Fine Art Collections
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American
History Collection
The history of America expressed
in images of its land and people. Maps of newly-explored
territories, paintings of spectacular landscapes, and
drawings of native people and cultures are presented
in a collection of remarkable images that reveal the
mystery and vitality of the New World.
Example Art/Artists: George
Catlin, Thomas Moran, U.S. Geological Survey Maps & Sketches,
John White |
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Birds & Botanicals
Collection
Among the most popular
images in the world are works depicting Birds and Plants. This collection
is a combination of images from several of our Museums. It
includes bird prints produced by Audubon, Botanical Prints from
the Desert Botanical Gardens and other spectacular
Bird and Botanical images produced by some of
the great Japanese print makers and renowned European
naturalists.
Example
Art/Artists: Albrecht,
Audubon, Ehret, Finch, Fossier, Henderson, Redoute, Utamaro |
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The
British Library
St Pancras, 96 Euston
Road - London NW1 2DB -
United Kingdom
The British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's
great repositories of knowledge. Serving business, educational,
and individual needs, its vision is to make the intellectual,
scientific and cultural heritage of the world accessible to
all people. Materials from 300 BC to the present are included
in its holdings with the Magna Carta and
Leonardo da Vinci notebooks among its treasures.
Example
Art/Artists: Beowulf, Diamond Sutra, Gutenberg
Bible, Magna Carta, Leonardo
da Vinci notebooks |
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The
British Library - Antique
Maps Collection
St
Pancras, 96 Euston Road - London NW1 2DB -
United Kingdom
The British Library is the United
Kingdom’s national
library and one of the finest in the world. Its collections
of rare and antique maps are not only magnificent works
of art, but also offer fascinating insights into the
history of our exploration and understanding of the
world in which we live.
Example
Art/Artists: Antique
Maps |
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The
British Library - Flora
and Fauna Collection
St
Pancras, 96 Euston Road - London NW1 2DB -
United Kingdom
The British Library
is the United Kingdom’s
national library and one of the finest in the world. Its superb
collection of animal, bird, and plant illustrations is a compelling
reminder of the beauty and elegance of the living world around
us.
Example
Art/Artists: Animal,
Bird, and Plant Illustrations |
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The
British Museum
Great
Russell Street - London WC1B 3DG -
United Kingdom
The British Museum is one of the greatest museums of the world. It
was founded by Act of Parliament in 1753 and is now governed under
the British Museum Act 1963. General management and control are vested
in a Board of twenty-five Trustees (one appointed by the Sovereign,
fifteen by the Prime Minister, four nominated by Learned societies
and five elected by the Trustees themselves.
Example Art/Artists: Albrecht
Dürer,
Blake, Choki,
Hokusai,
Rembrandt, Turner, Utamaro, John White |
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The
British Museum - 250th
Anniversary Celebration - 1753 Collection
Great
Russell Street - London WC1B 3DG -
United Kingdom
The British Museum, founded in 1753, will be celebrating
their 250th anniversary this year. The museum has chosen select
images from their archives and will be making them available to
the public.
Example
Art/Artists: Philippe Boitard, Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, Louis
Carmontelle - "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Playing Piano with
Father Leopold and sister Maria Anna", Westminister and London
Bridge Sketches, etc. |
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The
British Museum - Albrecht
Dürer Collection
Great
Russell Street - London WC1B 3DG -
United Kingdom
Dürer is undoubtedly the
most significant and admired artist of the northern Renaissance,
and the collection of his work in The British Museum,
London is one of the best in the world. His sophisticated
development of woodcut and engraving techniques changed
the history of printmaking.
Example Art/Artists: Albrecht
Dürer
Woodcuts, Engravings and Sketches |
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The
British Museum - Japanese Woodblock & Paintings
Collection
Great
Russell Street - London WC1B 3DG -
United Kingdom
The British Museum's collection
of Japanese art is the most wide-ranging in Europe, and
is particularly strong in the paintings, woodblock prints
and decorative arts of the Edo Period (1600-1868). Japanese
woodblock "ukiyo-e” prints
began to appear in Europe by 1860. Although the subject
matter was not well understood, their graphic power profoundly
influenced many European artists, especially Impressionist
and Post-Impressionist painters in the second half of
the nineteenth century.
