The foundation of the Art in Action Program is 108 world art masterpieces spanning 19,000 years of human history and many cultures. The Program consists of 9 program levels with 12 lessons in each program level. For each lesson, see details in the table below of the masterpiece, its location, and the student project.
| Program K | Art Around the World (K) | Project | Museum etc. |
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| Vincent van Gogh | Sunflowers | Tempera flower still life | Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers 1888, oil on canvas, 91 cm. x 72 cm. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany |
| Wassily Kandinsky | Lines of Signs | Oil pastel with tempera wash story | Wassily Kandinsky, Lines of Signs 1931, oil on canvas, 16 in. x 19.75 in. Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland Photo Credit: Scala/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris |
| Native American Zuni Kachina | Kachina Doll (Kyanaque Kahana) | Collage Native American mask | Native American, Pueblo, Zuni, Kachina Doll (Kyanaque Kahana) late 19th or early 20th century; wood, pigments, cotton, hide, wool, feather, paper, metal; 15 in. x 5 in. x 3 1/2 in. (38.1 cm. x 12.7 cm. x 8.9 cm.) |
| Pierre Auguste Renoir | Children on the Seashore | Fingerpaint seascape | Pierre Auguste Renoir, Children on the Seashore 1883, oil on canvas, 91.4 cm. x 66.4 cm. Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, USA |
| Persian Art | A Game of Polo | Marker pen Persian miniature landscape | Persian School, A Game of Polo
Late 16th c., pen, ink and watercolor on paper, 13 in. x 9.875 in.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library
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| Byzantine Mosaic | The Court of Empress Theodora | Mosaic fish | Byzantine Mosaic, The Court of Empress Theodora.
526–551 CE, mosaic, nearly lifesize figures.
S. Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.
Photo Credit: Scala/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
| Grant Wood | American Gothic | Oil pastel portrait | Grant Wood, American Gothic
1930, oil on beaver board, 30 11/16 in. x 25 11/16 in. (78 cm. x 65.3 cm.)
Friends of American Art Collection, 1930.934
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago
Art © Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, USA |
| African Sculpture, Yoruba | Ivory Box | Clay handprint plaque | African Sculpture, Nigeria, Yoruba Peoples, Ivory Box
early 1800s, ivory, lg. 6 1/2 in.
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, USA, 77.28
Photo Credit: Michael Cavanagh and Kevin Montague, Indiana University Art Museum |
| Okajuma Toyohiro | Four Accomplishments, No. 2 | Tempera printed trees | Okajuma Toyohiro, Four Accomplishments, No. 2
early 19th c., block print on silk, 25 in. x 10.25 in.
Freer Gallery, Washington D.C., USA |
| French Tapestry | The Unicorn Tapestries: The Hunt of the Unicorn: in Captivity | Yarn weaving | French Tapestry, The Unicorn Tapestries: The Hunt of the Unicorn: in Captivity
1495–1505; wool warp, wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts; 12 ft. 1 in. x 8 ft. 3 in. (368 cm. x 251.5 cm.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA, Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937 (37.80.6)
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Henri Rousseau | Virgin Forest with Setting Sun | Chalk pastel landscape | Henri Rousseau, Virgin Forest with Setting Sun
ca. 1910, oil on canvas, 114 cm. x 162.5 cm.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Photo Credit: Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin Bühler |
| Piet Mondrian | Student Artwork | Abstract collage composition | Student Artwork inspired by Piet Mondrian
Based on poster image, Composition #2 |
| Program 1 | Art Tells a Story (1) | Project | Museum etc. |
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| Marc Chagall | Chagall: I and the Village | Oil pastel story with wash | Marc Chagall, I and the Village
1911, oil on canvas, 15 5/8 in. x 59 5/8 in.
© Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA
Digital Image The Museum of Modern Art, New York/ Licensed by SCALA/ART Resource, New York, NY,USA
© Artists Right Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris |
| African Tribal Art | Banda Mask | Collage mask with marker pen | Banda Mask
late 19th or early 20th century; wood, metal, pigment
61 1/2 in. x 15 3/4 in. x 15 3/8 in. (156 cm. x 40 cm. x 39 cm.)
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Caroline A.L. Pratt Fund
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| Paul Klee | Sinbad the Sailor | Fingerpaint seascape with sea creatures | Paul Klee, Battle Scene from the comic-fantastic opera “The Seafarer”
1923; oil transfer drawing, pencil, watercolor, and gauache on paper on cardboard; 34.5 cm. x 50 cm.
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland
Photo Credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA
© 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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| Polynesian Art | Polynesian, Tapa Cloth | Printed panel | 21st c., bark cloth and dye, 13 in. x 18 in.
Fiji Islands |
| Georges Seurat | The Circus | Tempera pointillist butterfly | Georges Seurat, The Circus
1890–91, oil on canvas, 73 in. x 59 1/8 in.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
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| Pieter Bruegel | Winter Scene | Oil pastel landscape | Pieter Bruegel, Winter Scene
1565, oil on canvas, 46 in. x 64 in.
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
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| Native American Tlingit Sculpture | Native American Tlingit Sculpture | Clay animal | early 1800s
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Denver Art Museum Collection: Native Arts Acquisition Fund, 1938.231
© Denver Art Museum
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| Claude Monet | Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies | Tempera landscape | 1899, oil on canvas, 36 1/2 in. x 29 in. (92.7 cm. x 73.7 cm.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Image Copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA
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| Romare Bearden | She-Ba | Collage figure | Romare Bearden, She-Ba
1970; paper, cloth, and paint on board; 48 in. x 35 7/8 in.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, The Ella Gallup Summer and Mary Catlin Summer Collection Fund
Art © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, USA
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| Egyptian Stela | Lector Priest of Amun | Oil pastel figure with hieroglyphs | Egyptian stela, Si-Amun, Chantress Amun-hotpe
ca. 1550–1295 B.C., painted limestone, 13 in. x 8.25 in. x 3.5 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA, Purchase Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1969 (1970.49)
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| Joan Miró | People and Dog in the Sun | Chalk pastel fantasy figure | Joan Miró, People and Dog in the Sun
1949, tempera on canvas, 81 cm. x 54.5 cm.
Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel
Photo Credit: Kunstmuseum, Martin Bühler
© 2007 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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| Jackson Pollock | Composition | Abstract tempera drip painting | Jackson Pollock, Composition
1943, oil on canvas, 26 1/8 in. x 21 3/16 in. (66.4 cm. x 53.8 cm.)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
The Baltimore Museum of Art: Bequest of Saidie A. May BMA 1951.349
© 2007 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY, USA
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| Program 2 | The Artist's Vision (2) | Project | Museum etc. |
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| Prehistoric Artists | Lascaux Cave | Charcoal animals | ca. 17,000 B.C.E., prehistoric cave painting Lascaux Caves, Perigord, Dordogne, France Photo Credit: Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
| Paul Klee | Head of a Man | Collage portrait | Paul Klee, Senecio 1922; oil on printed gauze on cardboard; original frame, 40.5 cm. x 38.4 cm. Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland Photo Credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn |
| Li T'ang | Old Man and Child on Buffalo | Tempera painting using a stick | ca. 1100, ink on silk
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA |
| Nellie Mae Rowe | Stormey Weather | Oil pastel animal design | Nellie Mae Rowe, Stormey Weather [sic] 1980, oil on canvas, 22 in. x 24 in. Art in Action, Menlo Park, CA, USA |
| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Hockey Players | Tempera printed figures | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hockey Players 1934, oil on canvas Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, NY, USA © by Ingeborg & Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern |
| Vincent van Gogh | Self Portrait | Fingerpaint portrait | Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait 1889, oil on canvas, 65 cm. x 54.5 cm. Musee d’Orsay, Paris, France Photo Credit: Enrich Lessing/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
| Nathaniel Currier & James Ives | Across the Continent | Tempera/print | Currier & Ives, Across the?Continent, “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” 1868, lithograph, 20 in. x 27 in. Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, USA |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Portrait of Nicolas | Clay portrait | Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait Study of his son Nicolas 1621; black, red, and white chalk; 25.2 cm. x 20.3 cm. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria Photo Credit: Enrich Lessing/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
| Paul Cézanne | Still Life | Oil pastel | Paul Cezanne, Still Life 1890–94, oil on canvas, 12.75 in. x 16 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA |
| El Greco | View of Toledo | Chalk pastel landscape | El Greco, View of Toledo ca. 1600, oil on canvas, 48 in. x 43 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
| Pablo Picasso | Three Musicians | Collage figures | Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians
1921, oil on canvas, 79 in. x 87 3/4 in.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA
© 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY, USA |
| Wassily Kandinsky | Color Study | Abstract tempera composition | Wassily Kandinsky, Color Study 1913, oil on canvas Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris |
| Program 3 | Perspective in Art (3) | Project | Museum etc. |
