The
Art Institute of Chicago - 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.
The
British Library- 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 today are included
in its holdings, and treasures such as the
Magna Carta and Leonardo da Vinci's notebook
are counted among its treasures.
The
British Museum- 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.
DeGolyer
Library- 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.
Denver
Art Museum- 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.
Desert
Botanical Garden- 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.
Desert
Caballeros Western Museum - 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.
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.
The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem-
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 and 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.
Lawrence
Arts Center - 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.
Monterey
Museum of Art - 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.
Mount
Holyoke College Art Museum - 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.
Munson-Williams-Proctor
Arts Institute - 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.
Museum
of New Mexico - Museum of Fine Arts - 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.
National
Maritime Museum- The
National Maritime Museum is the largest institution
of its kind in the world, with over
2,000,000 items related to seafaring,
navigation and astronomy in its care.
The Museum's prints and drawings collection
which comprises more than 60,000 items.
Over 30,000 of these are 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.
Orlando
Museum of Art- 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.
The
Rhode Island School of Design Museum - 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.
Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew-
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.
Tate - 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.
Toledo
Museum of Art - 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.
Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts - 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.
Yale
University Art Gallery - 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.
Art Collections & Special Interest Links
Dietrich
Photography- 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.
Historic
New England Collection-
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.
Japanese
Gardens Portland- 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.
NASA - 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.
New
Mexico Magazine - 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".
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.
The
Qulits 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.
Tinwood
Media Collections -
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."
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.
U.S.
Geological Survey-
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.
Fine Art Galleries & Frameshops
Abbey
Blessings Gallery -
Abbey Blessings, a collection of fine
products and gifts to help enrich your relationships
and savor the simple pleasures in your daily life.
Abbey Blessings is owned and operated by Saint Meinrad
Archabbey.
Harlem
Fine Arts Collection-
"We are bigger and better than ever!" Harlem
Fine Arts Collection is happy to have You visit our
brand new and improved website! harlemfinearts.com.
We will continue bringing You the best quality Fine
Art and Fine Art Prints available on the market today.
We look forward and welcome your emails so feel free
to write us often if You have questions about any
of the many Artists works of Art that You may discover
on our website or that You have seen somewhere else.
Harlem Fine Arts works together with the several
galleries around the country as well as appraisers
to bring You great selections and great values in
Art.
Guyette
Gallery & Frame -
Located in Canandaigua, New York. "Framing
Memories...Past and Present"
Snow
Goose Gallery -
The Snow Goose Gallery is a family-owned art gallery
and frame shop located in Columbia, Maryland -
midway between Baltimore and Washington - specializing
in collectible limited edition prints and canvases.
Our name was chosen from the title of the well-known
book The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico.
Interior Designers & Architects
Art Information and Art Related Links
AskArt.com-
American artists directory covering the 16th to
the 21st century featuring the North American Artist,
painter, and illustrator with auction results,
bibliography, exhibitions, art dealer, museum,
prices, books, and appraisal information.
Ready-to-Hang-
Ready-to-Hang is a giclée product line offered
from LookClickPrint comprising a selection of Museum
reproductions in a pre-matted format. Images are
mounted in a double matte and ready to be placed
in an off-the-shelf standard 11"x14" frame.