Example Art/Artists: Woodblocks and Watercolor Paintings;
Choki, Hokusai, Kaisen, Shumman,
Utamaro,Yukinobu |
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The
British Museum - John White Collection
Great
Russell Street - London WC1B 3DG -
United Kingdom
Although many artists had sailed in voyages of discovery to North
America, it was John White who left the first convincing record of
the lands and people he encountered. White sailed as a draughts man-surveyor
with the first expedition to colonize Roanoke, Virginia in 1585.
The British Museum has 75 drawings from an album formerly in the
library of Lord Charlemont. A volume from the founding collection
of Sir Hans Sloane also includes examples of White's drawings.
Example Art/Artists: John White
Watercolors and Sketches |
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The
British Museum - Michelangelo
Collection
Great
Russell Street - London WC1B 3DG -
United Kingdom
The British Museum collection of work
by Michelangelo includes drawings by one of the
towering figures of the Italian Renaissance.
His unsurpassed talent was expressed through
sculpture, painting, and architecture, and his
art continues to astonish and inspire us with
its powerful themes and consummate skill.
Artist: Michelangelo
Buonarroti |
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The
British Museum - Select Assortment
Great
Russell Street - London WC1B 3DG -
United Kingdom
The British Museum now holds national
collections of antiquities; coins, metals and paper money;
ethnography; and prints and drawings. This assortment features
enduring pieces from various cultures, masters, time periods
and styles.
Example Art/Artists: Blake, Misc. Egyptian,
Rembrandt, Misc. Roman,Turner, Wood |
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DeGolyer
Library
P. O. Box 750396, Southern
Methodist University - Dallas, TX 75275-0396
Today the DeGolyer Library holds 100,000 volumes of rare and scholarly
works devoted to the exploration and discovery of the Americas,
Western Americana, the Spanish borderlands, and Texana. The library
also possesses materials related to transportation history, especially
railroads worldwide. In addition to printed books, the library
preserves 5000 cubic feet of manuscript material and 400,000 photographs.
Example Art/Artists: N/A |
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Denver
Art Museum
13th Ave & Acoma,
Downtown Denver - Denver, CO 80204
The Denver Art Museum, founded in
1893, has the largest and most comprehensive collection of
world art between Kansas City and the West Coast. Its
American Indian art collection is internationally
renowned, and its pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial
art collection is outstanding. Other impressive
collections include Painting & Sculpture,
Asian, Architecture, Design & Graphics, Modern & Contemporary,
and Textile Art.
Example Art/Artists: Deas,
Degas, Bierstadt, Bouguereau, Hicks, Monet, Pissarro |
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Desert
Botanical Garden
1201 North Galvin Parkway
- Phoenix,
AZ 85008
The Desert Botanical Garden is one of the
best-maintained gardens in the world, enjoyed by local residents
and visitors from around the world. It holds one of the world's
foremost collections of desert plants with detailed records
on all plants in the collection, information which is of both
horticultural and botanical value. The collection and its documentation
are of significance world-wide in conservation, education and
research.
Example
Art/Artists: Albrecht,
Ehret, Finch, Fossier, Henderson, Redoute |
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Desert
Caballeros Western Museum
21
North Frontier Street -
Wickenburg AZ 85390
You'll find western art, cowboy gear,
and Native American arts, plus period rooms and dioramas from
Arizona's territorial era. Come discover the "West as it was" in
Arizona's Most Western Museum.
Example Art/Artists: Albert Bierstadt,
George Catlin, Maynard Dixon, Lon Megargee, Thomas Moran,
Fredrick Remington, Charles M. Russell, Olaf Wieghorst |
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Dietrich
Photography
PO Box 1138
- Wickenburg, AZ 85358
Providing creative professionals with first
quality photographic illustrations of outstanding clarity, color
and impact for advertising, publishing, editorial, corporate, wall
art and retail uses by Dick Dietrich and Dianne Dietrich Leis.
