Picturing+America

= Picturing America =

[|Picturing America]
== Through the National Endowment for the Humanities, //Picturing America// consists of examples of American art that demonstrate our country's history and character. At TJMS, we are fortunate enough to have large-scale reproductions of these works of art, which we will be using as we study different time periods and themes in U.S. history. Under each title, you will find websites associated with either the artist, the work of art itself, or local connections. ==

[|Picturing America On Screen] If you would like to see video clips about these works of art, click on this PBS website link above.

**1-A Various Artists, Pottery and Baskets, c. 1100 to c.1960** [|The Pottery Project: 2000 years- 20,000 vessels- An Official Project of Save America's Treasures] Spanning 2000 years of life in the unique environments of the American desert Southwest and northern Mexico, the collection reflects almost every cultural group in the region. Housed at Arizona State University, this collection—the largest and most comprehensive of its kind— has been designated an Official Project of the //Save America's Treasures// program, a public private partnership between the White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to celebrate and preserve our nation's cultural legacy. Click on the link above to find out about the rich heritage of pottery throughout America.

**1-B Various Artists, Mission Concepcion, San Antonio, Texas, 1755** [|San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (TX)] Visit this website about Mission Concepcion as well as three other Spanish missions near San Antonio that were built around the same time. In fact, the Alamo is located close to this historical park. Originally built in 1716, the mission was one of six authorized by the government to serve as a buffer against the threat of the French crossing the border into Spanish territory from Louisiana. Eventually, the mission was transferred from other parts of Texas to San Antonio in 1731.

[|Visit San Antonio] Find out more about the 5 Spanish missions located in and around San Antonio, Texas by clicking on the link above.

**2-A John Singleton Copley, //Paul Revere,// 1768** [|Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts] Click on the link above to find out more about this painting from the museum that houses it.

[|National Gallery of Art: John Singleton Copley] John Singleton Copley is famous for his portraits of prominent Bostonians during the colonial time period in America. Click on the link to the National Gallery of Art above to see twelve of his portraits.

[|Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution] Read more about the life and times of Paul Revere in this brief biography of the famous Patriot.

[|Paul Revere's Other Ride] Read about another less well-known ride by Paul Revere through the icy winds of New Hampshire.

**3-A Grant Wood, //The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,// 1931** [|University of Virgina American Studies Program: The World of Grant Wood] Visit UVA's American Studies site and find out more about Grant Wood. In this series of essays named "Going Back to Iowa: The World of Grant Wood," you will not only find out more about the artist, his work, and his life, but also you can view other examples of his work, including his iconic painting "American Gothic."

[|Grant Wood Art Gallery] Located in Anamosa, IA, the Grant Wood Art Gallery was established to educate Americans about the life and work of Grant Wood. On this website, you can find out more about the hometown of Grant Wood, the Grant Wood Art Festival, and information about buying prints, books, and memorabilia.

[|Cedar Rapids Museum of Art] If you are interested in regionalist artist Grant Wood, you’ve come to the right place! At the CRMA you can view the world’s largest collection of works by Grant Wood. A visit to the original Grant Wood Studio—located just blocks from the Museum—allows you to take a guided tour of the space where Wood lived and worked from 1924 to 1934.

**3-B Gilbert Stuart, //George Washington (the Landsdowne Portrait)//, 1796** **If you would like to find out more about George Washington, click on French and Indian War, American Revolution, or George Washington under the Navigation heading.** [|National Gallery of Art: Introduction to Gilbert Stuart] Although we are familiar with many of Gilbert Stuart's portraits of George Washington, you probably don't know much about the artist's life. Click on the link above to find out more about Gilbert Stuart.

[|George Washington: A National Treasure (Washington, D.C.)] The focal point of “George Washington: A National Treasure” is the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796. Senator and Mrs. William Bingham of Pennsylvania commissioned this full-length painting of Washington as a gift to the Marquis of Lansdowne, an English supporter of American independence. In late 2000, the British owner of the painting announced that he was going to put the painting up for sale. The Gallery then faced the daunting task of raising money to save this monumental icon for the nation. Appeals in the press and on television captured the attention of Fred W. Smith, chairman of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, who immediately understood the patriotic significance of Stuart’s masterpiece. A few weeks later, the trustees of the foundation announced their generous $30 million gift to the Gallery, which included support for this historic tour of Stuart’s Lansdowne //Washington// to the American public and ultimately a permanent place to display the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. To find out more about this painting and view an interactive version of it, click on the link above.

[|Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum (Rhode Island)] Not only is the Gilbert Stuart Museum a showplace for reproductions of the artist's most famous portraits, it is an authentically restored and furnished workingman's home and the site of the first snuff mill in America. The wooded homestead on the banks of the Mattatuxet Brook also features a partially restored grist mill.

[|The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Making Faces: Gilbert Stuart] Gilbert Stuart painted many portraits of George Washington which are featured in this special exhibition created at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

**4-A Emanuel Leutze, //W ashington Crossing the Delaware//, 1851** [|Explore Washington Crossing the Delaware- Mount Vernon] Produced by George Washington's Mt. Vernon, you can find out more about this pivotal event of the American Revolution through an interactive version of the painting.

[|Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Great Art on the Internet] Find out more about Emanuel Leutze and his paintings by clicking on the list of websites given through this art index.

[|The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Explore & Learn] Through the Metropolitan's Explore & Learn program, learn more about the composition and other artistic techniques incorporated into //Washington Crossing the Delaware//.

**4-B Hiram Powers, //Benjamin Franklin//, 1862** [|U.S. Senate Art & History Home: Benjamin Franklin] At age 53, Hiram Powers was the best known sculptor in the U.S. when he contracted to produce this full length marble portrait of Benjamin Franklin for the U.S. Senate. In 1858, the government offered Powers a commission of $20,000 to sculpt the Senate's Benjamin Franklin and a full-length statue of Thoams Jefferson for the House of Representatives.

[|Hiram Powers Online] Hiram Powers is one of the most well-known sculptors of the 19th-century. Click on the link above to find out more about the artist and his work as well as view many of his sculptures displayed in museums around the United States.

[|PBS: Benjamin Franklin] Conduct virtual experiments and find out more about one of our Founding Fathers by clicking on the link above. This interactive site is a companion site to a PBS series about Ben Franklin.

[|The Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, PA)] Although Franklin was originally from Boston, he moved to Philadelphia as a teenager. Throughout the city, you can find many historic buildings associated with his name. In 1824, the Franklin Institute was established as the first professional organization of mechanical engineers and professional draftsmen in the United States. Over the years, the Institute has evolved into a center of exploration, discovery,technology, and education including the King Tut Exhibition.

**5-A Thomas Cole, //View from Mount Holyoke (The Oxbow//), 1836** [|Cedar Grove: The Thomas Cole National Historic Site*] In 1825, Thomas Cole settled at Cedar Grove, which is a farm in the Catskill village in New York state**.** Due to its location, Cole was inspired by the views of the Catskills, which are incorporated in some of his works.

[|National Gallery of Art] Located in Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art houses twelve of Thomas Cole's works, including the series //The Voyage of Life (Childhood, Manhood, Old Age, and Youth).//

[|Catskill Archive: Where the history of the Catskill Mountains lives...] You can find the funeral oration for Thomas Cole given by William Cullen Bryant before the National Academy of Design in New York City on May 4, 1848 on this website.

[|Biographical information about Thomas Cole] You can find out more biographical information about Thomas Cole as well as links to online articles about him and other Hudson River School artists and images of his other works.

[|Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)- Thomas Cole] Thomas Cole's //View from Mount Holyoke// is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. However, this painting is one of many Cole's works at the Met. Click on some of his other paintings to get a sense of how the Hudson River Valley was portrayed as the United States was finding its own identity on the world stage.

**6-A John James Audubon, //American Flamingo//, 1838** [|New Jersey Audubon Society] The New Jersey Audubon Society fosters environmental awareness and a conservation ethic among New Jersey's citizens; protects New Jersey's birds, mammals, other animals, and plants, especially endangered and threatened species; and promotes preservation of New Jersey's valuable natural habitats. Through this website, you can find out more about 34 nature preserves located throughout New Jersey.

[|National Audubon Society] Audobon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. Through this website, you can find out more about environmental issues and the U.S. government's position on them.

[|John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove (Audubon, PA)] Audubon's first home in America is now a museum and wildlife sunctuary operated by the National Audubon Society.

[|American Masters: John James Audubon] On this website associated with the PBS series //American Masters//, you can find more biographical information about Audubon.

[|John J. Audubon Biography] On this website, you can find biographical information and images of the ornithologist, painter, and naturalist with links to a full text biography by John Burroughs.

[|National Gallery of Art- Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from The Birds of America] Although this exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery of Art, you can still see many of Audubon's works on the website.

**7-B George Caleb Bingham, //The County Election//, 1852** [|Vote: The Machinery of Democracy] //Vote: The Machine of Democracy// traces the voting process in America. Found on the Smithsonian National Museum of History website, this interactive feature includes an image and discussion of Bingham's painting, //The County Election//. Click on "Launch The Flash Interactive Exhibition," to begin your electronic journey.

[|George Caleb Bingham- Artist of Missouri and the American Frontier] This website is dedicated to Bingham, including a brief biography, many images of his paintings, a bibliography, and a list of additional resources.

**8-A Albert Bierstadt, //Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California//, 1865** [|Albert Bierstadt Paintings] Although this website does not contain much information surrounding the creation of Bierstadt's paintings, it does provide thumbnail images of over 875 paintings by Bierstadt as well as a brief biography.

[|New World Encyclopedia: Albert Bierstadt] This website contains a biographical overview of the artist's life, images of Bierstadt's paintings, and links to articles. The website is set up similarly to Wikipedia.

[|The New York Times: A Long-Lost Painting by Bierstadt is Found] On June 11, 1990, //The New York Times// reported that a major 1858 painting of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland by Albert Bierstadt was found among thousands of artworks, antiques, coins and stamps in the home of a near-recluse in Exeter, RI. Read more about this amazing discovery by clicking on the link to the article above.

[|For Bierstadt's Eyes Alone] This copy of an essay entitled "For Bierstadt's Eyes Alone," was written by Mary Terence McKay. Originally, it was included in an illustrated catalogue for the exhibition //Albert Bierstadt// held from August 7, 1998 to September 7, 1998 at the Zaplin/Lampert Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

[|Birmingham Museum of Art] If you ever get the chance to travel to Birmingham, Alabama, visit the Birmingham Museum of Art where //Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California// is displayed as part of its American Art collection. The Birmingham Museum of Art provided material to the //Resource Library Magazine// for this article related to the history of the painting.

**8-B Black Hawk, "Sans Arc Lakota" Ledger Book, 1880-1881** [|Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY] See more of Chief Black Hawk's drawings at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY, which is where the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is located. The Thaw collection of American Indian art is housed in the new American Indian Wing. Discover more about the art, culture, traditions, and heritage of the Lakota Indians by clicking on the link above.

[|Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee- HBO films] Watch the trailer and interviews of cast members from this HBO movie starring Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, and Anna Paquin, which is based on the 1971 book by Dee Brown. Beginning with the Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the movie intertwines the unique perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman, né Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor; Sitting Bull, the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land - the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes, one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs.

[|Lakota Winter Counts Online Exhibit] Visit this Smithsonian website about the Lakota tribe and how they recorded time and their history through drawings of memorable events on calendars named winter counts. Make sure that your volume is turned up on your computer so you can listen to the stories of the past.

[|North, South, East, West: American Indians and the Natural World] Did you know that Lakota means "friends"? Find out more about the Lakota tribe living in the heartland of America.

**9-A Winslow Homer, //The Veteran in a New Field//, 1865** [|Philadelphia Museum of Art: Winslow Homer] At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, there are eight of Homer's paintings which are part of the American Art collection. Click on any one of the images of the eight paintings to find out more about its creation.

[|Princeton University Art Museum] As you scroll through the list of paintings in the American Art Collection at Princeton University, you will see many works of art associated with the //Picturing America// collection by such artists as John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, and Childe Hassam, If you click on page 14, you will see one of Winslow Homer's paintings, //At the Window//, which is one of a few paintings, sketches, and illustrations that are present at the museum.

[|Winslow Homer- Collections Online- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution] This site provides access to the papers of Winslow Homer that were digitized by the Archives of American Art in 2005. You can view 196 images found in this collection online.

[|Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art] From July 3, 2005 to February 26, 2006, more than fifty paintings, drawings, prints, and watercolors in the Gallery's Homer collection were on view at the National Gallery of Art, East Building Mezzanine. You can view a slide show of this exhibition online by clicking on the link above.

