Webliography Project
American Painting
By Robert D. Miller
I. GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
II. WEB OUTLINE
AMERICAN PAINTING
1) The Colonial Period
www.oldgloryprints.com/New%20Colonial.htm
Art of the Colonial Period; New for 2005! These prints have been recently released or
acquired by Old Glory Prints.
A. Whitney Museum of American Art
A Collection of world-renowned 18th, 19th and 20th-century American art.
B. Worcester Art Museum
Early American Paintings
C. Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 26th Street.
D. National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art, Washington houses one of the finest collections in the
world illustrating major achievements in painting and sculpture
2) The Federal Period
www.academic.reed.edu/am_studies/museum/earlyamart.htm
(Scroll halfway down the web page)
American Studies, Reed College, Colonial America, The New World and New Spain
A. The National Portrait Gallery
Public museum for the exhibition and study of portraiture and statuary depicting
people who have made contributions to the history, development, ...
3) Landscape Painting (American Landscape and Genre Paintings)
Landscape and genre painting within the framework of ...Elizabeth Johns, American
genre painting: the politics of everyday life.
A. The New-York Historical Society
Several of the landscape paintings will be organized around the theme The ...
The rise of genre painting in the 19th-century as another of America's ...
B. Landscape Portraiture
www.davis-art.com/artimages/slidesets
Davis Publications - Art books, art textbooks, art resources, text books, education,
teachers, curriculum, slides, art slides. Davis Publications - Textbooks, Davis Art
Images & Slides, School ...Art books, art textbooks, art resources, text books,
education, teachers, curriculum, slides, art slides
C. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Art books, art textbooks, art resources, text books, education, teachers, curriculum,
slides, art slides.
D. The Hudson River School
www.answers.com/topic/hudson-river-school
A group of American landscape painters active from about 1825 to 1875 whose
works, cited as an example of the tedious conventionality of genre pain
4) The Modern Era Masters
Modern Era Masters of American Painting
www.lieven.studentenweb.org/paintart.html
(Great source of info!)
American Painting - Part Three; Individual Artists (in chronological order)
A. The Early 20th Century
www.witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTH20thcentury.
Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet
Briar College, Virginia, USA
5) The Ashcan School
www.artcyclopedia.com/history/ashcan-school.html
Artists by Movement: The Ashcan School. New York City, 1908 to C.1913. The Ashcan
School was a group of artists who sought to capture the feel of Urban life in America.
A. Urban Life Imagery
www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/ashcan.htm
ArtLex on the Ashcan School; Background information, artists, resource links for
artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, and
aesthetics.
B. New York City
www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/G/Ge/George_Bellows.htm
“New York City urban life as depicted in art.” George Bellows ... for his bold
depictions of urban life in Quick Facts about: New York City ...Los Angeles
County Museum of Art Bellows' urban New York scenes depicted
6) The Armory Show of 1914
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/70.htm
Encyclopedia of Chicago; Encyclopedia ofChicago. Entries|Historical
Sources|Maps|Special Features|User's Guide.
A. Chicago
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org
Chicago history.
III. COMMENTARY
CONTEXT
I decided to choose the topic, American Painting, for my web project. I chose this topic because it is one I am familiar with and find interesting. Many years, during my undergraduate days, I enrolled in an upper-level art history course of the aforementioned title. I still own the textbook for the course (Prown, J.D., (1980).American Painting: From its Beginnings to the Armory Show. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.) and I used it as a guide when doing my web searches on the topic.
I jotted down the chapter titles as a starting point with which to work from when doing searches. Some of the chapter titles went on to become major subdivisions in my web while others chapter titles never panned out became dead ends. Each major subdivision produced at least two or three branches pointing to relevant subtopics.
SETTING
The most obvious setting that I would envision my web being used in would be an art history class. The audience that I would most likely envision my web being intended for would be college students; however, I might also consider middle school students and high school students – particularly those in art magnet schools or gifted magnet schools. The magnet schools tend to have more serious students and would therefore be more likely to actually use my web for the purpose of studying art history.