52)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=F&Transaction=201647999&Page=3
including: "Buffalo Lancing in the Snow Drifts – Sioux (1861/1869)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?50371+0+0
"The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas" (1844/1845)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?50373+0+0
and "La Salle Received in the Village of the Cenis Indians. May 6, 1686" (1847/1848)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?50366+0+0
- "Medicine Painter": exhibition showing George Catlin as the first artist to document the Indian tribes of the Upper Missouri
http://www.archives.uc.edu/exhibits/catlin/catweb.html
- CGFA: 3 paintings
http://mirror.bibl.u-szeged.hu/cgfa/c/c-5.htm#catlin
including "Buffalo Bull- A Grand Pawnee Warrior" (1832)
- Artchive: "Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap" and "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri." Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=2&full=0&item=97%2E34
- "Worthington Whittredge in His Tenth Street Studio" (1865): with description
http://www.reynoldahouse.org/whittr.htm
- Nat'l Museum of Am. Art: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" (mural study,
U.S. Capitol, 1861)
- Utha Museum of Fine Arts: "Lo! the Poor Indian" (1876)
http://www.utah.edu/umfa/images/beard.JPG
- CGFA: Selfportrait in the Studio (1860s)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/b/p-beard2.htm
"Phantom Crane" (1891)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/b/p-beard1.htm
- Tigertail: "The Phantom Crane" (1891)
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/3.%20post-civil%20war/beard_phantom_crane.1891.jpg
including "Niagara" (1869)
http://www.hol.gr/cjackson/bierstadt/p-bierstadt22.htm
and "Storm in the Rocky Mountains" (1869)
"Sunset Yosemite"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/3.%20post-civil%20war/bierstadt_sunset_yosemite.jpg
- Artchive: "Emigrants Crossing the Plains" (1867) Use search engine
at http://www.artchive.com/
including "Walt Whitman" (1887)
including "Swimming Hole"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/3.%20post-civil%20war/eakins_swimming_hole.jpg
"The Champion Single Sculls" (1871)
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/3.%20post-civil%20war/eakins_schmitt_scull.jpg
-Artchive: 4 paintings, including "The Gross Clinic" and "The Swimming
Hole." Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
- Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: 10 paintings and an introduction (from the Winslow Homer Exhibition (1996)
"The Gulf Stream" (1899)
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/3.%20post-civil%20war/homer_gulf_stream.1899.jpg
- Artchive: a biography and 28 paintings, including "Home, Sweet Home"
(1863), "Summer Night" (1890), "The Gulf Stream". Use the search engine
at http://www.artchive.com/
http://www.nga.gov/feature/moran/
from early paintings, such as "Salvator Rosa and the Brigands" (1860)
http://www.nga.gov/feature/moran/early2.html
to later work, such as "The Cliff Dwellers" (1899)
http://www.nga.gov/feature/moran/final1.html
and "Grand Canyon" (1912) :
"Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone" (1913)
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/3.%20post-civil%20war/moran_n2_grand_cyn_col.1913.jpg
- Artchive: 3 reproductions, including "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone"
(1913) Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
http://nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=27450
- Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of Am. Art: 28 paintings, including "Jonah" (1885)
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/images/1929/1929.6.98_1b.jpg
- Butlerart: "Roadside Meeting": discussion.
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/albert_pinkham_ryder_1847.htm
- Sheldon: "Hunter's Rest (1890) : discussion.
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Ryder_A/PC.html
- CGFA: 3 reproductions, including "Toilers of the Sea" and "Jonah" (1885)
- Artchive: 8 paintings including "The Flying Dutchman" (c. 1887) and
"Jonah" (c.1885). Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=2&full=0&item=67%2E187%2E123
- CGFA: a biography and 15 paintings, including "In the Studio Corner" (1881)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/chase/
- Adelson galleries : short biography and 3 paintings
- NGA: a biography and five works, including "The Rialto Bridge" (1883)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=9350
-Smithsonian National Museum of American Art: 5 paintings, 1 available: " Water Carriers, Venice" (1884)
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/images/1943/1943.11.1_1b.jpg
- Sheldon: "Laughing Boy" (1879), with note.