[|Winslow Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art] If you go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, you will be able to view //The Veteran in a New Field// in person. Click on page 2 to see it online. The museum houses many of Homer's paintings, sketches, and drawings which you can see online also.

[|Prints Old & Rare] During the Civil War, Homer was an illustrator for the popular newspaper, //Harper's Weekly//. Go to the drop-down menu under "Famous Artists" and choose Winslow Homer. Then, click on any of the titles to view more of Homer's work.

**9-B Alexander Gardner, //Abraham Lincoln//, February 5, 1865** [|Spartacus Educational: Alexander Gardner] Click on the link above to find an interactive summary of Alexander Gardner's life as well as links to online images of his work and to other resources available on the Internet.

[|Getty Museum: Alexander Gardner (CA)] Find out more about this Civil War photographer and admirer of Matthew Brady by clicking on the link above. Also, click on the images on the right side of this page to view nine of his photographs.

[|Picture History: Alexander Gardner] Click on the link above to view more than three hundred of Alexander Gardner's photographs, which include many photographs from the Civil War era.

[|Civil War Richmond: Alexander Gardner Catalog] This catalog is a listing of photographs made by Alexander Gardner and his operatives during the Civil War. The listings you will see here consist of the original captions [when known] with their original number assigned by Gardner. For images in which the original caption is not available, a derived caption is provided, enclosed in brackets. Over the years, well-meaning and/or misinformed historians have taken these photos out of their historical context by assigning new captions to them. Here, for the first time since these photos were originally published, the corpus of Gardner photographs will be re-assembled, in their intended order. By doing this, it is hoped that the importance of these photographs as primary sources will be re-established.

[|With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition at the Library of Congress] //With// //Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition// commemorates the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the nation’s revered sixteenth president. More than a chronological account of the life of Abraham Lincoln, the exhibition reveals Lincoln the man, whose thoughts, words, and actions were deeply affected by personal experiences and pivotal historic events.

**10-A Augustus Saint-Gaudens, //Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial//, 1884-1897** [|Saint-Gaudens National Historical Site] (NH) Discover the beautiful home, studios, and gardens of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of America's greatest sculptors. Over 100 of his artworks can be seen in the galleries, from heroic public monuments to expressive portrait reliefs, and the gold coins which changed the look of American coinage.

[|Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (MA)] The Robert Guld Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, located across Beacon Street from the State House, serves as a reminder of the heavy cost paid by individuals and families during the Civil War. In particular, it serves as a memorial to the group of men who were among the first African-Americans to fight in that war.

[|Nineteenth-Century America in Art & Literature: Art Inquiry: Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment] After examining this memorial, take the 5-question quiz given by the National Gallery of Art. Then, check your answers to see how much you know about the 54th Massachusetts Regiment and the Civil War.

[|Friends of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial and National Historical Site] Created by the Friends of teh Saint-Gaudens Memorial and National Historical Site, this website provides biographical information, many online images of his work, and portraits of the artist by other artists.

[|Index to Robert Gould Shaw's Pages] This website contains a brief biography of Robert Gould Shaw with links to information about the 54th infantry and letters from Shaw to his wife Annie.

[|National Gallery of Art- Shaw Memorial Home Page] In honor of the memorial's dedication a century ago, the full-scale plaster of the Shaw Memorial from Cornish, New Hampshire has been restored and placed on display at the National Gallery of Art through a joint effort by the National Gallery and the National Park Service, which oversees the sculptor's home as a national historic site. A duplicate bronze was cast from the original plaster and is displayed at Cornish. Click on the link above to find out more about Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

[|Exhibit: 54th Massachusetts Casualty List] The National Archives holds the records of the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment. The American Originals section of the Web site includes information about the original documents of the Regiment including photographs and a casualty list. [|Glory (1989)] Read a summary and review of this Oscar-winning film about the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.

**10-B Various Artists, Quilts of the 19th and 20th Centuries** [|The People's Place Quilt Museum (PA)] Located in Lancaster, PA, this exhibit showcases 25 contemporary quilts, selected for their outstanding design, color, and workmanship. A number of educational features about the art and practice of quiltmaking are included.

