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Making of America (MOA), from the Cornell University Library, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science

Man Ray Trust

Mary And Alden Bryan Memorial Gallery

Max Kade/SGAS

maynarddixon.org

Medicine Man Gallery, Inc.

J. Mark Sublette of Medicine Man Gallery, Inc. has secured permissions to reprint online numerous articles concerning Western and Native American art from publishers of several paper-printed magazines. Categories include "Contemporary Painters,"Contemporary Sculptors,"Deceased Painters / Sculptors,"Collecting Antiques / Fine Art," plus others.

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's website contains one of the largest online repositories of scholarly essays regarding American art. The Timeline of Art History section contains thematic essays on American art by noted scholars. As of August, 2011 there are:

27 essays on Colonial American Art:

* American Georgian Interiors (Mid-Eighteenth-Century Period Rooms)
* American Needlework in the Eighteenth Century
* American Portrait Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century
* American Rococo
* Andean Textiles
* Architecture, Furniture, and Silver from Colonial Dutch America
* Art and Identity in the British North American Colonies, 1700-1776
* Art and Society of the New Republic, 1776-1800
* Arts of the Mission Schools in Mexico
* Arts of the Spanish Americas, 1550-1850
* Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate in Early Colonial America
* Colonial Kero Cups
* Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) and Charles-Honoré Lannuier (1779-1819)
* Eighteenth-Century Silhouette and Support
* English Pattern Books in Eighteenth Century America
* Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
* John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
* John Townsend (1733-1809)
* Late Eighteenth-Century American Drawings
* The Manila Galleon Trade (1565-1815)
* Military Music in American and European Traditions
* Paul Revere, Jr. (1734-1818)
* Polychrome Sculpture in Spanish America
* Religion and Culture in North America, 1600-1700
* Students of Benjamin West (1738-1820)
* Talavera de Puebla
* The Transatlantic Slave Trade

70 essays on American Art in the Nineteenth Century

* Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892)
* Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and American Photography
* Alice Cordelia Morse (1863-1961)
* America Comes of Age: 1876-1900
* American Bronze Casting
* American Federal Era Period Rooms
* American Impressionism
* American Neoclassical Sculptors Abroad
* American Portrait Miniatures of the Nineteenth Century
* American Quilts and Coverlets
* American Relief Sculpture
* American Revival Styles, 1840-1876
* American Scenes of Everyday Life, 1840-1910
* American Women Sculptors
* Americans in Paris, 1860-1900
* Art Nouveau
* The Arts and Crafts Movement in America
* The Ashcan School
* Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)
* Bronze Statuettes of the American West, 1850-1915
* Candace Wheeler (1827-1923)
* Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) and the West: 1860s-1870s
* Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)
* Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
* The Chiton, Peplos, and Himation in Modern Dress
* Classical Art and Modern Dress
* Classicism in Modern Dress
* Costume in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
* The Daguerreian Era and Early American Photography on Paper, 1839-1860
* Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)
* Dress Rehearsal: The Origins of the Costume Institute
* Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) and Charles-Honoré Lannuier (1779-1819)
* Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
* Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)
* Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
* From Model to Monument: American Public Sculpture, 1865-1915
* The Greek Key and Divine Attributes in Modern Dress
* The Guitar
* The Hudson River School
* Industrialization and Conflict in America: 1840-1875
* James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
* Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)
* John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872)
* John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
* Kodak and the Rise of Amateur Photography
* Lithography in the Nineteenth Century
* Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
* Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926)
* The Materials and Techniques of American Quilts and Coverlets
* Military Music in American and European Traditions
* Nineteenth-Century American Drawings
* Nineteenth-Century American Folk Art
* Nineteenth-Century American Jewelry
* Nineteenth-Century American Silver
* Nineteenth-Century Classical Music
* Nineteenth-Century Silhouette and Support
* Photography and the Civil War, 1861-1865
* Pictorialism in America
* Post-Revolutionary America: 1800-1840
* Presidents of the United States of America
* Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)
* Shoes in The Costume Institute
* Students of Benjamin West (1738-1820)
* Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
* Thomas Eakins (1844-1916): Painting
* Thomas Eakins (1844-1916): Photography, 1880s-1890s
* Thomas Sully (1783-1872) and Queen Victoria
* Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
* Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century France