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Duveneck_F/PC.html
-CGFA: a selection of 3 paintings, including "Lady with a Red Hat"
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin2/target?/exhibitions/horo_041.htm&/exhibitions/horo_sargent.htm
- NGA: Horowitz Collection : "Gondoliers' Siesta" (1905)
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/horo_041.htm
- MET: 50 Highlights: " Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)" (1883–1884)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=2&full=0&item=16%2E53
- CGFA: brief biography and 15 works
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/sargent/
including "Mrs. Henry White" (1883)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/sargent/p-sargen16.htm
and "Oyster Gatherers of Cancale" (1878)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/sargent/p-sargent8.htm
- Spartacus Schoolnet: brief discussion of "Gassed" (1918), Sargent's famous painting representing the horror of chemical warfare.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTsargent.htm
- Artchive: 9 paintings. Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
"Roundup the Bear"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/3.%20post-civil%20war/remington_the_bear.jpg
" Breaking Horses "
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/f.%20new%20world/3.%20post-civil%20war/remington_breaking.jpg
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/horo_over.htm
- Smithsonian: "American Impressionism": 52 pictures of a travelling exhibition of American Impressionism, with short captions for each reproduction. Included are, a.o. Cassatt, Hassam, Twachtman, Weir.
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/t2go/1ai/image-frame.html
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
John Twachtman (1853-1902)
Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919)
James A. McNeil Whistler (1834-1903)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=4850
including " Afternoon Tea Party" (1890-91)
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/cassatt/cassatt-46449.0.html
- Webmuseum Paris: biography, 15 of her works and some interesting links.
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Mary Cassatt exhibition organized in 1999.
http://www.boston.com/mfa/cassatt/
- Artchive: 8 of her paintings including: "Lydia Crocheting". Use search
engine at http://www.artchive.com/
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch
including " Poppies, Isles of Shoals " (1890), pastel on brown paper
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/horo_024.htm
-CGFA: biography and 15 paintings.
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/hassam/
- Sheldon: "Fifth Avenue, April morning 1917": in-depth study.
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Hassam_C/TO.html
- Reynolda House, Museum of American Art: short biography and 1 painting.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/horo_045.htm
- Cincinnati Art Museum: virtual exhibit
http://cincinnati.com/twachtman/postcard.html
including "Niagara Falls"
http://cincinnati.com/twachtman/niagarafalls.html
- Butlerart: discussion of "Landscape" (1889).
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/john_henry_twachtman_1853.htm
- Sheldon: discussion of "Bark and Schooner"
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Twachtman_J/SSI.html
- Hunter: discussion of "Snow Scene" (c.1890)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=32800
- Butlerart: "The Oldest Inhabitant" (1876): with description by Doreen Bolger.
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/julian_alden_weir_1852.htm
James A. McNeil Whistler (1834-1903)
"Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl" (1862)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=F&Transaction=326013417&Page=1
- The Frick Collection: "The Ocean" (1866)
http://www.frick.org/html/pntg78f.htm
- Butler: interesting analysis of "The Thames from Battersea Reach" a painting "formerly attributed" to Whistler, but probably from (or completed by) his pupil Greaves.
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/JAMES%20ABBOTT%20MCNEILL%20WHISTLER.htm
- Artchive: text by Robert Hughes (from American Visions) and 23 paintings, including "Arrangement in Grey and Black No1: Portrait of the Painter's Mother" (1871), "Nocturne in Blue and Gold -- Old Battersea Bridge" (1872-77), "Nocturne: Blue and Gold – St Mark's, Venice" (1879-80). Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
- Webmuseum Paris (part of "The Webmuseum Network") situates Whistler in an international context; 2 paintings, including "Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother" (1871).
- Artcyclopedia: definition http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/ashcan-school.html
- Artlex: brief description of the "Ashcan School" with links to the works of its most important representatives.
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/ashcan.html
Robert Henri (1865-1929)
George Luks (1866-1933)
John Sloan (1871-1951)
William James Glackens (1870-1938)
George W. Bellows 1882-1925
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/RH/home.html
- NGA: biography and 8 works
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=14700
including "Snow in New York" (1902)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?42656+0+0
- CGFA: a selection of 5 works.
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/h/h-6.htm#henri
- Museum of Texas Tech University : biographical note and 1 painting.
http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/taos/bios/henri.htm
- Reynolda House: 2 works and links to other sites on Robert Henri.
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=19300
- biographical note by Cantor Roughton Galleries.
http://fineoldart.com/Luks.html
- Butlerart: ‘The Cafe Francis’ (c. 1906): with description by Mark Thistlethwaite
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=28550
- Butler: "Recruiting in Union Square" (1909), with description.
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/john_sloan_1871.htm
- de Young: 15 etchings with descriptions
http://search.famsf.org/4d.acgi$Search?list&=1&=john&=And&=Yes&=sloan&=&=&=Yes&=Yes&=f
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/g/g-6.htm#glackens
- NGA: "Family Group" (1910/1911)
http://nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=52161+0+none
- Butlerart: "Still Life with Three Glasses" (c. mid-1920s) : discussion by Nannette V. Maciejunes.
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/william_james_glackens_1870.htm
- Hunter Museum: article by William Henning, Jr. & Ellen Simak.
http://www.huntermuseum.org/williamglackens.htm
- Artchive: 3 paintings, including "Hammerstein's Roof Garden" (1901);
Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
http://nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=2050
including "Both Members of This Club" (1909)
http://nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=30683+0+none
"The Lone Tenement" (1909)
http://nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=46275+0+none
- Butlerart: reproduction and descripton of "Geraldine Lee #2" (1914)
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/george_wesley_bellows_1882.htm
- Hunter: analysis of "The White Fence, (1920)
- Artchive: "Cliff Dwellers" (1913), "A Morning Snow – Hudson River" and "Stag at Sharkey's." Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/gallery/g_5.3.club.html
and "Forty-Two Kids" (1907)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/gallery/g_5.3.kids.html
- Artlex: description, with a selection of works from representative
artists:
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/armoryshow.html
including "Horse Skull on Blue" ( )
http://asuam.fa.asu.edu/okeefe8.jpg
and "Cow's Skull With Calico Roses" (1931)"
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~trag/eye/arthub/okeefe/okeefe06.jpg
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/B/wyeth.html
including "Christina's World"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/B/NAmerican/a.%20pre%20WW%20II/wyeth_christinas_world.1948.jpg
and "Distant Thunder"
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/B/NAmerican/a.%20pre%20WW%20II/wyeth_distant_thunder.jpg
- CGFA: 5 paintings, including "The Coot Hunter" (1941)
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/w/p-wyeth4.htm
- Reynolda House : "Farm Pond" (1957) and other farm scenes, with discussion.
http://www.reynoldahouse.org/farmpond.htm
-Artchive: text and a selection of 5 paintings, including "Christina's World" (1948)
(search index of http://www.artchive.com)
- Artcyclopedia: Definition:
The three best-known regionalists were Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart
Curry, and Grant Wood, the painter of the best-known and one of the greatest
works of American art, American Gothic."
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/modern/73pc_wood.html
- PBS: American Gothic: from the series American Visions
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/gallery/g_6.8.gothic.html
"Spring Turning" (1936)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/gallery/g_6.8.spring.html
- CGFA: 5 paintings, including his famous "American Gothic"
http://www.hol.gr/cjackson/w/w-4.htm#wood
- NGA: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=21&full=0&item=50%2E117
- Artcyclopedia: definition
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/social-realism.html
Social Realism is a rather pejorative label in the United States, where
overtly political art in general, and socialist politics in particular,
are extremely out of favor.
- Whitney: "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" (1931-32)
http://whitney.artmuseum.net/images_art/31_05e_shahn.jpg
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/modern/75pc_hopper.html
- MET: "The Lighthouse at Two Lights" (1929), with description
- Artchive: Text about Hopper, and a selection of 32 art works.
enter search term via index at http://www.artchive.com
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/abstract-expressionism.html
"Abstract Expressionism is a form of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color. It is form of non-representational, or non-objective, art, which means that there are no concrete objects represented.
Now considered to be the first American artistic movement of worldwide importance, the term was originally used to describe the work of Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock.
The movement can be broadly divided into two groups: Action Painting,
typified by artists such as Pollock, de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Philip
Guston, put the focus on the physical action involved in painting; Color
Field Painting, practiced by Mark Rothko and Kenneth Noland, among others,
was primarily concerned with exploring the effect of pure color on a canvas."
(Artcyclopedia)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=7860
- Tate Galery:short biography, and two paintings with captions:
"Women Singing II" (1966)
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/AWork?id=7829
and "The Visit" (1966)
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/AWork?id=7828
- Artchive: a selection of 6 works. Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=17000
- Nat'l Museum of Am. Art: 5 paintings, including "Untitled" (ca. 1959)
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/images/1971/1971.259_1b.jpg
- North Carolina Museum of Art: Orange Outline (1955) with description
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/collections/highlights/20thcentury/20th/1950-2000/024_lrg.html
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=22700
e.g., "Automatism B", 1965-66
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=55756+0+none
- Tate: a selection of some 30 paintings.
http://www.tate.org.uk/coll/cchtm/motherwr.htm
- biographical article by Robert Chew and links to other sites.