Example Art/Artists: Dick Dietrich
and Dianne Dietrich Leis Photography |
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Harvard
University Art Museums
The Harvard University Art
Museums, one of the leading arts institutions in the
world, is distinguished by the range and depth of its
collections, groundbreaking exhibitions, and original
research. The three Harvard University Art Museums—the Fogg Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger
Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum—are all outstanding
institutions in their respective fields. The 150,000 objects
in the collections date from antiquity to the present, and
come from Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle
East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Example
Art/Artists: Burne-Jones,
Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Homer, Hopper,
Hsuan-tsung , Ingres, Klee, Klimt, Marc, Michelangelo,
Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rossetti, Sargent, Van Gogh,
Whistler |
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Historic
New England Collection
SPNEA Headquarters, 141 Cambridge
Street - Boston, MA 02114
Founded
in 1910 to protect New England's cultural and
architectural heritage, SPNEA is an internationally
known museum and national leader in preservation,
research, and innovative programming. SPNEA is
headquartered in Boston, with museums located
throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Rhode Island. SPNEA's Mission:
SPNEA is a museum of cultural history that collects
and preserves buildings, landscapes, and objects
dating from the seventeenth century to the present
and uses them to keep history alive and to help
people develop a deeper understanding and enjoyment
of New England life and an appreciation for its
preservation.
Example
Art/Artists: Burne-Jones,
Paul Revere |
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Japanese
Collection - Japanese Woodblock & Paintings
Collection
Japanese woodblock "ukiyo-e” prints
began to appear in Europe by 1860. Although the subject
matter was not well understood, their graphic power
profoundly influenced many European artists, especially
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters in
the second half of the nineteenth century.
Example Art/Artists: Woodblocks and Watercolor Paintings;
Choki, Hokusai, Kaisen, Shumman,
Utamaro,Yukinobu |
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Japanese
Gardens Portland
611 S.W. Kingston
Ave. - Portland, Oregon 97201
The Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon
is one of the most beautiful and authentic outside of Japan. Founded in 1962, The Garden
was designed by Professor Takuma Tono, an internationally renowned
authority on Japanese garden landscaping. It is composed of
five separate styles: the Flat Garden, the Strolling Pond Garden,
the Tea Garden, the Natural Garden, and the Dry Landscape Garden.
Example Art/Artists: Dianne Dietrich
Leis |
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Joseph
Mallord William Turner Collection
Turner
is one of Britain’s most celebrated
and prolific artists who produced tens of
thousand of works of art in his lifetime.
This special compilation of Turner’s
work shows his greatness and represents
some of his finest achievements. This
selection includes works from both
the Turner Bequest and the Vaughan
Bequest both of which reside in Tate
Britain. Tate houses the largest collection
of works by JMW Turner in the world.
Artist: JMW
Turner |
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Lawrence
Arts Center
940 New Hampshire Street -
Lawrence, Kansas 66044
For 25 years, the Lawrence Arts Center has acted as
a unifying force in our community, drawing people of
all ages, neighborhoods, backgrounds and abilities
to participate in an ever-growing array of education,
exhibition and performance programs. Performing and
visual arts programs have steadily grown to an annual participation
of 95,000.
Example
Art/Artists: "Grandma" Layton |
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"Masters"
Collection
This Collection of art comes
from some of the most well known artists in the world
and represents some of their most intriguing
and beautiful images. European greats such as Monet, Degas, Rembrandt and
Michelangelo are displayed along side American legends like Homer,
Bierstadt and Hopper, in this assemblage of works from some of
our most prominent Museums. Together, these images form
a World-Class compilation which epitomizes the Artistic World.
Example
Art/Artists: Monet,
Degas, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Homer,
Bierstadt, Hopper |
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Monterey
Museum of Art
Civic Center, 559 Pacific Street
- Monterey CA 93940
Noted for its endeavor to enrich
and educate through the arts, the Monterey Museum of Art
has been called "the best small
town Museum in the United States." The museum's permanent
collection includes California paintings, sculpture, works
on paper and photography, Asian art, international folk art,
and features significant bodies of work by Armin Hansen,
William Ritschel, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston.
Example
Art/Artists: Bruton,
Hansen, McCormick, Partington, Ritschel |
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Munson-Williams-Proctor
Arts Institute
310 Genesee Street - Utica, NY
13502
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, a renowned fine arts center
founded in 1919, features a permanent collection especially noted
for artwork by the Hudson River School. The museum is also a major
repository of 19th-century American decorative arts and 20th-century
American paintings and drawings with important holdings of the
New York School.
