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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Fun and easy art-appreciation activities abound in this resource that features 75 American artists from colonial times to the present. A brief biography for each artist tells why his or her work is important, and a kid-tested art activity tries out the artist's approach"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
"American Visionaries presents masterworks from the Museum's unparalleled collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art. Underscoring the Museum's commitment to in-depth collecting across media boundaries, these selections were drawn from the Permanent Collection of nearly 13,000 works and highlight the careers of more than 280 of the 2,450 artists represented in the Museum.
Like the collection itself, the artists presented here...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"Illustrator by day, surrealist by night, Ted Geisel created a body of previously little-known work during his leisure hours that he called his 'Midnight Paintings,' and which is now known as 'The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss.' This irrepressible and soulful collection redefines Ted Geisel as an iconic American artist. For sixty years, his 'Secret Art' allowed Geisel to expand his artistic boundaries without the confines and pressures of commercial deadlines...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Roger Houston Ogden, an attorney and entrepreneur in New Orleans, has over the past quarter century assembled one of the finest collections of southern American art in the world. The Ogden Collection of Southern Art, which currently numbers more than 1,200 works, includes oil paintings, water-colors, drawings, sculptures, photographs, and other southern artworks dating from the early eighteenth century to the present. From that remarkable collection...
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Pub. Date
©2005
Description
"Different Views in Hudson River School Painting explores the art and artists who pioneered America's first native style of art and looked to the country's landscape for inspiration and meaning. Judith Hansen O'Toole's commentaries on artists' works and writings alongside reproductions of 120 paintings illuminate the aesthetic and philosophical principles of the Hudson River School painters. O'Toole discusses the shared iconography used by these painters,...
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