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96jan/motherwell.html
- Mira Godard Gallery: a discussion of 2 paintings.
http://www.godardgallery.toronto.on.ca/mother.htm
- ASU Art Museum: discussion of "Running Elegy II, Red State" (1983)
http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/
- NGA: a selection of 8 paintings.
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=25100
"Number 1" (1950) (Lavender Mist)
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/20centpa/20centpa-55555.0.html
http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/pollockhome.html
- Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center: devoted to scholarship in 20th century American Art
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/ahaa/program.html
- "Homage to Jackson Pollock" article by Harry Hilson on the life and work of Jackson Pollock.
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/rothkosplash.html
including "No 10" (1950)
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/classic2.html
- NGA "Orange and Tan" (1954)
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/20centpa/20centpa-56086.0.html
- Artchive: interesting review Dr. Francis V. O’Connor of the Rothko retrospective (1998-99) and 10 reproductions. Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
- Sheldon: brief biography and discussion of "Yellow Band" (1956).
"Minimalism - A twentieth century style of art stressing the idea of reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines and textures. No attempt is made to represent or symbolize any other object or experience. It is sometimes called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, and rejective art. Precursors to Minimalism include the Russian Suprematists, such as Kasimir Malevich (Russian, 1878-1935). See Malevich's Black Square, c. 1923-1930, oil on plaster, 36.7 x 36.7 x 9.2 cm, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris."
http://members.aol.com/mindwebart3/page12.htm
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/images/1966/1966.107.20_1b.jpg
- de Young, S.F.: "Untitled" (1964)
- Tate Gallery: "Broadway" (1958)
http://www.columbia.edu/~eem13/index.html
E.g;: "Original Study for Sinjerli Variations" (1980)
http://www.columbia.edu/~eem13/sinjerli.fa.html
-de Young, S.F.: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1870-1970" and "Untitled. Serigraph Works" (1964)
http://search.famsf.org/4d.acgi$Search?list&=1&=frank&=And&=Yes&=stella&=&=&=Yes&=Yes&=f
- North Carolina Museum of Art: "Raqqa II" (1970), with description
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/collections/highlights/20thcentury/20th/1950-2000/036_lrg.html
- Reynolda House: "Double Gray Scramble" (1973), with description
http://www.reynoldahouse.org/doublegr.htm
- Tate Galery: large collection, including "Guadalupe Island, Caracara" (1979)
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pop.html
"Pop Art is a style of art which explores the everyday imagery which is part of contemporary consumer culture. Common sources include advertisements, consumer product packaging, celebrities, and comic strips. Leading Pop artists include Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein."
- impressive list of links to Pop Art representatives (from Masarykiana University in the Czech Republic).
- The Andy Warhol Home Page: excellent site on Warhol
- Butlerart : discussion of "Paul Jenkins" (1979)
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/andy_warhol_1931.htm
- Sheldon: reproduction and discussion of "Vegetarian Vegetable" (1969), one of his Warhol's Campbell Soup silkscreen productions.
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Warhol_A/FFT.html
- Guggenheim: special exhibit: Andy Warhol's "The Last Supper"
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/warhol/index.html
- Artchive: life and 16 works. Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
and "Reservoir" (1961)
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/images/1969/1969.47.70_1b.jpg
- de Young, SF: 14 art works
http://search.famsf.org/4d.acgi$Search?list&=1&=robert&=And&=Yes&=rauschenberg&=&=&=Yes&=Yes&=f
including "Storyline I" (1968), http://search.famsf.org/4d.acgi$Record?29902&=list&=1&=robert&=And&=7&=0&=keywords&=Yes&=rauschenberg%20&=&=&=Yes&=&=f
- Artchive : a selection of 8 paintings. Use search engine at http://www.artchive.com/
- "Robert Rauschenberg’s Anagrams": a discussion of Rauschenberg’s style by Pace Wildenstein.
http://www.pacewildenstein.com/rauschenberg/release.html
- "Rauschenberg's Signature on the Century": article by Marlena Donohue in The Christian Science Monitor (1997), with further links to Raushenberg sites.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/11/28/feat/arts.1.html#top
- Roy Lichtenstein Foundation: has turned the recent Solo Exhibitions into virtual tours. Has a large suvey of Lichtenstein art works in other museums:
http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/
- NGA: "Look Mickey" (1961)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?70272+0+0
- Met: "Stepping Out" (1978)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=21&full=0&item=1980%2E420
- Minneapolis Museum of Art: 2 art works: "Vicki" (1964)
http://www.artsmia.org/uia-bin/uia_doc.cgi/query/1?uf=uia_nwjNcn
and "Brush Strokes" (1967)
http://www.artsmia.org/uia-bin/uia_doc.cgi/query/2?uf=uia_nwjNcn
Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum : 50 Highlights
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view50.asp?dep=19
"The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present. The collection of more than 15,000 works is largely European and American, with some representation of other parts of the world, particularly Japan.