68 essays American Art in the Twentieth Century

* Abstract Expressionism
* Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and American Photography
* Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and His Circle
* American Impressionism
* American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930s-1970s
* American Women Sculptors
* Art and Photography: 1990s-Present
* Art and Photography: The 1980s
* Art Nouveau
* Arthur Dove (1880-1946)
* The Ashcan School
* Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)
* The Bikini
* Body/Landscape: Photography and the Reconfiguration of the Sculptural Object
* Candace Wheeler (1827-1923)
* Charles Eames (1907-78) and Ray Eames (1912-88)
* Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
* The Chiton, Peplos, and Himation in Modern Dress
* Classical Art and Modern Dress
* Classicism in Modern Dress
* Conceptual Art and Photography
* Contemporary Deconstructions of Classical Dress
* Costume in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
* Design, 1900-25
* Design, 1925-50
* Design, 1950-75
* Design, 1975-present
* Dress Rehearsal: The Origins of the Costume Institute
* Dressing for the Cocktail Hour
* Early Documentary Photography
* Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
* Edward Steichen (1879-1973): The Photo-Secession Years
* Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) and Art
* Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
* Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
* From Model to Monument: American Public Sculpture, 1865-1915
* Geometric Abstraction
* Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
* The Greek Key and Divine Attributes in Modern Dress
* Group f/64
* Harry Burton (1879-1940): The Pharaoh's Photographer
* Haute Couture
* James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
* Jasper Johns (born 1930)
* John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
* Kodak and the Rise of Amateur Photography
* Le Colis de Trianon-Versailles and Paris Openings
* Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-933)
* Modern Materials: Plastics
* Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold
* The New Documentary Tradition in Photography
* Paul Strand (1890-1976)
* Photography and Everyday Life in America, 1945-60
* Photography in the Expanded Field: Painting, Performance, and the Neo-Avant-Garde
* Pictorialism in America
* The Pictures Generation
* The Postwar Print Renaissance in America
* Precisionism
* Presidents of the United States of America
* Shoes in The Costume Institute
* The Structure of Photographic Metaphors
* Surrealism
* Thomas Eakins (1844-1916): Painting
* Twentieth-Century Silhouette and Support
* Vivienne Westwood (born 1941) and the Postmodern Legacy of Punk Style
* Walker Evans (1903-1975)
* William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art website also contains in .pdf format numerous The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin articles and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal articles. Links to these articles may be accessed on pages containing selected thematic essays.

Michener (James A.) Art Museum

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Morse Museum

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe

The Museum of Modern Art (NYC)

National Gallery of Art

National Museum of the American Indian

National Museum of Wildlife Art

National Park Service

National Portrait Gallery (UK)

National Portrait Gallery (US) 

Nebraska Public Television

Nebraska Public Television maintains a web page that archives "MONA Moments on Nebraska Public Radio." which are written and narrated by Ron Roth, the director of the Museum of Nebraska Art. The NPTV web site says that the MONA Moments "...are designed to "educate and inform NPR listeners on Nebraska's visual art heritage, and to promote MONA." As of October 2004 there were 70 archived Moments on the NPTV web site. Each Moment has a separate web page containing a link to enable the viewer to replay the audio broadcast, a complete transcript of the audio, plus a small image of the art subject being covered. The thumbnail image is linked to a larger image with a caption on a separate page. The texts are from about 400 to 700 words in length. Examples are:

Newark Museum

Newington Cropsey Foundation

New Mexico Museum of Art

Nineteenth-Century Art Wordwide

 

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