Example
Art/Artists: Cole, Copley, Dali, Frankenthaler,
Kandinsky, Mondrian, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Pollock,
Prendergast, Rothenberg, Stella, Tait and Whistler |
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Museum
of New Mexico - Museum of Fine Arts
107 West Palace
Avenue - Santa Fe, NM 87050
This masterpiece of Pueblo Revival
architecture was built in 1917 and as the state’s oldest
art museum is home to more than 20,000 works of art, with an
emphasis on artists working in the Southwest. View a distinguished
collection that spans the historic art colonies of Taos and
Santa Fe of the past 100 years to cutting-edge contemporary
art from around the region and the world.
Example
Art/Artists: Jozef G. Bakos, Andrew Michael Dasburg,
Willard van Dyke, Rebecca Salsbury James, James
Stoval Morris, Georgia O'Keeffe |
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Music
and Dance Collection
This collection from various
collections provides a glimpse into Music and Dance
of the past and from different cultures. Included
are portraits of several Great Composers and images of nobles
and common people as they provide entertainment to their
worlds.
Example
Art/Artists: Dancers, Musicians, Parades,
Composer Portraits |
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NASA
300 E St. SW - Washington, D.C.
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific
and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also
has been adapted for many non-aerospace uses by the private sector.
NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating
public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and
technology in general. Perhaps more importantly, our exploration
of space has taught us to view the Earth, ourselves, and the universe
in a new way.
Example
Art/Artists: N/A |
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National
Maritime Museum
Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
England
With
over 2,000,000 items related to seafaring, navigation
and astronomy in its care, the National Maritime Museum
is the largest institution of its kind in the world.
The National Maritime Museum collection of prints and
drawings alone numbers
60,000 with 30,000 of them drawings, watercolours
and sketchbook sheets, ranging from works by the early
Dutch marine painters in the 17th century to works
by British marine painters of the 18th - 20th centuries,
naval officers and the official artists of the Second
World War who painted and drew all aspects of their
experiences.
Example
Art/Artists: Cooke, Hodges, Turner |
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New
Mexico Magazine
Lew
Wallace Building, 495
Old Santa Fe Trail - Santa Fe, NM 87501
New Mexico Magazine, founded in 1923,
reigns as the oldest state magazine in the United States. Featuring
spectacular images and fascinating articles, it serves as the
primary connection for thousands of people interested in the
cultures, stories, landscapes and people of this ancient land.
These Classic Magazine Covers and photographs offer beautiful
evidence that New Mexico is indeed, "The Land of Enchantment".
Example Art/Artists: New Mexico
Magazine Old Covers, New Mexico Photography |
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Norman
Rockwell Estate
Norman
Rockwell portrayed America so beautifully that
his art has become a symbol of our nation.
His artwork is filled with the details of ordinary
people in everyday life, and captures the essence
of the American spirit. Norman Rockwell's illustrations
recall a simpler time and place that existed
not only in his own imagination, but in the
hopes and dreams of the nation he loved.
Artist: Norman Rockwell |
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Norman
Rockwell Estate - Christmas
Collection
Norman Rockwell's portrayals of America are never more alive, vivid
and heartfelt than in his Christmas collection. These memorable
reflections of the spirit of giving and the warmth of the season
are timeless. Just as with his political and social images, he
has captured the simple yet deep emotions perfectly.
Artist: Norman Rockwell |
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Orlando
Museum of Art
2416 North Mills Avenue - Orlando,
Florida 32803-1483
The Orlando Museum of Art is a leading cultural institution dedicated
to collecting, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of local,
regional, national and international significance. Cited as one
of the best art museums in the South, its American Art Collection
consists of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures
from the 18th century to the present.
Example
Art/Artists: Peale,
Sargent, Moran, Hassam, Inness, and O'Keeffe |
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Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond, Surrey TW9
3AB - United Kingdom
The mission of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is to enable better
management of the Earth's environment by increasing knowledge and
understanding of the plant and fungal kingdoms - the basis of life
on earth. On 3 July 2003 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was officially
inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The eminence
of Kew today is thanks to a succession of avid collectors, visionary
scientists, inspired landscape architects and redoubtable gardeners
who, over the centuries, have grown and developed the gardens,
and the collections they contain.