Included are "The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, with masterpieces of the Photo-Secession movement (1902–17) and related Pictorialist photography; The Ford Motor Company Collection of American and European photography between the World Wars; and the personal archive of the American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975). (…)
Nearly every permutation of technique and support is represented: early experimental "photogenic drawings" of the 1830s; daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes (one-of-a-kind images exposed on silver-plated copper, glass, and iron, respectively); salted paper prints from paper negatives; albumen silver prints from glass negatives; gum bichromate prints; platinum and palladium prints; gelatin silver prints (the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century); and a variety of types of color photography. Each of the highlights is described in detail."
Some examples:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=1997%2E382%2E41
Carleton E. Watkins (1829–1916) The Town on the Hill, New Almaden, 1863 (Albumen silver print from glass negative);
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=1989%2E1083
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) Thomas Eakins and J. Laurie Wallace, 1883 (Platinum print)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=43%2E87%2E23
Lewis Hine (1874–1940) Newsies at Skeeter Branch, St. Louis, Missouri, 1910 (Gelatin silver print)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=1970%2E727%2E1
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918
(Platinum print)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=1997%2E61%2E25
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) Georgia O'Keeffe, 1921
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=1997%2E61%2E19
Man Ray (1890–1976) Compass, 1920 (Gelatin silver print)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=1987%2E1100%2E40
Charles Sheeler (1883–1965) Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company, 1927
(Gelatin silver print)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=1987%2E1100%2E1
Walker Evans (1903–1975) Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama, 1936 (Gelatin silver print)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=1988%2E1030
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) Self-portrait, 1979 (Instant color print)
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=19&full=0&item=1995%2E251
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/index.html
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/amerphotos.html
"American Photographs: The First Century presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from this collection, including Civil War images by George Barnard and the Mathew Brady Studio, spectacular western landscapes by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, as well as Pictorialist scenes by Clarence White and Gertrude Kasebier. A deliberate effort has been made to mix familiar and lesser-known photographers, styles of work, and a variety of processes in order to explore ideas about the influence of photographic culture in America during the years from 1839 to 1939."
Some of the paintings are discussed by scholars and photographs. For each photograph there is a detailed description of the technique and the historical background. Examples:
Alex Hesler: "Falls of Minnehaha, Minnesota" (ca. 1855 salted paper print)
Watkins: "San Francisco, Corner of California and Montgomery Streets" (ca. 1857 coated salted paper print)
Brady Studio: "The Sick Soldier" (ca. 1863)
John L. Dunmore and George Critcherson: "Hunting by Steam in Melville Bay" (1869)
Charles Bierstadt: "The Rapids, Below the Suspension Bridge" (ca. 1870)
George Barker: "The Falls in Winter (ca. 1888)
William Bell : "Grand Canyon, Colorado River, near Paria Creek" (1872)
"The Museum began to collect photographs in 1930 and established the department in 1940; its holdings of more than 25,000 works dating from approximately 1840 to the present constitute one of the most important collections of photography in the world. As diverse as photography itself, the collection includes work not only by artists, but also by journalists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and amateurs."
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Photography
http://www.sfmoma.org/collections/collections_photography.html
"SFMOMA retains one of the oldest and most distinguished collections of photography in the world,having begun acquiring work in 1935. The images in the Museum's collection date from the 1840s, with works representing each of the major developments and movements in photography from nineteenth-century photographers to contemporary artists."
E.g., Man Ray: "Untitled" (1933) (abstract self-portrait).
http://www.sfmoma.org/collections/photography/ma_coll_manray.html
http://www.nga.gov/feature/stieglitz/asmain.htm
- "The Photo Secession": article on one of Stieglitz's projects.
the collection contains 476 photos, (ca. 1930-1939). For more information on the WPA see WPA Life Histories (http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html)
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/p169/p169.html
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