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| Johannes Vermeer | Milk Maid | Tempera vase with shading | Johannes Vermeer, Milk Maid ca. 1658, oil on canvas, 45.5 cm. x 41 cm. Rijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| African Textiles | Adire Cloth | Printed design on woven mat | African Weaving, Adire Cloth |ca. 1850, indigo dyed cotton cloth |High Museum of Art, |Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Vincent van Gogh | Starry Night | Tempera landscape | Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night 1889, oil on canvas, 29 in. x 36 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA |
| Albert Bierstadt | Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm | Watercolor/OP | Albert Bierstadt, Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm 1869, oil on canvas, 29 1/2 in. x 49 1/2 in. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA, 60.1 Museum Purchase, through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Landsell K. Christie |
| Joan Miró | Carnival of Harlequin | Collage fantasy interior scene | Joan Miró, Carnival of Harlequin
1924–5, oil on canvas, unframed: 26 in. x 35 5/8 in. (66.04 cm. x 90.48 cm.)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
The Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1940
© 2007 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio | Domenico Ghirlandaio, Francesco Sassetti and his son Teodoro | Chalk pastel portrait | ca. 1487, tempera on wood, 84.5 cm. x 64 cm.|The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. |
| Wang Yuan-Ch’i | Pavilion with Distant Mountain | Watercolor landscape | Wang Yuan-Ch’i, Pavilion with Distant Mountain
17th c., ink on paper, 35.6 cm. x 38 cm.
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| Maurice Utrillo | Street in the Suburbs | Oil pastel landscape showing perspective | Maurice Utrillo, Street in the Suburbs
early 1900s, oil pastels, 29 in. x 23 in.
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Photo Credit: Bridgeman-Giraudon/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA
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| Native American | Shield | Clay plaque | Cheyenne, Shield
1860–68, buffalo hide with feathers, 19.5 in. tall
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
Gift of Detroit Scientific Association
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| Thomas Cole | Scene from “The Last of the Mohicans,” Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund | Tissue collage scene | Thomas Cole, Scene from “The Last of the Mohicans,” Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund
1827, oil on canvas, 25 3/8 in. x 35 1/16 in.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
Bequest of Alfred Smith
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| Edgar Degas | Race Horses | Watercolor landscape with horse | Edgar Degas, Race Horses
1862, oil on canvas, 19 in. x 22 in.
Musee d’Orsay, Paris, France
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| Georges Braque | Still Life: Le Jour | Collage still life | Georges Braque, Still Life: Le Jour
1929, oil on canvas, 45 1/4 in. x 57 3/4 in.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Chester Dale Collection
Image © 2007 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
© 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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| Program 4 | Modern Art (4) | Project | Museum etc. |
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| Salvador Dali | Swans Reflecting Elephants | Watercolor landscape with oil pastel animal | 1937, oil on canvas, 51 cm. x 77 cm. Coll. Cavalieri Holding, Geneva, Switzerland Photo Credit: Bridgeman-Giraudon/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA © 2007 Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY, USA |
| George Bellows | Dempsey and Firpo | Wire sculpture figure | George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo 1924, oil on canvas, 51 in. x 63.25 in. (129.5 cm. x 160.7 cm.) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. USA Purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.95 |
| Richard Diebenkorn | Ocean Park No. 54 | Watercolor landscape | Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park No. 54 1972, oil on canvas, 100 in. x 81 in. (254 cm. x 205.7 cm.) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA Catalogue Raisonné number 1469 © The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn |
| Pablo Picasso | Weeping Woman | Tempera portrait | Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman 1937, oil on canvas, 60.8 cm. x 50 cm. Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain Photo Credit: Tate Gallery, London/Art Resource, New York, NY USA © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY USA |
| Charles Demuth | The Figure Five in Gold | Oil pastel design | Charles Demuth, The Figure Five in Gold 1928, oil on cardboard, 35.5 in. x 30 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
| Henri Matisse | Interior with Aubergines | Printed interior with collage figure | Henri Matisse, Interior with Aubergines 1911, distemper on canvas, 21 in. x 24 in. Musee des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France/Peter Willi Photo: © The Bridgeman Art Library © 2007 Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY, USA |
| Franz Marc | Two Cats, blue and yellow | Chalk pastel animal | Franz Marc, Two Cats, blue and yellow 1912, oil on canvas, 74 cm. x 98 cm. Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland Photo credit: Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin Bühler |
| Auguste Rodin | The Thinker | Clay figure | Auguste Rodin, The Thinker 1880, bronze, 7 ft. tall x 5 ft. deep x 3 ft. wide Musee Rodin, Paris, France Photo Credit: Vanni/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
| Diego Rivera | The Zapotec Civilization | Tempera landscape with figures and objects | Diego Rivera, The Zapotec Civilization
1942, mural, 4.92 m. x 3.2 m.
