Chapter One Examples
Learning About Art
Art timeline images for study and discussion.
Slide One
Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning,1930.
Oil on Canvas
35 inches by 59 3/4 inches
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Slide Two
Exekias, Dionysus in a Boat, c. 540 BCE.
Interior of an Attic black-figured Kylix.
Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Slide Three
Anonymous, Storage jar
Southwest Aboriginal: Western Apache or Navajo
19th century or 20th century. Willow, devil's claw or martynia
5 inches by 7 inches
McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Quebec
Slide Four
Anonymous (possibly by the scribe, Folchard), Lindau Gospels
(upper cover), c. 870. Abbey of St. Gall, Switzerland
13.75 inches by 10.5 inches
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY
http://www.themorgan.org/collections/collections.asp?id=70
Chapter Two Examples
Visual Communication
Art timeline images for study and discussion.
Slide One
Harriet Powers ( 1837 - 1911 ), Bible Quilt, 1895 – 1898.
American. Appliqued cotton with metallic yarns,
69 inches by 105 inches. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Slide Two
Hubert and Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432. Netherlands.
Oil on panel, Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent, Belgium.
Slide Three
Pieter Brueghel, Peasant Wedding, 1566. Netherlandish.
Oil on Panel, 44.5 inches by 63.5 inches.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Slide Four
Albrecht Dürer, The Great Piece of Turf, 1503.
German. Watercolor and tempera on paper,
15.75 inches by 12.25 inches.
Albertina, Vienna.
Slide Five
Maize God, from Temple 22, Maya, Copan, Honduras,
c. 775. Limestone, 35.3 inches by 21.3 inches.
British Museum, London.
Slide Six
Hsia Kuei, Remote View of Streams and Hills (Part)
(fl. 1195-1224), Song Dynasty
Handscroll, ink on paper, 18.3 inches by 350 inches.
Museum of the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Slide Seven
Jean Baptiste-Camile Corot, View of Venice, 1834.
French. Oil on canvas, 18.5 inches by 27.25 inches.
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA.
Slide Eight
Slide Six
Myron, Discus Thrower (Discoblos),
Roman copy of Greek bronze.
c. 450 BCE, life-size.
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Slide Nine
Hans Holbein, Edward VI as a Child, 1538.
German. Oil on panel, 22.5 inches by 17.25 inches.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Slide Ten
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self-Portrait, 1895.
American. Photograph. Library of Congress,
Washington, DC.
Slide Eleven
Hale Woodruff, From the Amistad Mutiny Series, c.1940.
American. Oil on canvas.
Slide Twelve
John F. Peto, The Poor Man's Store, 1885.
Oil on canvas, 36 inches by 25.5 inches.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Slide Thirteen
George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1846.
Oil on canvas, 38 inches by 48.5 inches.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Slide Fourteen
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937.
Oil on canvas, 137.4 inches by 305.5 inches.
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
Slide Fifteen
Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950.
Oil on canvas, 87 inches by 118 inches.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC