Tells about Africans and their descendants have contributed to the visual arts, producing some of America's finest paintings, sculptures, collages, prints, and other works.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761587467_1/African_Americans.html

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Fragonard, Jean-Honoré

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography abou the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0819408.html

Frankenthaler, Helen

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the American painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0819473.html

Gentileschi, Artemisia

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Tuscan painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0820505.html

Giacometti, Alberto

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Swiss sculptor and painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0820730.html

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Short biography about the Italian artist's life and paintings.

http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/study/bio_arcimboldo.html

Hiroshige

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Japanese painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0823795.html

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0825221.html

Jasper Johns

Biography of the abstract expressionist painter born in Augusta, Georgia.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/john/hd_john.htm

Joan Miro (1893-1983)

Short biography for the Spanish painter, ceramist, and sculptor from Hemingway's Paris.

http://records.viu.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/miro.htm

Josef Albers

Biography and works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/albers_bio.html

Josef Albers

Short biography about the artist-teacher with a strong interest in color theory.

http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/study/bio_albers.html

Klimt, Gustav

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Austrian painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0827898.html

Léger, Fernand

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0829281.html

Ma Yüan

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Chinese painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0832368.html

Magritte, René

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography abou the Belgian surrealist painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0831188.html

Milev, Ivan

Representative of Bulgarian Modernism. Biography and a gallery of works.

http://www.ivan-milev.com

Modigliani, Amedeo

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Italian painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0833547.html

Mondrian, Piet

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Dutch painter. Includes bibliography and pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0833698.html

Moore, Henry

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the English sculptor.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0833929.html

Morisot, Berthe

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French impressionist painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0834050.html

Museum of Art Masters

Read about eleven of the greatest artists of all time. Biographies researched and written by the students of Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary.

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/art/arthome.htm

My Hero: Artists

Short student-friendly biographies of more than two dozen painters, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, actors and designers who have shared their talents with the world.

http://myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/directory.asp?dir=artist

Nevelson, Louise

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the American sculptor.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0835341.html

NGA Classroom: Calder Close-Up (1898 - 1976)

Information about the American artist who created many works of art including paintings, jewelry, stage sets, mobiles and stabiles.

http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/counting_on_art/bio_calder.shtm

Paolo Uccello

A short biography of the Renaissance artist prepared by Kaleena and Meghan, Grade 8, Riverdale Junior Secondary School.

http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/paolouccello.html

Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton

Information about the famous painting, a short biography and activity sheet for children.

http://www.gardenofpraise.com/art40.htm

Poussin, Nicolas

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a brief biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0839938.html

Rauschenberg, Robert

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides information a short biography about the American painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0841216.html

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt

Information about the famous painting, a short biography and activity sheet for children.

http://www.gardenofpraise.com/art35.htm

Street to Studio: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Information about the painter and his paintings including gallery and biography. Paint and print out a painting with the virtual studio and see art created by other visitors.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/street-to-studio/

Theodore Lukits

Biography, image galleries, archives and articles for the California impressionist painter.

http://www.theodorelukits.org

Thomas Moran

Consists of an illustrated article on the British landscape artist's life and work.

http://www.ellensplace.net/moran.html

Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides information covering the life and works of the Spanish painter. Includes bibliography and pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0850601.html

Vuillard, Édouard

Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter and lithographer. Includes a pronunciation key.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0851200.html

Wyeth Center at Farnsworth Museum

The Wyeth family has produced three generations of artists and illustrators. Brief biographies are presented here of N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) who illustrated children's books, Andrew Wyeth (born 1917), and Jamie Wyeth (born 1946).

http://www.farnsworthmuseum.org/wyeth/wyeth.html

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