Patio Coridor, National Palace, Mexico City DF, Mexico
Photo Credit: Schalkwijk/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA
© 2008 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av. Cinco de Mayo No.2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México, D.F. |
| Georgia O’Keeffe | Poppies | Oil pastell flowes with watercolor | Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), Poppies
1950, oil on canvas, 36 in. x 30 in.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, [M1977.133]
Photography by Matthew Marston
© 2007 Georgia O’Keefe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY, USA |
| Wayne Thiebaud | Dessert Table | Tempera object series | Wayne Thiebaud, Dessert Table 1996, oil on canvas, 48 in. x 60 in. Private Collection Art © Wayne Thiebaud/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, USA |
| Victor Vasarely | Tridem K | Abstract watercolor composition | Victor Vasarely, Tridem K 1968, tempera on panel, 11 in. x 28 in. © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris |
| Program 5 | American Art (5) | Project | Museum etc. |
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| Winslow Homer | Snap The Whip | Oil pastel object series | Winslow Homer, Snap the Whip
1872, oil on canvas, 22 in. x 36 in.
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, USA
Photographer: Francis G. Mayer
Image © Bettmann/CORBIS
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| Faith Ringgold | Dancing at the Louvre | Collage quilt design | Faith Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre
1991, acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed, pieced fabric border, 73.5 in. x 80 in.
Private Collection
Faith Ringgold © 1997
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| John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart | Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel) | Charcoal portrait | John Singleton Copley, Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
|Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, 1796, oil on canvas, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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| William Harnett | My Gems | Tempera still life with shading | William Harnett, My Gems
1888, oil on wood, 18 in. x 13 3/4 in.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
Image © 2007 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
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| Andy Warhol | 100 Cans | Printed icon with repetition | Andy Warhol, 100 Cans
1962, oil on canvas, 72 in. x 52 in. (182.88 cm. x 132.08 cm.)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA, Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1963
© 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York, NY, USA
© 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation/ARS, NY/TM Licensed by Campbell’s Soup Co. All Rights Reserved.
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| Claes Oldenburg | Two Cheese Burgers, with Everything | Clay food | Claes Oldenburg, Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything
1962; burlap sack in plaster, painted with enamel; 7 in. x 14 3/4 in. x 8 5/8 in.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Digital Image (c) The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA
Courtesy of Oldenburg van Bruggen Studio
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| Colonial Limner Artists | Young Boy with a Dog | Tempera figure | Colonial Artist, Limner Style, Samuel Miller, artist, Young Boy with a Dog
ca. 1850, oil on canvas mounted on hardboard, 39 in. x 26 1/2 in. (99.1 cm. x 67.3 cm.)
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
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| William H. Bradley | Victor Bicycles | Marker pen poster composition | William H. Bradley, Victor Bicycles
1897, color lithograph, 27 in. x 41 in.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA
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| Frederic Remington | The Apache | Watercolor landscape with horses | Frederic Remington, The Apache
ca. 1891, oil on canvas, 26 in. x 36 in.
Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY, USA
Image Credit: Rockwell Foundation purchase
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| Jacob Lawrence | The Studio | Colored pencil interior with perspective | Jacob Lawrence, The Studio
1977, gouache on paper, 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm. x 55.88 cm.)
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Partial gift of Gull Industries; John H. and Ann Hauberg; Links, Seattle; and gift by exchange
from the estate of Mark Tobey. Photo Credit: Paul Macapia
© 2007 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY, USA
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| John James Audubon | Wild Turkey | Chalk pastel bird | James Audubon, Wild Turkey
1822, watercolor on paper, 36 in. x 25 in.
The New-York Historical Society, New York, NY, USA
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| Helen Frankenthaler | Blue Atmosphere | Abstract watercolor composition | Helen Frankenthaler, Blue Atmosphere
1963, acrylic on canvas, 23 in. x 29 in.
Collection of the Artist
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| Program 6 | Ancient Art (6) | Project | Museum etc. |
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| André Derain | Fishing Boats | Tempera seascape with boats | André Derain, Fishing Boats |
1905, oil on canvas, 32 in. x 39 in. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
© 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris |
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| Babylonian Art | Two Panels with Striding Lions | Chalk pastel animal | Neo-Babylonian, Two Panels with Striding Lions |
604–562 B.C., glazed brick, ht. 38 1/4 in. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
Image Copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
| About Egyptian Sculpture | Mummy Cartonnage of Nespanetjerenpere | Clay figure | Egyptian sculpture, Mummy Cartonnage of Nespanetjerenpere |
ca. 945–715 B.C.E.; linen or papyrus mixed with plaster, painted, with eyes and eyebrows inlaid with glass and lapis lazuli; 69 3/4 in. long |
35.1265, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, |
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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| Egyptian Art | Presentation of the Cup | Marker pen grid drawing | Egyptian art, Presentation of the Cup |
ca. 1000 B.C.E., fresco, 36 in. x 25 in. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
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| Xia Ch'ang | Bamboo in the Wind | Watercolor landscape | Xia Ch’ang, Bamboo in the Wind |
1460; hanging scroll, ink on paper; 80 1/4 in. x 23 1/2 in. (203.8 cm. x 59.7 cm.) |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
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| Chinese Textile | Five-Clawed Dragon | Watercolor animal | Chinese textile, Five-Clawed Dragon |
Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644; embroidery on silk; 12.25 in. x 11.75 in. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
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| Exekias | Neck-amphora with lid | Oil pastel figure and vase drawing | Exekias, Neck-amphora with lid |
ca. 540 BCE; terracotta; ht. 18 1/2 in. (47 cm.), diam. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm.) |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
Image Copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA
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| Greek Architecture | The Parthenon | Sculptural architecture composition | Phidias, Ictinus, and Callicrates, The Parthenon |
447 B.C.E., marble |
Acropolis, Athens, Greece |
Photo Credit: Vanni/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
| Marc Chagall | America Windows | Marker pen stained glass story | Marc Chagall, America Windows, Left bay: panel 1, Music; panel 2, Art
1977, Stained glass, 244 cm. x 978 cm. (overall)|
A gift of Marc Chagall, the City of Chicago, and the Auxiliary Board of The Art Institute of Chicago, commemorating the American Bicentennial in memory of Mayor Richard J. Daley, 1977.938|
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA|
Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago |
| Jacques Louis David | The Oath of the Horatii | Marker pen architecutural setting | Jacques Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii |
1789, oil on canvas, 330 cm. x 425 cm. |
Louvre, Paris, France |
Photo credit: Enrich Lessing/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
| Fayum Portrait | Portrait of a thin-faced, bearded man | Chalk pastel portrait | Portrait of a thin-faced, bearded man |
A.D. 160–180; encaustic, limewood; 15 in. x 8 1/2 in. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
Rogers Fund, 1909 (09.181.1) |
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Sonia Delaunay | Rythme 38 (1938) | Abstract tempera composition | Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Rythme 38 (1938) |
Oil on canvas, 182 cm. x 149 cm. |
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
Photo: Jacqueline Hyde |
Photo Credit: CNAC/MNAM/Dist. Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
©L&M SERVICES B.V., The Hague 20070808 |
| Program 7 | Renaissance Art (7) | Project | Museum etc. |
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| Jan van Eyck | The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini with Giovanna Cenami | Tempera object with shading | Jan van Eyck, The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini with Giovanna Cenami|
1434, oil on canvas, 32 in. x 23 in.|
National Gallery, London, England |
| Book of Kells | Illuminated manuscript, the Chi Rho page of the Book of Kells | Marker pen illustration | Illuminated manuscript, the Chi Rho page of the Book of Kells|
ca. 800 C.E., ink on vellum|
Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland |
| Ambrogio Lorenzetti | Allegory of Good Government: Effects of Good Government in the City, detail of commerce | Sculpcomp/tempera landscape | Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Good Government: Effects of Good Government in the City, detail of commerce|
ca. 1337–40, fresco, wall size|
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy|
Photo Credit: Scala/Art Resource, NY |
| Paolo Uccello | Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano| | Watercolor landscape | 1450–56, distemper on wood, 180 cm. x 316 cm.|
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France|
Photo Credit: Enrich Lessing/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA |
| Sandro Botticelli | Primavera | Charcoal figures and rubbings | Sandro Botticelli, Primavera|
1477–78, tempera on wood, 10 ft. x 7 ft.|
