“Picturing America”
Online Sources
2/3/10
http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/112938/picturing-america-online-list-10
1a. Pottery and Baskets, c. 1100-c. 1960
1. National Museum of the American Indian’s online exhibitions @
http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=exhibitions&second=online
2. National Museum of Natural History’s Alaska Native Collections @
http://alaska.si.edu/
1b. Mission Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, 1755
Art of the Americas:
2.F. The Sport of Life: The Mesoamerican Ballgame @ http://www.ballgame.org/
3. The DeYoung Museum’s Maya Stela online interactive @
http://www.famsf.org/files/collectionicons/index1.html
4. The National Gallery of Art’s Courtly Art of The Ancient Maya @
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/maya/lifeatcourt.shtm
2a. John Singleton Copley’s Paul Revere, 1768
6. The National Portrait Gallery’s American Origins: 1600-1900 online exhibition @
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/origins/index.html
6.F. The Gibbs Museum of Art’s Interactive:
Henriette Charlotte Chastaigner by Henriette Johnston
@ http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/explore/interactions.html
7. Worcester Art Museum’s Early American Paintings Timeline @
http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/
7.F. The Met’s Timeline Colonial Essays @
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=4
8. New Britain Museum of American Art’s American Art Timeline @
http://www.nbmaa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=112
9. Monticello Foundation’s Monticello Explorer @
http://explorer.monticello.org/
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10. The Getty’s Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment exhibition @
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/houdon/explore_bire.html
11. The Peabody Essex Museum’s Samuel McIntire: Carving An American Style
exhibition @ http://www.pem.org/mcintire/
12. The Peabody Essex Museum’s Luxury and Inovation: Furniture Masterworks by
John and Thomas Seymour exhibition @ http://www.pem.org/luxury/
2b. Silver from the 18th, 19th, & 20th Centuries
13. The Chipstone Foundation’s online exhibitions @
http://www.chipstone.org/framesetspecialprojects.html
3a. Grant Wood’s The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931
14. Cedar Rapids Gallery of Art’s Grant Wood Gallery @
http://www.crma.org/Content/Grant_Wood/Gallery.aspx
3b. Gilbert Stuart’s George Washington, (Lansdowne Portrait), 1796
15. The National Portrait Gallery’s George Washington: A National Treasure @
http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/portrait/index.html
15.F. Shay’s Rebellion & the Making of a Nation: From Revolution to Constitution @
http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/
15.G. The Seattle Art Museum’s John Trumbull Paints The American Revolution @
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/interactives/yale_rollover/default.asp
4a. Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851
15.H. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Explore & Learn, George Washington
Crossing the Delaware @ http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/gw/el_gw.htm
4b. Hiram Powers’ Benjamin Franklin, 1862
5a. Thomas Cole’s View From Mount Holyoke (The Oxbow), 1836
5b. N.C. Wyeth’s Cover Illustration for The Last of the Mohicans, 1919
16. The National Gallery’s George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings online exhibition
@ http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/brush/index.shtm
17. National Museum of the American Indian’s (New York) Remix: New Modernities in
a Post-Indian World @ http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/remix/
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6a. John James Audubon’s American Flamingo, 1838
18. The University of Pittsburgh’s Audubon online feature @
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/a/audubon/
19. PBS’ American Masters: “John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature”@
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-jamesaudubon/introduction/106/
20. The Royal Collection’s Amazing Rare Things: Natural History In The Age Of
Discovery @ http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/amazingrarethings/
21. Museum Victoria’s (Australia) Caught and Coloured: Zoological Illustrations from
Colonial Victoria @ http://museumvictoria.com.au/caughtandcoloured/
22. The Getty’s Oudry’s Painted Menagerie exhibition online feature @
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/oudry/
23. National Wildlife Art Museum @ http://www.wildlifeart.org/
24. University of Utah’s Western Soundscapes Archive @ http://westernsoundscape.org/
6b. George Catlin’s Catlin Painting the Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa---Mandan,
1861/1869
25. George Catlin @ http://catlinclassroom.si.edu/
7a. Thomas Cole and Others’ State Capitol, Columbus, Ohio, 1838-1861
7b. George Caleb Bingham’s The Country Election, 1852
8a. Albert Bierstadt’s Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California, 1865
26. The Mythic West and 19th Century Photographs of the West @
http://www.thirdview.org/3v/reference/
27. The Getty’s Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography
@ http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/dialogue_giants/
28. The Autry National Center’s Yosemite: Art Of An American Icon @
http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/yosemite/
8b. Black Hawk’s “Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger book, 1880-1881
29. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Lakota Winter Counts online
exhibition @ http://wintercounts.si.edu/
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9a. Winslow Homer’s The Veteran in a New Field, 1865
30. The Art Institute of Chicago’s Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light
online exhibition @ http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/homer/
9b. Alexander Gardner’s Abraham Lincoln, February 5, 1865
30.F. Cornell University Library online volume of Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book
of the [Civil] War@ http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/7milVol/index.html
10a. Augustues Saint-Gaudens’ Robert Shaw Memorial, 1884-1897
31. The National Gallery of Art’s Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Memorial to Robert Gould
Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment @
http://www.nga.gov/feature/shaw/home.shtm
10b. Quilts: 19th through 20th Centuries
32. The International Quilt Study Center and Museum’s Online Interactive @
http://explorer.quiltstudy.org/#/browse/
33. The Art of Gee’s Bend @ http://www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/
11a. Thomas Eakins’s John Biglin in a Single Scull, c. 1873
11b. James McNeill Whistler’s The Peacock Room, 1876-1877
33.F. The Freer Gallery’s The Peacock Room online feature and James McNeill Whistler
Interactive @ http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online.htm#
12a. John Singer Sargent’s Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler, 1893
12b. Childe Hassam’s Allies Day, May 1917, 1917
13a. Walker Evan’s Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1929
13b. Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Autumn Landscape—The River of Life, 1923-1924
14a. Mary Cassatt’s The Boating Party, 1893/1894
14b. Joseph Stella’s Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1919-1920
15a. Charles Sheeler’s American Landscape, 1930
34. Charles Sheeler Across Media exhibition @
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/sheeler/index.shtm
35. The Phillip’s Collection’s American Art Timeline @
http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/index.htm
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36. The Whitney Museum of American Art’s
American Collection @ http://whitney.org/learning/gallery/index.php
15b. William Van Alen’s The Chrysler Building, 1926-1930
16a. Edward Hopper’s House by the Railroad, 1925
37. The National Gallery’s Edward Hopper online exhibition @
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/hopper/introduction/index.shtm
38. The National Gallery’s Later the Same Evening: an opera inspired by five paintings
of Edward Hopper (podcast of one song)@ http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm
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39. The Seattle Art Museum’s Hopper’s Women online interactive @
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=14365#
16b. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, 1935-1939
17a. Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series, no. 57, 1940-1941
The Phillip’s Collection online Interactive selections @
40. Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series @
http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/over_the_line/index.html
41. Jacob Lawrence: Over Line
http://www.phillipscollection.org/migration_series/index.cfm
42. The Whitney Museum of American Art’s Jacob Lawrence Exploring Stories @
http://whitney.org/jacoblawrence/
43. Spencer Museum of Art’s Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist exhibition
@ http://www.aarondouglas.ku.edu/exhibition/
43.F. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, “In Motion, The AfricanAmerican Migration Experience” website@ http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
17b. Romare Bearden’s The Dove, 1964
44. The Art of Romare Bearden = http://www.nga.gov/feature/bearden/index.shtm
18a. Thomas Heart Benton’s The Sources of Country Music, 1975
44.F. The New Britain Museum, “The Murals of Thomas Hart Benton” online exhibition
@ http://www.nbmaa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=89
18b. Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, 1936
45. The Library of Congress’ Dorothea Lange and Migrant Workers @
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html
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46. The Oakland Museum of Art’s Dorothea Lange Archive @
http://www.museumca.org/global/art/collections_dorothea_lange.html
47. The Getty’s About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange and Horace Bristol’s
California @ http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/lange/
48. The University of Indiana’s The People’s America: Farm Security Administration
Photographs @ http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/online_modules/fsa/fsa.html
19a. Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech, The Saturday Evening Post, 1943
49. The National Archives, ‘Four Freedoms’ segment of the “Powers of Persuasion” site
[with clips of FDR’s, radio broadcast speech, Rockwell’s posters, etc.} @
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/four_freedoms/four_freedoms.ht
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19b. James Karales’ Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965, 1965
50. National Portrait Gallery’s Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American
Portraits exhibition @ http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/motto/index.html
51. The Civil Rights Digital Library @ http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/home/
20a. Richard Diebenkorn’s Cityscape 1, 1963
52. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s online exhibitions @
http://www.sfmoma.org/education/edu_online.html
Voices and Images of California Art
20b. Martin Puryear’s Ladder for Booker t. Washington, 1996.
53. The Museum of Modern Art’s Martin Puryear online exhibition @
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2007/martinpuryear/
54. The Columbus Museum of Arts’s Aminah’s World @
http://aminahsworld.org/
55. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Kerry James Marshall Art in The
Atrium Project @ http://www.sfmoma.org/pages/interactive_features
56. The Gibbs Museum’s Interactions:
Denmark Vesey by Charles White
Sarah Remembered by Leo Twiggs
@ http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/explore/interactions.html
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American Post-1945:
57. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Explore Modern Art @
http://www.sfmoma.org/view/page.feature/explore
58. The Museum of Modern Art’s Multimedia Features @ http://www.moma.org/
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