[|Susan McCord's Quilts] Very little is known about Susan McCord. Like most women of her time, she did not leave behind diaries and writings which would tell us what her life was like or what she thought of the world. While we do have some information which has been passed on, most of what we know about her has been gained from her quilts.

[|San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (CA)] At the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, there are exhibits and programs that promote the appreciation of quilts and textiles as art and provide an understanding of their role in the lives of their makers, in cultural traditions, and as historical documents.

[|International Quilt Study Center & Museum] The International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) was formed in 1997 as a result of the generous gift of nearly 950 quilts from the Ardis & Robert James Collection, along with a substantial pledge of financial support. The International Quilt Study Center and Museum is a treasure house of quilts from many countries and centuries as well as a leader in quilt studies. Today the International Quilt Study Center collection totals over 2300 quilts.

[|American Folk Art Museum (NYC)] Currently, at the Lincoln Square Branch of the American Folk Art Museum, there are two quilt exhibits on display for the public, "Recycling and Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s" and the "9/11 National Tribute Quilt" which are worth seeing in person.

[|Museum of the American Quilter's Society (KY)] The MAQS contains many quilts of the late 20th century of different types and genres. If you are trying to find out more about past and current trends in quiltmaking, this is the site to visit. [|The Virginia Quilt Museum] The Virginia Quilt Museum was founded with a mission to collect, preserve, and interpret quilts for the benefit of the public. The museum's primary focus is the roles and significance of quilts in the cultural life of American society and the aesthetic delight quilts provide. To further these goals, the museum has both permanent and rotating exhibits from the museum’s collection and quilts on loan from other contributors. The permanent collection owned by the museum ranges from early nineteenth century quilts to contemporary quilts, quilts made for practical purposes and those made as fine art. [|Freedom Quilting Bee] The Freedom Quilting Bee, an outgrowth of the civil rights movement, was established in 1966 in Alabama, as local people were losing their income and sometimes their homes on local farms after registering to vote. Father Francis X Walter, an Episcopal priest and civil rights worker, saw the potential economic value of quilts he saw hanging on a clothesline and helped the group get started. These quilts have been on display throughout the world via the Smithsonian Institute.

[|Harriet Powers: A Freed Slave Tells Stories Through Quilting] Read about the amazing story of Harriet Powers, a former slave born in 1837, and her storytelling through quilts. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find more links related to Harriet and her quilts. Currently, Harriet's Bible Quilt now resides at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and is shown twice each month as a part of the "Behind the Scenes" tour. The second quilt resides at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

**11-B James McNeill Whistler, //Harmony in Blue and Gold, The Peacock Room//, 1876-1877** [|The Freer Gallery of Art- Washington, D.C.] The Peacock Room online brochure explains the story behind this famous room and the recent three-year conservaiton project that restored the intricate patterns, colors, and designs of Whistler's work.

[|Freer and Sackler Galleries Online Exhibitions] Click on "The Whistler Interactive" link to find out more about Whistler's work which is arranged by media, location, and subject. Also, scroll down the list of online exhibitions and find at least one of interest to view.

[|Whistler House Museum of Art] James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was born in this house in Lowell, Massachusetts. The WHMA maintains a permanent collection of 19th and 20th century New England Representational artists and etchings by Whistler.

[|The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler] In the 19th century, most people around the world corresponded with each other via letter as opposed to by telephone or e-mail. In 1855, at the age of 21, Whistler left America to become an art student in Paris, and his correspondence continues until his death in 1903. Based on records of over 13,000 letters, including copies, surviving in public and private collections around the world, the on-line centenary edition makes available a total of some 10,000 letters covering this period. The edition includes all the letters written by Whistler and all the letters written to him; letters mentioning Whistler are also included on a selective basis.

**13-A Walker Evans, //Brooklyn Bridge, New York//, 1929** [|Ken Burns' American Stories: Brooklyn Bridge (PBS)] This award-winning program by filmmaker Ken Burns recaptures all of the drama, struggles, and personal tragedies behind one of the greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age, the Brooklyn Bridge. Our New Jersey connection to the Brooklyn Bridge is that various members of the Roebling family presented the design (John), became chief engineer of the project (son Washington), and was the first person to drive across the bridge in 1883 (Washington's wife, Emily).

