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Information on The Artists of America bringing to your attention
professional & obscure artists, their works and their museums, and interesting genres & styles...
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American Artists A to Z
Thomas Kinkade is a no-talent hack, and these American artists are so much better.
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photo realist John Baeder
posters browse books
official website
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Thomas Hart Benton [1889-1975]
posters
art book
browse books
Ken Burns miniseries [1988] on VHS
Wikipedia
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painter Eric Bowman of Tigard, Oregon
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painter G. Russell Case of Utah
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impressionist Mary Cassatt [1844-1926]
posters
browse books
Wikipedia
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Wm. Merritt Chase [1849-1916]: posters Wikipedia
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Stan Cline: official site
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Bill Cramer of Arizona: official site
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Willem de Kooning [1904-97]
posters
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Richard Diebenkorn [1922-93]
posters
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Douglas R. Diehl of Arizona: official site
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Maynard Dixon [1875-1946] Art Page
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"Maynard Dixon: Art & Spirit" docufilm [indep 2007]
Screened at the Pasadena Museum of California Art 5/2007 and at Santa Fe, NM 9/2008; co-produced, co-written & directed by Jayne McKay; co-written by Daniel Dixon; narrated by Diane Keaton; voice-over by Don Edwards; music by John McEuen video/DVD not yet available full credits at IMDb official movie site |
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Eyvind Earle [1913-2000]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
credits at IMDb
Wikipedia
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"The Complete Graphics of Eyvind Earle and Selected Poems, Drawings & Writings, 1940-1990" [1993]
Books Nippan 13x10¼ hardcover [4/93] out of print/used "The Complete Graphics of Eyvind Earle and Selected Poems, Drawings & Writings, 1991-2000" [2001] 1st Impression Publng 15½x11¾ hardcover [10/2001] for $94.50 |
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"Horizon Bound On A Bicycle: The Autobiography of Eyvind Earle" [1991] self-published 10x8½ hardcover [4/91] out of print/used |
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cover artist Frank Frazetta [1928-2010]
http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Paintings-Drawings-Frank-Frazetta/dp/1599290189/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Frazetta
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illustrator James Montgomery Flagg [1877-1960]
'Uncle Sam wants you' & other posters
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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painter David C. Gallup of California
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Charles Dana Gibson {the 'Gibson Girls'} [1867-1944]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Leon Golub [1922-2004]
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
his wife Nancy Spero [1926-2009]
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Painter-Darkness-Leon-Golub-Times/dp/0670819794/
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R.C. Gorman [1931-2005]
gallery
posters browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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D.J. Hall
2008 exhibit at Palm Springs Art Museum
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impressionist Childe Hassam [1859-1935]
posters
browse books
Artcyclopedia Wikipedia
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Winslow Homer [1836-1919]
posters browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Edward Hopper [1882-1967] Art Page
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painter Timothy Horn of Fairfax, CA
Horn Design official site
Wm. Lester Gallery in California
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watercolorist Peter Hurd [1904-84]
of San Patricio, New Mexico
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painter Wilson Hurley
official site
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realist painter Walt Johnston of Albuquerque, NM
official website
art prints at AllPosters.com
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Raymond Jonson [1891-1982]: Artcyclopedia
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Frida Kahlo [1907-54] Art Page
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Rockwell Kent [1882-1971]
all books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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sculptor Ed Kienholz [1927-94]
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watercolorist Dong Kingman [1911-2000]
http://www.dongkingman.org/
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painters Kerry Kinman & Linda Lee of Dexter, Oregon
official website
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painter John Koch [1909-78] of New York City
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/koch_john.html
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa615.htm
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/3aa/3aa95.htm
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illustrator J.C. Leyendecker [1874-1951]
posters BP's bio page
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
 | "J.C. Leyendecker" biography [2008]
by Laurence S. Cutler & Judy Goffman Cutler {co-founders of the National Museum of American Illustration} Abrams 11x9¾ hardcover [11/2008] for $31.50 |
 | "J.C. Leyendecker: The Great American Illustrator" [indep 2000]
45-minute documentary produced & directed by Amy Stone; narrated by Ossie Davis Kultur Video color DVD [9/2002] for $17.99 credits at IMDb |
Roy Lichtenstein [1923-97]
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Robert A. Maguire [1921-2005]
official website
Wikipedia
 | "Dames, Dolls & Gun Molls: The Art of Robert A. Maguire" [2009] by Jim Silke Dark Horse 12x9 pb [6/2009] for $16.47 |
Western watercolorist William Matthews of Denver, CO
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painter Scott Mattlin of Denver, CO
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painter Derek McCrea of Brevard, FL
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folk artist Grandma Moses [1860-1961]
posters
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986] Art Pages
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watercolorist Phil Paradise [1905-97]
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illustrator Maxfield Parrish [1870-1966]
posters browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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California painter Tony Peters
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Jackson Pollock [1912-56]
posters browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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"Pollock" feature film [Sony Dec 2000] Produced & directed by and starring Ed Harris; co-starring Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower, Jennifer Connelly, Bud Cort, John Heard, Val Kilmer, Robert Knott, David Leary & Amy Madigan; won Oscar for Best Supporting Actress [Harden], Oscar nomination for Best Actor Sony widescreen color DVD [7/2001] for $14.99 Sony color VHS [12/2001] out of stock/used Rounder soundtrack CD by Jeff Beal [2/2001] for $17.98 full credits at IMDb; official movie site |
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illustrator Howard Pyle [1853-1911]
browse books
Wikipedia
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"Pirates, Patriots and Princesses: The Art of Howard Pyle" [2006] Selected & edited by Jeff A. Menges Dover 11x8½ hardcover [6/2006] for $10.37 |
 | "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" [1883 classic] Written & illustrated by Howard Pyle Young Robin of Locksley is attacked by one of Prince John's men and kills him in self defense, which makes Robin an outlaw. Robin is soon surrounded by other outcasts who make sport of the authorities from their hideout in Sherwood Forest. Book Jungle 9x7½ pb [7/2008] for $16.15 |
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"The Book of Pirates" [original 1921] Written & illustrated by Howard Pyle Dover 9¼x6½ pb [10/2000] for $10.62 Pavilion Press pb [6/2004] for $11.95 Spirit of America Bookstore's Pirates of The Americas Page |
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"The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" [1903 YA novel] by Howard Pyle [1853-1911] Signet Classics mass pb [9/2006] for $5.95 Sterling 8x6 hardcover [10/2005] for $9.95 Aladdin 9½x7 hardcover [3/84] for $24.50 Spirit of America Bookstore's King Arthur Page |
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"The Story of The Champions of The Round Table" [1905 YA novel] by Howard Pyle Dover Classics 9¼x6½ pb [6/68] for $10.16 Forgotten Books 9x6 pb [1/2008] for $10.28 BiblioLife 9¼x6½ hardcover [8/2008] for 27.99 |
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"The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions" [1907 YA novel] by Howard Pyle Dover Classics 9¼x6½ pb [4/91] for $11.86 Atheneum 9½x7 hardcover [3/85] out of print/used |
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"The Story of The Grail and The Passing of Arthur" [1910 YA novel] by Howard Pyle Dover Classics 9¼x6½ pb [12/92] for $12.95 Atheneum 9½x7 hardcover [10/85] out of print/used |
marine painter Peter Quidley: posters ArtNet
Quidley & Co. Gallery in Nantucket, MA
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Frederic Remington [1861-1909] Art & Prose Page
Remington art posters at AllPosters.com
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Norman Rockwell [1894-1978]
posters browse books
art book
museum
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Mark Rothko [1903-70]
posters browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Edward Ruscha
posters Beat Museum bio page
website {parked}
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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"Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonnι of the Paintings Volume One, 1958-1970" [2003] Gagosian Gallery/Steidl Publng slipcase hardcover [3/2004] for $128.78 "Volume Two, 1971-1982" [2005] Gagosian Gallery/Steidl Publng slipcase hardcover [8/2005] for $133.03 "Volume Three, 1983-1987" [2007] Gagosian Gallery/Steidl Publng slipcase hardcover [7/2007] for $147.00 "Volume Four, 1988-1992" [2009] 
Gagosian Gallery/Steidl Publng slipcase hardcover [10/2009] for $175.50 |
"Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonnι of Works On Paper" [announced]
to be published by Gagosian Gallery in 2010?