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy |
| Islamic Design | Taj Mahal | Cut paper collage | Islamic, Taj Mahal|
built 1633–53, masonry and inlaid marble|
Agra, India|
Photo Credit: Ray Church|
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| Yoruba | Yuroba Ivory Bracelet | Clay animal | Yoruba, Armlet
16th/18th c., ivory, 4 1/4 in. diameter|
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA|
Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund|
Photograph © 1985 The Detroit Institute of Arts |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Mona Lisa | Chalk pastel portrait | Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa|
1503–06, oil on wood, 21 in. x 16 in.|
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France |
| Raphael Sanzio | School of Athens | Marker pen architecture with photo | Raphael Sanzio, School of Athens|
1509–11, fresco, 304 in.|
Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome, Italy |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti | The Creation of Adam | Charcoal drawing | Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Creation of Adam|
ca. 1508–12, fresco|
The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Italy |
| Katsushika Hokusai | The Great Wave, from Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji | Printed objects/landscape | Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave, from Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji|
ca. 1823–29, colored woodcut, 10 in. x 15 in.|
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA |
| Wassily Kandinsky | Untitled, no. 629 | Abstract watercolor composition | Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled, no. 629|
1936, oil on canvas, 51 3/8 in. x 32 1/16 in. (130.5 cm. x 81.4 cm.)|
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, USA|
Gift from the estate of Mrs. Aldus Chapin Higgins|
© 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, France |
| Program 8 | Art and the American Experience (8) | Project | Museum etc. |
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| Roy Lichtenstein | Roy Lichtenstein, BLAM | Marker pen composition | 1962, oil on canvas, 68 in. x 80 in. (172.7 cm. x 203.2 cm.) |
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA|
© Yale University Art Gallery / Art Resource, New York, NY
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| Flo Oy Wong | Flo Oy Wong, Sue Shee ran the Corner | Multi-media composition with printing | 1993; silk-screened photos, thread, text, wood; 28 in. x 32 in. |
Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY, USA
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| Edward Hopper | Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad | Watercolor architecture with perspective | 1925, oil on canvas, 24 in. x 29 in.|
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA|
Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA
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| Dorothea Lange | Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother | Charcoal portrait with shading | 1936, gelatin silver on paper, |
Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX, USA
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| George Caleb Bingham | George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri | Watercolor landscape | 1845, oil on canvas, 29 in. x 36.5 in.|
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
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| Mimbres Potters | Mimbres, Pottery | Clay bowl | ca. 1000 A.D., pottery|
Courtesy of Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, Catalog No. 40_4_276
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| Grant Wood | Grant Wood, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere | Chalk pastel landscape | 1931, oil on masonite, 30 in. x 40 in. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA|
Image Copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York, NY, USA|
Art © Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, USA
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| Robert Rauschenberg | Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive I | Tempera/collage composition | 1963, oil and silk screen on canvas, 84 in. x 60 in. |
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Hartford, CT, USA|
Gift of Susan Morse Hilles|
Art © Robert Rauschenberg/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, USA
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| Thomas Hart Benton | Thomas Hart Benton, Cotton Pickers | Watercolor landscape with figure | 1931, oil on canvas, 30 in. x 36 in.|
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA|
Art © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, USA
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| Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party | Computer/OP | 1979, mixed media, 36 ft. x 48 ft. x 42 ft. |
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA|
Photo © Donald Woodman
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| George Segal | George Segal, Girl in Doorway | Figure sculpture with architecture background | 1965, plaster, wood, glass and aluminum paint, 113 in. x 63.5 in x 18 in. (287 cm. x 161.3 cm. x 45.7 cm.)|
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA|
Purchase 65.49|
Art © The George and Helen Segal Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, USA
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| Frank Stella | Frank Stella, Darabjerd III | Abstract tempera composition | 1967, acrylic on canvas, 120 1/8 in. x 180 1/4 in. |
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA|
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972|
Photo Credit: Lee Stalsworth|
© 2007 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York , NY, USA
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