[|Roebling Museum (Burlington County, NJ)] Roebling was built in 1905 by Charles Roebling to house the workers of the John A Roebling's Sons Company manufacturing plant. In 2009, a museum will be opened on this site to educate the public about the Roebling family and the village of Roebling. Plans are underway for exhibition development, archival organization, implementation of the media room for oral history showings and lectures, and for merchandising the gift shop. The museum is in the main gate building that was the entrance to the now defunct plant.

[|Walker Evans Archive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)] A special exhibition available from February 3, 2009 through May 25, 2009 will focus on a collection of 9000 picture postcards amassed and classified by photographer Walker Evans. The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired the personal archive of the American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975). The Walker Evans Archive contains the artist's life's work—forty thousand negatives and transparencies dating from the late 1920s to the early 1970s—as well as Evans's personal and professional correspondence, papers, diaries, family photo albums, and his collection of books, picture postcards, clippings, roadside signs, and works by other artists.

[|Museum of the City of New York] This museum focuses on historical New York City photographs. If you would like to see New York City throughout the late 1800s, throughout the 1900s, and today, click on the link to this website.

[|Brooklyn Historical Society] The permanent exhibit areas in Brooklyn's History Museum include the Brook Bridge, Coney Island, Brooklynites, The Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Click on "A Brief History of Brooklyn: An Interactive Timeline," to find out more specific information about Brooklyn throughout history.

[|Walker Evans Project] The Evans Project is an in-depth commentary on Evans' influence in documentary photography. A picture of Walker using an 8 x 10 camera from a rooftop can be found at the top of the homepage on this website.

[|Photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information (FSA-OWI)] As part of the American Memory section of the Library of Congress website, the FSA-OWI includes a documentary and photos of Evans' life as a photographer for the Department of the Interior beginning in 1935.

**14-B Joseph Stella, //Brooklyn Bridge, New York//, c. 1919-1920** [|Pittsburgh Portraits by Joseph Stella- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh] The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh offers a list of links to portrait images of Stella's work with a focus on his Pittsburg portraits.
 * See links concerning the Brooklyn Bridge under Walker Evans' //Brooklyn Bridge, New York//**

[|ArtCyclopedia: Joseph Stella] ArtCyclopedia offers many links to galleries with Stella collections, online images of his works, full-text articles, and other Stella-related websites.

[|Joseph Stella: Artist and Art] The Artist features links to Stella's biography, market value of his prints, and auction information.

**15-A Charles Sheeler, //American Landscape//, 1930** [|James A. Michener Art Museum (PA)] The James A. Michener Art Museum is an independent, non-profit cultral institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting the art and cultural heritage of the Bucks County region. Sheeer, having lived in Doylestown during the weekends and summers from 1910 to 1926 is included in this distinguished list of Bucks County artists. Click on the links on the right side of the page to find out more about Sheeler and find out more about his other works.

[|Getty Museum (CA): Charles Sheeler] The Gettty Museum offers a brief biography and images of Scheeler's other works.

[|World Wide Art Resources: Charles Sheeler] The World War Art Resources website contains forty actual examples of Sheeler's artwork and many links to other sites containing his work.

[|Charles Sheeler and Photographic Myth] The Charles Sheeler and Photographic Myth webpage contains a detailed biography of Sheeler from 1917 to 1929.

[|Museum of Modern Art (NYC)] Although you cannot see an image of //American Landscape// online, there are many other examples of Sheeler's work that you can find on this website.

**16-A Edward Hopper, //House by the Railroad//, 1925** [|Museum of Modern Art (NYC)] The Museum of Modern Art collection contains six examples of Edward Hopper's artwork. Click on the link above to view images of these works of art, including //House by the Railroad//.

[|Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA)] The Philadelphia Museum of Art holds 75 pieces of Edward Hopper's artwork in its collection. Click on the link above to view images of 12 pieces of his artwork.

[|National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)] Although this exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery of Art, you can read a biography and view slideshows featuring Hopper's artwork. Click on the "Exhibition Feature" link to view more of Hopper's artwork and find out more about his life as an artist.

[|Artcyclopedia: Edward Hopper Online] The Artcyclopedia website has included a webpage dedicated to the artist Edward Hopper. On this webpage, you can find links to art museum sites and image archives worldwide that contain works by this artist.

[|Museum of Fine Arts (MA)] The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston put together this interactive website to accompany the 2007 exhibition of Hopper's work.