Example Art/Artists: John Day, C.B. Durham |
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Sports
Collection
World History has been greatly influenced by sports. The
contest of man versus man or man versus beast has been illustrated
since the first expressions of Art. This interesting
collection provides a wide variety of rare images of sports events
and captures such unique sports as jousting, hunting and
archery.
Example Art/Artists: Archery, Hunting, Fishing, Jousting,
Golf, Hawking, Horse Racing, Indian Lacrosse |
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Tate
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG -
United Kingdom
Tate houses the national collection of British art from
the sixteenth century to the present day, including the Turner
Bequest, and the national collection of international modern art.
Tate has almost 60,000 works in its collection, and includes the
largest collection of works by JMW Turner in the world. This selection
of works includes great images by Turner, Sargent, Whistler, Fildes
and Millais.
Example
Artists: Sargent, Turner, Whistler, Fildes and Millais |
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Toledo
Museum of Art
2445
Monroe Street at Scottwood Avenue - Toledo, Ohio 43620,
USA
In the heart of the Midwest lies one
of the great Art Treasures of this continent. With more than
30,000 items, The Toledo Museum of Art houses several thousand of them on
a permanent basis in its 35 galleries. The Permanent Collection
includes a great diversity of works from African Artists
to Van Gogh, from Tibetan Sculptures to Degas, from Egyptian
Stucco to Matisse.
Example Artists: Van Gogh, Degas, Matisse,
Turner |
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U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Service - Federal
Duck Stamp Office
Since beginning in 1934, the Federal Duck Stamp Program has become
one of the most popular and successful conservation programs ever
initiated. These wonderful images have provided habitat protection
for birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians. An estimated
one third of the nation's endangered and threatened species find
food or shelter in refuges preserved by Duck Stamp funds. The protected
wetlands also help dissipate storms, purify water supplies, store
flood water, and nourish fish hatchlings for sport and commercial
fishermen.
Example
Art/Artists: Duck
Stamp artwork |
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U.S.
Geological Survey
USGS
National Center - Reston, VA 20192, USA
Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the USGS has evolved over
the ensuing 120 years, matching its talent and knowledge to the
progress of science and technology. Today, the USGS stands as the
sole science agency for the Department of the Interior. It is sought
out by thousands of partners and customers for its natural science
expertise and its vast earth and biological data holdings. The
USGS is the science provider of choice in accessing the information
and helping resolve natural resource problems across the Nation
and around the world.
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Art/Artists: N/A |
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Vintage
Reproductions
Vintage Posters, or Art Posters
as they are often called, have
proven to be very popular items over the years. From the
Classic British Sports poster in our collection to the Product
Advertisements from the beginning of the 1900's, we reproduce these
images with the same archival quality materials that we use for
all of our prints. These images will last a lifetime and
will add a great touch to many homes and offices.
Example
Art/Artists: Early 1900s Product Advertisements,
British Sports Poster, Magazine Covers, Victorian Images |
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World
Religions
There is arguably no greater influence on Art than Religion. Through
the centuries, Religion has been a major inspiration to the artist.
This is true regardless of the Religion or Religious event that
has been portrayed. This is a very substantial collection compiled
from a wide variety of sources including the British Library, the
Denver Art Museum, the Museum of New Mexico, the Tate Museums,
the British Museum, Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, The
Desert Caballeros Western Museum and Harvard.
Example
Art/Artists: Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, Native American,
and other religious imagery |
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The
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan
Avenue - Chicago, Illinois 60603
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded
in 1879, comprises both a museum and a school. The original,
core beaux-arts building was built in 1893 to be used as an
auxiliary meeting place for the World's Columbian Exposition
and to become the permanent home of the Art Institute. The
museum houses more than 300,000 works of art within its
10 curatorial departments. Among its great treasures
are the legendary artworks "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande
Jatte" -1884 by Georges Seurat, "American Gothic" by
Grant Wood, "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper and 33
paintings by Claude Monet.
Example Art/Artists: Hopper, Monet,
Rembrandt, Seurat, Wood |
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The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
POB 71117 - Jerusalem, 91710
Israel
Founded in 1965, the Israel Museum
today has, in a relatively short time, achieved world class
status with collections ranging from prehistoric archaeology
through contemporary art. With a dynamic roster of temporary
exhibitions, publications, and educational activities. It is
the leading cultural institution in Israel and is one of the
largest encyclopedic museums in the world.
