General Links for American Art

Access Art: American Art to 1900 Objects in The Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of American Art - includes lesson plans.

African American Artists  (More individual artists)

American Artists - listed on Artcyclopedia

American Art Collection at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Highlights of the permanent collection, one of the foremost collections of American art, ranging from colonial masters such as Robert Feke, John Singleton Copley, and Benjamin West, to major contemporary artists including Richard Diebenkorn, Red Grooms, and Faith Ringgold.

American Art - Exploring Art Themes - National Gallery of Art. Abstraction , the Figure, Portraiture, Landscape, Historical, Still life and more.

American Art- Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature - Lesson from National Gallery of Art.

American Art - Smithsonian American Art Museum  Online Exhibits

American Art- Teacher's Guide from Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

American Art - Traditional Fine Arts Organization - largest, and most visited, free source of online information on American art. Dedicated to furthering education in American art through advocacy, publications and research. See the Resource Gallery.

American Art - Posters American Style - brings together some of the great graphic images made in the United States over the past century.

American Crafts White House Collection of American Crafts -- National Museum of American Art.

American Cultural History - The 19th Century - Through the decades - from Kingwood College Library

American Cultural History - The 20th Century - through the decades - from Kingwood College Library (90's were blank last I checked)

American Currency Exhibit Explore the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's American Currency Exhibit online and watch history come alive as you step back in time to our nation's beginning.

American History - Image archives. Images in public domain.

American Indian Art Links  National Museum of American Indian

American Patriotic Art - Symbols of American Patriotism

American Folk Art

American Painting- National Gallery of Art   American Impressionism

America's Art - companion Web site to a new book of the same title from the Smithsonian
American Art Museum (SAAM). Shows all 225 works - organized into 16 chapters.

Archives of American Art from the Smithsonian. What a Great site! Oral histories, exhibits, collections and more. See sketchbooks, illustrated letters - more. 

AskART - Database of American Artists - information on 32,000 American artists. Gives a brief biography for each artist and at least one example of their work. Subscription is required to see all images. Currently 100 Warhol images are available for viewing. See general interest categories, too. 

Cartoon America: A Library of Congress Exhibition - online collection that contains a selection of materials from James Arthur Wood Jr.  The exhibition is divided into six sections, including "Imaginary Worlds: Illustration" and "Punch Lines: Gag & Single Panel Cartoons".

¡del Corazón! Latino Voices in American Art - Smithsonian American Art Museum online exhibit, which uses photographs, videos, and other resources to examine how various Latino artists speak through their different artworks. Lesson plans included (available in English).  Much of the site's materials are available in both English and Spanish. More resources for Latino Art.

Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC.  ...discover thirty-five hundred paintings, sculptures, miniatures, craft objects, and folk art pieces from the collection  Browse the collection. 

Visual Thinking: Sketches and Sketchbooks - a summary of approximately 2,800 volumes of sketchbooks and 7,500 loose sketches by over 450 artists in the Archives of American Art. 

Ansel Adams (photography) Exhibit at San Francisco Museum of Art 
Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

Ivan Albright (American Magic Realist Painter, 1897-1983)

Terry Allen (sculpture) Terry Allen's work is known for its narrative content combining human drama with metaphor and make-believe.

Walter Inglis Anderson (Painter 1903 - 1965) Born in New Orleans. 

Oscar Araripe - Lively art, fresh and colorful - from Brazil, South America.  Lots of appeal for students. Award winning site.

John James Audubon (West Indian/American Illustrator, 1785-1851) - Audubon Society  - Artists and Explorers - National Gallery

Jennifer Bartlett American  Painter, Printmaker and Sculptor. From the Greg Kucera Gallery. Images of house and trees - prints and pastels. Jennifer Bartlett  (American Painter, Born 1941)

Jean-Michel Basquiat (African American, 1960 -1988)

Romare Bearden (African American- collage – printmaking) "Know the Artist"

George Bellows  (American Ashcan School Painter, 1882-1925)

Thomas Hart Benton (American Regionalist Painter, 1899-1975)  Arts of Life in America - Exhibit at New Britain Museum of American Art - Connecticut.

Albert Bierdstadt (German/American Hudson River School Painter, 1830-1902)

John Biggers - (African American painter)

Ed Bisese - contemporary artist from College Park, Maryland. Cartoon-ish figurative paintings, drawings and large scale paper mâché sculpture.  Distorted expressive faces, some with razor thin teeth, others wearing bizarre masks.

Blue Man Group Multi-sensory - They are music - they are art - they are science - culture! I hope you have an opportunity to see them perform. Check out their History of  Art as Told by Blue Man Group. Get your students to enjoy art history. See Blue Man Group Exhibit 13 - Tribute to 9/11

Lee Bontecou (American Sculptor born in 1931) Hammer Exhibition (several works online)  AskArt (see image gallery) 

Jacob Breeden - Contemporary - Paintings and sculptures - abstract/non-objective - geometric. Jacob Breeden is Curator of Education, Amarillo Museum of Art

Charles Burchfield   (American Scene Painter, 1893-1967)

Alexander Calder (American Kinetic Artist, 1898-1976) (Alexander Calder inks page) Learn Greg Percy's song "World on a String" (Calder)

Eric Carle - children's book illustrator. Biography (has photograph of Carle). Teacher Resource list.  Scholastic Author Study. Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Emily Carr (Canadian Painter, 1871-1945) Emily Carr House 
To Totem Forest: Emily Carr and Contemporaries

Mary Cassatt (American Impressionist Painter, 1844-1926)
Mary Cassatt: Selected Color Prints From the National Gallery of Art. Take the tour or view the rooms - wonderful etchings. Known for her perceptive depictions of women and children, Mary Cassatt was one of the few American artists active in the nineteenth-century French avant-garde.
Mary Cassatt: Painting Tour From the National Gallery of Art. Two rooms for viewing. Women and children as theme.

Elizabeth Catlett (African-American Sculptor and Printmaker, Born 1919)

George Catlin (Painter, 1796-1872) Campfire Stories with George Catlin- Smithsonian 
George Catlin - Medicine Painter online exhibit from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Rachel Citrino (contemporary) artist living and working in New Jersey. "Citrino paints memory maps and practices a wild and joyful archeology."

Judy Chicago  (American Installation Artist, Born 1939) 
Judy Chicago Artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career now spans four decades. Her vision is expressed in The Dinner Party, the Birth Project, Powerplay, the Holocaust Project

Dale Chihuly  (American Glassmaker, Born 1941) - Dale Chihuly Web Site - Artchive  
Dale Chihuly - R. Duane Reed Gallery - Diane Farris Gallery   Fireworks of Glass - at Children's Museum of Indianapolis. See the activities online for kids.

Frederick Church [American Hudson River School Painter, 1826-1900]

Chuck Close (American Photorealist Painter, Born 1940) (portrait grids see lesson plan) 
Chuck Close: Process and Collaboration Man and His life - Resources - more

Thomas Cole (English/American Hudson River School Painter, 1801-1848)

Joseph Cornell  (American Assemblage Artist, 1903-1972) Joseph Cornell links page with more assemblage artists listed.

Robert Cottingham (Photorealist, born 1935) See Robert Cottingham - Eyeing America from Smithsonian American Art Museum - 70 prints in the collection.

Carley Crisler Ann Arbor artist  specializing in one-of-a-kind dolls, large-scale welded metal art and colorful pastel portraits (gorgeous!). You will find her work quite diverse - from abstract and whimsical to realistic.

Stuart Davis  (American Abstract Painter, C.1894-1964) Self-Portrait

Stuart Davis - Web Museum 
Mark Harden's Artchive- Stuart Davis 
Walker Art Center Interview with Stuart Davis 
Jazz- Swing Era Art Gallery (University of Virginia)  History of Jazz
Stuart Davis - Links to online images

William DeKooning (Dutch/American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1904-1997)

Charles Demuth  (American Precisionist Painter, 1883-1935)

Richard Diebenkorn  (American Abstract Painter, 1922-1993) - Artchive

Jim Dine    (American Pop Artist, Born 1935) Know the Artist: Jim Dine

Terry Dixon - Contemporary Chicago artist. Digital images/mixed media - jazz on canvas. Abstract line drawing combined with digital images.

Bev Doolittle (American Painter and Printmaker, Born 1947)

Amanda Dunbar  - Young artist.   Amanda's original paintings are generally oil on canvas. New to Amanda's collection are her hand pulled etchings.

Julie Dunn  Beautiful tempera batik on paper. Endangered species, flowers, landscapes and more. See step  by step demonstration. 

Thomas Eakins (American Realist Painter, 1844-1916)

Marisol Escobar (Venezuelan Sculptor, Born 1930)
Marisol Escobar  Venezuelan Sculptor, Born 1930. Exhibition from Art Museum of the Americas. Site has a biography, writing by the artist, sculptures and works on paper.  See her wood and mixed media work! Learn more!

Richard Estes   (American Photorealist Painter, Born 1936)

Walker Evans   (American Photographer, 1903-1975)

Rosemarie Fiore (contemporary) Artist from New York. Paintings, scrambler and fireworks drawings, unique projects. 

Janet Fish  (American Contemporary Realist Painter, Born 1938)
Janet Fish - biographical sketch and images. Two oil paintings and link to review. 
Janet Fish on Artnet - four pages of images.

Audrey Flack  Artist's profile  Artcyclopedia links

Dan Flavin (Installation artist - 1933-1996) Minimalist working with light. See Dan Flavin Art Institute Check Exhibition images.

Denise Fleming Children's Illustrator. Excellent site with sections on activities, paper making techniques, book previews and more. Check it out! 

Jody Folwell (Native American pottery)

Helen Frankenthaler (American Abstract Expressionist Painter, Born 1928)

Buckminster Fuller  (American Architect and Designer and Inventor, 1895-1983)

George Fuller (Portraits - American, 1822-1884)

Paul Georges (American, 1923 - 2002) Artnet - 4 pages

Paul Giovanopoulos His original vision involved a carefully composed repetitive grid of panels as the base of a painting. Giovanopoulos then interpreted each panel, transforming the object within through "visual signatures" from art history

Sam Gilliam (African-American Painter, Born 1933)

Morris Graves  (American Abstract Expressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1910-2001)

Nancy Graves  (Sculptor, 1940-1995)

Howie Green - Contemporary - Fresh approach to Pop. Celebrities, album covers, one of a kind cartoon expressions and more. Fun site to explore.

Rodney Alan Greenblat (born 1960) New York artist. View the gallery, watercolors, digital and screen prints. Lots of fun ideas to inspire students.

Eric Grohe Murals - Illusion of perspective space. Artist from Seattle, Washington.

Red Grooms (installations/sculptures - American Pop Artist, Born 1937)

Naomi Grossman - New York artist. Wire sculptures, interesting box assemblages with words and wire. Photographs with a mature theme (preview before showing students).

Tom Haney - Figurative sculptures - Articulated Artwork from Atlanta, Georgia. Maker of one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted automata and other works of modern folk art. Carved wood -mixed media assemblages. Be sure and view the newest additions - Six new work on his site!  Watch the short videos, too. 

Duane Hanson  (American Photorealist Sculptor, Born 1925)

Helen Hardin (for her use of modern tools and techniques with traditional Indian motifs)

Marsden Hartley (American Painter, 1877-1943) 
Ask Art - Marsden Hartley (biography and images - you have to be a member to view all of the images) - Biography - Lesson from ArtsConnected. check out American Indian Symbols from Inspiring Visions: Artists Views of the West - Lesson plan

Keith Haring  (1958 - 1990)  "Know the Artist" Keith Haring Links - sample research page 

Richard Hass Biography, Exhibitions, Murals and more.

Childe Hassam (American Impressionist Painter, 1859-1935)  
Childe Hassam: American Impressionist  Online exhibit from Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sergio Hernandez - Los Angeles artist who got his start as a cartoonist. See Death Takes Frida! Don't miss his new cultural art work. Many powerful images! 

Eva Hesse (German/American Minimalist Painter and Sculptor, 1936-1970)

J. D Hillberrry - Charcoal and Pencil Drawings. Realistic- Trompe d'Oeil. Colorado artist.

Hispanic Artists - more to come

Lorenzo Homar (Puerto Rican Artist - printmaker)  Selected works - Silkscreen prints, wood cuts and political cartoons. Galería Botello (in Spanish)  See more modern and contemporary Puerto Rican artists.

Winslow Homer (American Painter, 1836-1910) Tribute to Winslow Homer 
Winslow Homer- National Gallery of Art -  Artchive - Ask Art  

Edward Hopper (American Scene Painter, 1882-1967)  - See online video 
An Edward Hopper Scrapbook - Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art Scrapbook offers a glimpse into Hopper's life, his friends, and paintings. Edward Hopper - National Gallery (Flash introduction)

Rick Hyman "Migration of the African American Family". Online exhibit from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Jasper Johns (Abstract Expressionist/Pop Painter and Sculptor, Born 1930)

J. Seward Johnson, Jr. (Sculptor, Born 1930). J Seward Johnson, Jr. Online 
J. Seward Johnson, Jr. - Beyond the Frame - Impressionists works (book available) 

William Johnson (African-American Harlem Renaissance Painter, 1901-1970)   Additional Links

Joshua Johnston (African-American, Active 1796-1824)

Albert Kahn  (American Architect 1869 - 1942)

Ned Kahn - Art and Science - Sculptures that incorporate sound, weather and more. More on Ned Kahn

Frida Kahlo (Mexican Painter, 1907-1954) Contemporary Thoughts

Carolyn Keigley - Tahoe, Utah. Carolyn works mostly with dry pastels on a large scale. Her work is of winter mountain landscapes focusing on the beauty one finds in nature during the winter. Carolyn teaches art and art education on the college level and is a first/second grade teacher at Glenshire Elementary School in Tahoe.

Ellsworth Kelly (American Minimalist Painter and Sculptor, born in 1923)

Barry Kite - Aberrant Art - Photo collage made from "recycled" images (Good for discussion on image copyright and what is in public domain). Browse his site - See how many masterworks of art you can find in his work. California artist. 

Mark Kostabi  (b. 1960) New York artist. You will see hints of de Chirico, Magritte, Leger, and Vermeer in his work. Might be an interesting assignment for students to do a "history of inspiration" piece... showing hints of artists/art styles who have inspired them.

Betty LaDuke Oregon artist. Beautiful images - "assimilating the myths, idioms, iconography and metaphors of other cultures holistically into her works". See work from her travels to Africa. Photographs of children. See Women Artists of the American West. Books by LaDuke

Dorothea Lange (American Photographer, 1895-1965)
Dorothea Lange Brief biography and images from the Getty. 
About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange From the Getty. Teach your students about the Dust Bowl and the Depression, have them create their own photo essays, and learn about using metaphors in visual and written forms.

Nicki Lanzi - Watercolor artist from Ohio. Watercolor workshops available - see site for details.

Latin American Artists 

Jacob Lawrence ( African-American Harlem Renaissance Painter, 1917-2000
More Links on African America Art  Exploring Stories - Whitney 

Agnes Martin (Canadian born- American Minimalist Painter, 1912-2004) - Guggenheim Collection More on Artcyclopedia

Norm Magnusson - contemporary New York artist. Social comment, animal allegories and more.

James Michael Lawrence Digital art on Minnesota Arts. James work is rich in imagery. You will find high quality digital images to inspire on the Minnesota Artists site (site takes a while to load - be patient - well worth the wait!). James wants students to be inspired by his work.  See Minnesota Arts Collection of Digital Art and Computer Art Collection curated by James Michael Lawrence. See James' newest Japan Series

Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton (from Wellsville, Kansas, 1909/1910 - 1993) Many works in crayon. National Museum of Women in Art portfolio   Photographs and more works (sure to please!) Layton - Works at Kansas Public Library

Sherry Levine (b. 1947) Fountain after Marcel Duchamp. Copyright and Appropriation Web Quest: Whose Art is it Anyway? Also features Duchamp, Warhol and Lichtenstein (Webquest was down last I checked)

Edmonia Lewis (African-American Sculptor, C.1845-1911)

Lucy Lewis (Native American Potter, 1902-1992)

Roy Lichtenstein (American Pop Artist, 1923-1997)
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation -Cool site!  Artchive - AskArt 
Roy Lichtenstein on the Roof - Sculpture presentation by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Maya Ying Lin Architect and designer of Viet Nam War Memorial -- conceived her design as creating a park within a park -- a quiet protected place. Learn more! 
Maya Lin (American Architect born 1959)

Morris Louis  [American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1912-1962]

Alan Magee - artist from Maine. Photorealism paintings - trompe l'oeil - interesting sculptures, monotypes, tapestries. See Undercurrents and Paintings.

Brice Marden - (American Minimalist Painter, born in 1938) Many examples of his work are good for unit on line.

Ned Martin - Contemporary realist oil painter from Maryland. See landscapes and still life.

Maria Martinez (Native American Potter, C.1889-1980)
Touched by Fire: The Art, Life, and Legacy of Maria Martinez This online exhibition complements the temporary exhibition of the same name and showcases the life and work of the legendary San Ildefonso potter.

Oscar Martinez - Contemporary - Figurative work full of line, pattern and color with a bit of mystery ("artwork is about the mysteries of the mind"). Very inspirational! Original oil paintings and Giclee prints prints. Born in Puerto Rico - now living in Chicago, Illinois.

Soraida Martinez - Latino artist of Puerto Rican heritage - known as the creator of "Verdadism", a form of hard-edge abstraction in which paintings are juxtaposed with social commentaries. Many women's issues - and about minorities. Must see site.

Peter Max (American Pop Artist, Born 1937) Peter Max Art  Selected works and biography

Carolyn Mazloomi  Check her beautiful appliqué story quilts. "Contemporary African American quilters create richly narrative quilts because we are a people with many stories to tell" 

Jim McNeill - Graphic Artist and Flash animator-"Know the Artist" research page

Mexican Folk and Fine Art  Ceramics of Mexico

Jeff Mihalyo Seattle artist. Surreal paintings, drawings and digital photographs.

Scott Moore - California artist. Watercolor and oil painting still life "scapes" using  toys and advertising from the 50's and 60's as subject - adding people to alter scale giving a surreal look.  The website has a gallery of images and a demonstration of how he works. Sure to inspire a lesson!.

Jesús Bautista Moroles (American Sculptor, Born 1950)

Anna Mary Robertson Moses "Grandma Moses" (American Folk C.1861-1961)
Anna Mary Robertson Moses - Cyber Pathways Brief biography and two works.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses - Church in the Dell

Todd Muskopf Ohio artist and educator. Painting in Impressionistic style. Beautiful photographs! These photographic images are not in the public domain.

National Gallery of Art :Themes in American Art - Abstraction, the figure, historical subjects, landscapes, still life, portraits, narrative art and so much more. Great resource!

Native American Art

Alice Neel (American Painter, 1900-1984)
Alice Neel, American Painter Excellent site- has a biography and galleries of her work by decades - Some of the galleries are kid safe (1920's - 1940's - 1950's) while the rest should be previewed first.

John Nieto (American Painter, Born 1936) Bold colors - Native American themes Many print images . AskArt biography

Louise Nevelson (Russian/American Sculptor, 1899-1988)

Kenneth Noland  (American Abstract Expressionist Painter, Born 1924)

Corinne Okada - California artist. Wire sculpture accented with  mixed media collage. Assorted recycled papers, handmade papers, silks and more on wire armature. See Kimonos, insects (nature) and more.

Georgia O’Keeffe - Know the Artist - She loved to roller-skate in an old school gym near her place in the southwest and when she got too old to skate herself, her assistant would carry her on his back and roller skate her around the gym (according to sculptor, Jesus Bautista Moroles). 
Ellen's Place: Georgia O'Keeffe Personal web site designed by J. Ellen Cotton. Has biography and images. Learn more about Georgia O'Keeffe from this page created by Kansas teacher, Woody Duncan. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum  
Learn Greg Percy's song "Georgia"

Claes Oldenburg (Swedish/American Pop Sculptor, Born 1929)

Judy Onofrio Delightful sculptures, portraits and wall pieces from found objects - using a variety of materials and processes. 

John Payne - John Payne Studios - from Asheville, North Carolina. Interactive steel dinosaurs, or 'kinetosaurs', invite both children and adults to learn about natural history while demonstrating some basic mechanical principals, and are in themselves awe-inspiring sculptural works.

Maxfield Parrish (American Golden Age Illustrator, 1870-1966) - Parrish Art Images - Bio Maxfield Parrish - Smithsonian article- Bio

Bob Peak (Illustrator 1927 -1992) Artist/illustrator- movie posters, magazine art, sports art and more.

John Frederick Peto  (American Painter, 1854-1907) Still life and Trompe d'Oeil. From Card Rack with a Jack of Hearts from Cleveland Museum of Art.  Affordable poster for personal self portrait lesson: Letter Rack.  Poor Mans' Store 

Howard Pyle (American Golden Age Illustrator, 1853-1911) - Biography and images -  Bio

Jackson Pollock (American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1912-1956) 
Jackson Pollock on Web Museum  Learn "Pollock's Eyes" - song  by Greg Percy 
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas - splash paint your computer screen.

Al Qöyawayma - contemporary ceramics with connections to the past. Hopi potter born in 1938 Mesa Verdi pot  

Joseph Raffael  (American Contemporary Realist Painter, Born 1933)
link: http://www.nancyhoffmangallery.com/artists/raffael.html

Robert Rauschenberg (American Pop Artist, Born 1925)
Robert Rauschenberg - PBS American Masters -  Artchive -  Ask Art - Guggenheim  Robert Rauschenberg ArtsNet Minnesota - What is Art?

Amy L. Rawson - beautiful paintings! Sculptures to come on her site. Check back often.  See Amy's online journal (home for journal)

Edward Willis Redfield (American Impressionist Paiinter 1869-1965)

Frederick Remington Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art
Frederick Remington (American Painter and Sculptor, 1861-1909) 

Faith Ringgold (African-American, Born 1930) Faith Ringgold Official Web Site If you are an artist, writer, teacher, or a kid of any age who loves art and stories you may just be in the right place. Learn more.  Portrait of Faith Ringgold by Alice Neel (1977)

Diego Rivera (Mexican Social Realist Muralist, 1886-1957)  Diego Rivera Virtual Museum

Dorothea Rockburne Contemporary Canadian artist living in the US. Her work can be found at the Museum of Modern Art...See her installations and wall pieces. Mixed media.

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)-  Norman Rockwell Museum Stockbridge, MA.

Bird Ross - Wisconsin artist. Mixed media, assemblage and fibers. Unusual interpretations of the tea pot, vessels, bags and more.

Mark Rothko (American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1903-1970)

Charles Russell Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art

Alison Saar (African-American Sculptor, Born 1956)

Betye Saar (African-American Assemblage Artist, Born 1926) "Know the Artist" links page

Bernard Safran (1924-1995) was a high realist painter known for his penetrating portraits. New York artist - moved to Canada. See paintings of city life contrasted to rural life.

John Singer Sargent (American Painter, 1856-1925) See The Sargent Murals at the Boston Public Library [Quicktime] Best known as a portrait painter for the rich and fashionable, John Singer Sargent worked for nearly 30 years (1890-1919) on a monumental mural cycle

George Segal (American Pop Sculptor, 1924-2000) Figure Sculpture Internet Lesson Links page   Additional Links

Jason Seiler - "Face the Truth" Caricature artist. The essence of caricature is exaggeration. 

Ben Shahn (Lithuanian/American Social Realist Painter, 1898-1969) 

Sandy Skoglund (American Photographer and Installation Artist, Born 1946) 

David Smith (American Sculptor, 1906-1965)

Smith, Jaune Quick-To-See (Native American Painter, Born 1940)

Paul Soldner (American Sculptor, Born 1921) - Paul Soldner Web Site - Galleries - video 
Paul Soldner - Art Central - Portfolio 

Jen Stark - Contemporary - construction paper sculpture and installations. Felt tip marker line drawings.

Frank Stella (American Minimalist Painter and Sculptor, Born 1936) 
Frank Stella - Jarama II - Guessing game - critical analysis of Jarama II by Stella

Christopher Still (Painter, born 1961) Florida artist. See ten murals commissioned by the Florida House of Representatives in which the artist depicts Florida's historic and natural beauty.

Ben Strawn - Whalefish Studios Drawings - sketchbook - and figurative sculptures (dolls). See also Jessica Robin's Dolls.

Drew Struzan - Illustrator from California. See movie posters, advertising art and more.

Gilbert Stuart (American Painter, 1755-1828) See Gilbert Stuart: Making Faces online interactive site from Metropolitan Museum of Art

Louis Sullivan  (American Architect, 1856-1924)

Roxanne Swentzell - Read Susan Peterson on Roxanne Swentzell 

Maggie Taylor Surreal work done using a scanner and Photoshop  Interview
Laurence Miller Gallery -- Maggie Taylor Exhibition
Weston Gallery--Maggie Taylor   Interview

Themes in American Art - National Gallery of Art

Wayne Thiebaud (American Pop Artist, Born 1920) -  Artchive - Biography - Smithsonian Wayne Thiebaud - Artnet - 6 pages of images

Alfred Tibor Holocaust Survivor artist - figurative sculpture. Born in Hungary in 1920 - living in Columbus, Ohio. Inspiring work. Came to United States in 1957.

Alton Tobey (1912 - 2005) Paintings - master of realism and beyond... Beautiful site maintained by Joe L. Dolice, curator for the The Alton Tobey Collection

Robin Urton -Eyecon Art Gallery - paintings have a surreal and iconographic nature which evoke her personal spirituality. Beautiful framing that is part of the work. From Taos, New Mexico. See her section on Art History - nice summaries and choice of images. Topics as Aesthetics, Purposes of Art and more.

Jackson Walker - Legendary Florida - Portrayals of  Florida's past -  website where you can interactively learn about Florida's heritage through art. From the DeLand Museum of Art.

William Walker [American, 1838-1921]

Andy Warhol (American Pop Artist, 1928-1987) "Make your own silkscreen"- fun online silkscreen demo. The site allows you to follow Warhol's creative process while making your own art choices.  "The Warhol: Resources and Lessons - teaching across the arts and humanities" - educational resources from the Andy Warhol Museum. Lesson plans, one day activities, timeline and more.

Edward Weston (American Photographer, 1886-1958)

James Whistler (American Painter and Printmaker, 1834-1903) 
James McNeill Whistler Smithsonian online exhibit

Martin Wittfooth - Contemporary surreal artist -  from Brooklyn New York

Women Artists of the American West- Past and Present. Interdisciplinary Resource featuring the vital contributions that women have made to the art and history of the
American West. From Purdue University.

Grant Wood (American Regionalist Painter, 1892-1942)
Learn Greg Percy's song "American Gothic"

Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect and Designer, 1869-1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright - Designs of an American Landscape - PBS Film - Foundation

Andrew Wyeth (American Contemporary Realist Painter, Born 1917) - Artchive 
Andrew Wyeth Original Works   Andrew Wyeth (official website)

Jamie Wyeth  (American Contemporary Realist Painter, Born 1946)

N.C. Wyeth (American Golden Age Illustrator, 1882-1945)

Wyland Marine artists - ocean art - whales and dolphins - Intro. Wyland Foundation 

Marcia Yerman  Don't be stopped by the image on her home page - her work is AMAZING! Drawing, gouache, collage, mixed-media, or large-scale oil paintings, the themes our powerful - dealing with world issues - family and more. Work is both narrative and symbolic in nature. See my favorite! If I Don't Do It - A great tie in for Renaissance units (playing cards). New York artist.

Send me American artists you admire and I will add them to the list - Email link on home page