**17-A Jacob Lawrence, //The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57//, 1940-1941** [|Experience- Jacob Lawrence Migration Series] Opened to the public in 1921 and founded by Duncan Phillips, the museum's collection has grown to well over 2400 works of art. Half of the Migration Series is held here. Click on the link above and turn on the volume on your speakers to listen to the music accompanying the artwork from the Migration Series. Also, click on the tabs above to explore more about this series.

[|Museum of Modern Art (NYC): Jacob Lawrence] Read a brief biography of Jacob Lawrence. Then, click on the "Works by this artist" link to see examples of his artwork at the Museum of Modern Art.

[|African American World- Arts & Culture] As part of the PBS website, this webpage offers a brief biography and links to interivews with Jacob Lawrence from various NPR programs. Scroll down the page and click on one of the links for interviews with the artist to find out more about Lawrence in his own words.

[|Jacob Lawrence- Collections Online- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)] The papers of African American painter and teacher Jacob Lawrence and his wife Gwendolyn Knight measure 9 linear feet and date from 1945 to 1995, with the bulk of the material dated 1973-1994. More than half of the collection is correspondence with friends, artists, students, school children, art schools, galleries, museums, and others. Also found are writings by Lawrence and others, newsclippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, press releases, brochures, books, photographs of Lawrence, Knight, and Lawrence's artwork, scattered financial and business records, and two small lithographs by James Rosenquist. Explore this website to get some more insight into the life of Jacob Lawrence.

[|Jacob Lawrence Oral History Interview with Jacob Lawrence, October 26, 1968] Read the transcript of an extensive interview with Jacob Lawrence as conducted by Carroll Greene on October 26, 1968. This interview chronicles the story of his youth, early training, and career as an artist up to this point in his career.

**17-B Romare Bearden, //The Dove//, 1964** [|Romare Bearden Foundation] The Romare Bearden Foundation was established as a nonprofit organization by the estate of Romare Bearden in 1990, two years after his death. The foundation currently preserves a collection of Bearden's artworks alongside hosting, supporting, and presenting scholarly and public programs. Click on the link above to find out more about this artist.

[|Jersey City Museum (NJ)] The museum places particular emphasis on exhibiting and supporting the work of contemporary artists who represent the diversity of our society. In 1998, three Bearden originals were donated into the museum's permanent collection, which you can view by clicking on the link above.

[|National Gallery of Art: Romare Bearden (Washington, D.C.)] Although this is a teacher's resouce, this website contains so much information about the artist and his work that it must be included in our list of websites. Use the drop down menu at the top of the page to find out more about Romare Bearden in his own words.

[|San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Art of Romare Bearden] Explore Romare Bearden's unique fusion of artistic traditions through archival footage of the artist at work, commentaries on his relationship to jazz musicians Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and the story of his monumental mural-collage commissioned for Berkeley's City Hall (CA) through this interactive website. [|Charlie Rose- An Appreciation of Artist Romare Bearden] View and listen to a discussion about the work of artist Romare Bearden with exhibition curator Ruth Fine, photographer Frank Stewart, and musician Branford Marsalis. Bearden is one of America's most renowned African American artists, noted especially for his photomontages and collages. Originally televised in 2004 on PBS, these commentators related their stories as his work was being celebrated in a touring exhibition organized by The National Gallery of Art.

[|Artcyclopedia: Romare Bearden Online] If you would like to find out more about Romare Bearden, click on the link above. On this website, you will find many links to museums containing Bearden's artwork as well as articles about the artist and his work.

**18-B Dorothea Lange, //Migrant Mother//, 1936** [|Museum of Modern Art (NYC)] Read a brief biography of Dorothea Lange. Then, click on the "Works by this artist" link to view fourteen of her photographs which can be found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

[|Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview] The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother" is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange was finishing a month-long trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement Administration. Explore this webpage to see more images from this series.

[|Dorothea Lange, Collections-- Oakland Museum of California] The Oakland Museum of California is undergoing an extensive renovation. However, the website contains information about California-native Dorothea Lange and examples of her photographs through an online slideshow.

[|Dorothea Lange Online] ArtCyclopedia features links to more than twenty museums and galleries containing works by Lange and other biographical information links.

[|Masters of Photography: Dorothea Lange] Masters of Photography contains links to articles, Lange's photographs, and other resources.