Example
Art/Artists: Historical
Manuscripts, Bouguereau, Cezanne, Chagall,
Gauguin, Rembrandt, Rubin |
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Mount
Holyoke College Art Museum
Lower Lake Road - South Hadley, MA 01075-1499
Recently renovated and expanded, the Mount Holyoke
College Art Museum is one of the oldest collegiate
museums in the United States. Its founding in
1876 was marked by the gift of Albert Bierstadt's
majestic painting "Hetch Hetchy Canyon". Located
in the culturally rich Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts
on one of America’s most beautiful campuses,
the museum maintains an exquisite comprehensive
collection of more than 11,000 objects, ranging
from ancient Egypt, China, and Peru to contemporary
America.
Example Art/Artists: Bierstadt,
Cortona, Daubigny, Winslow Homer, Annie Leibovitz |
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The
Quilts of Gee's Bend
Gee’s Bend is
a small rural community nestled into a curve
in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama.
The town’s women developed
a distinctive, bold, and sophisticated quilting
style based on traditional American (and African
American) quilts, but with a geometric simplicity
reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art. The "Quilts
of Gee’s Bend" exhibition
has received tremendous international acclaim,
beginning at its showing in Houston, then at
the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
and the other museums on its twelve-city American
tour. Newsweek, National Public Radio’s
Talk of the Nation, Art in America, CBS News
Sunday Morning, PBS’s NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer, the Martha Stewart Living television
show, House and Garden, Oprah’s O magazine,
and Country Home magazine are among the hundreds
of print and broadcast media organizations that
have celebrated the quilts and the history of
this unique town.
Example Art/Artists: Images
of traditional American and African American Quilts |
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The
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
224
Benefit Street - Providence, RI 02903
The
RISD Museum traces the history
of art from antiquity to
the present through its collection
of more than 85,000 works
of art in all media and from all cultures. Works of Art range
from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture to French Impressionist
paintings, from Chinese stone and terracotta sculpture to contemporary
art in every medium.
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Thornton
Dial Collection
Born in tiny
Emelle, Alabama, to an unwed teenage
mother, Dial never learned his father’s identity. In his early
teens, he and his half brother, Arthur,
were sent to live with female relatives
in Bessemer. He dropped out of school
and went to work at a wide variety of
jobs, principally as a welder’s
assistant (only whites could be welders
for much of Dial’s tenure) at the
Pullman Standard boxcar factory in Bessemer.
In the early 1950s, he and his wife settled
in the Bessemer neighborhood called “Pipe
Shop.” There they raised five children.
Although Dial began making “things” at
an early age and continued to create
art throughout adulthood, he concealed
his work or destroyed it, out of apprehension
about the frankness of its content.
His work came at last to the attention
of the outside world in 1987. Since
then, he has produced an extremely
varied body of work—paintings,
assemblage, sculpture, works on paper—concerned
with issues the artist considers of
deepest concern to humanity. Emanating
from African American traditions, these
artworks have come to challenge conventional
notions about folk art.
Example Artist:
Thornton Dial |
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Tinwood
Media Collections
980 Marietta
Street NW -
Atlanta, GA 30318
Tinwood Media produces
books, films and interactive products that bring
to light an American civilization few know. We
specialize in the unveiling of unique and original
visual art forms. Our work has been called "so
profound it's subversive."
Example Artist: Thorton Dial,
The Quilts of Gee's Bend |
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Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts
200 N. Boulevard - Richmond, Virginia USA 23220-4007
The Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts houses a remarkable permanent collection of more
than twenty thousand works of art from almost every
major world culture. The museum’s collection
of South Asian, Himalayan, and African art is among
the finest in the nation.
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Yale
University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Welcome to the Yale
University Art Gallery, the oldest college
art museum in the western hemisphere. The
Art Gallery was founded in 1832, when Yale
College received over one hundred history
paintings and portraits by and from the patriot-artist
John Trumbull, and the Trumbull Gallery was
built to house them. Since then the
collections have grown to number more than
eighty-five thousand objects from around
the world, dating from ancient Egyptian times
to the present.
Example Art/Artists:
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