[|The History Place- Dorothea Lange] This site contains photographs from Lange's series on the migrant farm families with the original captions given by the photographer.

**18-B Thomas Hart Benton, //The Sources of Country Music//, 1975** [|Ken Burns' American Stories: Thomas Hart Benton] Burns' film traces the fascinating life and career of American painter Thomas Hart Benton. This companion website to the film features a timeline, video clips, and additional information about the artist and his work.

[|Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site (MO)] Located in the Kansas City, Missouri area, this historical site, a two-and-a-half story, late Victorian-style house that Benton called home features many of Benton's paintings and sculptures. Click on the pull-down menu on the right to find out more information about Benton, his family, and his home.

Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum Benton's last work was commissioned in 1973 by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and was completed in 1975. The 6-foot by 10-foot painting illustrates the roots of country music along with a depiction of the creators of this music. The mural and some of its accompanying studies are on display at the museum located in Nashville, TN.

**19-A Norman Rockwell, //Freedom of Speech, The Saturday Evening Post 1943,// 1943** [|YouTube: Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms] This is a segment that appeared in October of 2007 on WMHT's award-winning "Insight on The War." The Norman Rockwell Musuem is located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

[|Remix America- Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Speech] Listen to Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech given on January 6, 1941 that inspired Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings. Grabbing hold of Americans’ grandest strivings past and present and articulating them as the Four Freedoms – Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear, and Freedom from Want – he spoke words that would not only reaffirm the nation’s historic purpose and promise, but also define a cause and a generation.

[|Norman Rockwell Museum Collection Highlights (MA)] Find out more about this series of paintings which are housed in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

[|America in WWII Magazine: Norman Rockwell and the Four Freedoms] Read more about the backstory related to Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms series in an article by Bruce Heydt published in //America in WWII// magazine.

[|Nassau Inn- Princeton, NJ] The Yankee Doodle Tap Room has a long tradition of being Princeton, New Jersey's destination for fine dining and company. The restaurant was named for Yankee Doodle after Norman Rockwell painted a thirteen-foot mural about the historic figure for Nassau Inn in 1937. Today, this piece of American art history continues to hang behind the bar in the Tap Room. In order to view this mural in detail, click on "Dining" in order to find out more about Norman Rockwell's connection to New Jersey.

**19-B James Karales, //Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965//, 1965** [|James Karales: Photographs 1956-1969] The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University (NC) acquired the James Karales Collection in 2004. The prints in this show were selected from five distinct bodies of work: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March; the Vietnam War; the Lower East Side of New York City; Rendville, Ohio; and logging in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to the exhibition quality prints, the collection contains negatives, slides, contact sheets and 5x7 and 8x10 proof prints. Click on "Enter the Exhibit" on the right side of the page to see these historic photographs.

[|Rebekah Jacob Gallery (SC)] located in Charleston, South Carolina, the Rebekah Jacob Gallery focuses on Southern artists and photographers. View some of James Karales' photographs as part of the gallery's collection.

**20-A Richard Diebenkorn, //Cityscape 1//, 1963** [|San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA)] The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art website contains a brief biography and numerous links to multimedia features. These features include videos and an audiofile of interviews of the artist about his life and work.

[|National Gallery of Art- Richard Diebenkorn] View seven works of art by Richard Diebenkorn in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.

[|Richard Diebenkorn Online] Artcyclopedia features links to many museums and galleries containing works by Diebenkorn and other biographical information links. You will find that many of his works are on view in museums located in California which is his homestate.

**20-B Martin Puryear, //Ladder for Booker T. Washington//, 1996** [|The Art Institute of Chicago (IL)] View 20 works of art by Martin Puryear as part of the collection at The Art Institute of Chicago.

[|Art:21- Art in the Twenty-First Century] Read a brief biography of artist Martin Puryear on this companion website to the PBS series //Art:21- Art in the Twenty-First Century//. Then, scroll down the page. Click on the link for the artist's interview on creating //Ladder for Booker T. Washington//.

[|Martin Puryear- //Time// Magazine] Read a review of Martin Puryear's artwork in a 1992 article by Robert Hughes in //Time// Magazine.

[|Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (TX)] View //Ladder for Booker T. Washington// where it is housed in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Click on the image to view an improved image of this modern sculpture.