 | "Ed Ruscha" [2003] monograph by Richard D. Marshall
Phaidon Press 11½x9¾ pb [6/2005] out of print/used Phaidon Press 11½x10 hardcover [11/2003] out of print/used |
 | "Ed Ruscha and Photography" [2004] by Sylvia Wolf Whitney Museum/Steidl Publng 11¼x8¼ hardcover [8/2004] out of print/used |
 | "Ed Ruscha: Photographer" [2006] by Margit Rowell Steidl Publng 10½x8¼ hardcover [6/2006] for $25.55 |
 | "Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting" [2010] 
exhibition catalog [DUE Feb 2010] for $40.95 Hayward Gallery, London U.K. exhibition official 'minisite' |
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Charles M. Russell [1864-1926] of Montana
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
Charles M. Russell Museum [est. 1953] in Great Falls, MT
Charley Russell Western Heritage Assn., based in Woodland Park, CO { domain expired }
C.M. Russell art posters at AllPosters.com
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industrial realist painter Joe Santos of Buena Park, CA
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John Singer Sargent [1856-1925]
posters
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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California Luiseρo artist Fritz Scholder [1937-2005] of Arizona
browse books
official website
Wikipedia
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"Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian" art book [2008] by Lowery Stokes Sims, Truman T. Lowe & Paul Chaat Smith Prestel USA 9¼x12¼ hardcover [11/2008] for $42.00 |
sculptor Richard Serra
browse books
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
Serra article in Time Magazine
PBS Artists In The 21st Century page about Richard Serra
 | "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years" [2007] contributors include Kynaston McShine, Lynne Cooke, John Rajchman & Benjamin Buchloh Museum of Modern Art in NYC 10½x10x¼ hardcover [6/2007] for $47.25 MoMA exhibit {June-Sept 2007} website |
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Dr. Seuss {Theodor Geisel 1904-91} Page
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modern cowboy artist Gordon Snidow of Ruidoso, NM
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Gilbert Stuart [1755-1828]
posters
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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painter Robert Townsend
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Alberto Vargas {the 'Varga Girls'} [1896-1982]
posters Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
MAC Vol I + MAC Vol II Esq Vol I + Esq Vol II 1944 color video
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Andy Warhol [1928-87]
"The essence of Warhol's genius was to eliminate the one aspect of a thing without which that thing would, to
conventional ways of thinking, cease to be itself, and then to see what happened." – culture critic Louis Menand
posters Artcyclopedia Wikipedia
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visual artist June Claire Wayne of West Hollywood, CA
official website
Wikipedia
founder Tamarind Institute [est. 1960; moved 1970] at UNM
 | "June Wayne: The Art of Everything - A Catalogue Raisonne, 1936-2006" [2007] by Robert P. Conway Rutgers Univ Press 12¼x12¼ {7.4 pounds!} hardcover [2/2007] for $104.00 |
James McNeil Whistler [1834-1903]
posters Artcyclopedia Wikipedia
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Grant Wood [1891-1942]: posters Artcyclopedia Wikipedia
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Andrew Wyeth [1917-2009]
posters books + bios
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
illustrator N.C. Wyeth [1882-1945]
posters illustrated books
all books + bios
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
Links
Artcyclopedia
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Americans For The Arts [est. 1996]
Distinguished Artists Links at Traditional Fine Arts
American Plains Artists [est. 1982]
Illustrators Biographies pages from Bud Plant
California Water Color website
California Paintings Gallery in Beverly Hills, CA
Graphic Artists Guild - Directory of Illustrators
American Women Artists exhibit program [est. 1990]
ART: American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Century [est. 1992]
Books & Videos
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"The Ferus Gallery: A Place To Begin" [2008] Edited by Kristine McKenna; text by Kristine McKenna & Morgan Neville The Ferus Gallery operated at 736 No. La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles and was the catalyst of modern art in Los Angeles from 1957 to 1966. Exhibitions at Ferus boosted the careers of sculptors Larry Bell & Ed Kienholz, pop artists Roy Lichtenstein & Andy Warhol, and painters John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Moses & Ed Ruscha, and many others. Steidl & Partners 10x10 hardcover with CD [11/2009] for $37.77 MW's Ferus Gallery fansite |
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"The Cool School: The Story of The Ferus Art Gallery" documentary [Arthouse Films 2007] This DVD is included with the book above. Co-produced by Kristine McKenna; directed by Morgan Neville; narrated by Jeff Bridges; interviewees include Frank O. Gehry, Robert Irwin, Edward Ruscha & Dean Stockwell Arts Alliance America widescreen color DVD [7/2008] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb P.B.S. 'Independent Lens' movie site |
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"Paintings of New York, 1800-1950" [2005] by Bruce Weber
97 color images by 79 artists including George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Otto Boetticher, Albertus Del Orient Browere, Elsie Driggs, William Glackens, Francis Guy, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Ernest Lawson, Piet Mondrian, Thomas Moran, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, Ben Shahn, Raphael Soyer, Joseph Stella, George Tooker & Charles Frederic Ulrich Pomegranate Commns 9¼x7½ hardcover [9/2005] for $30.00 |
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Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America" [1987] Edited by Charles Miers, Introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell featured artists include painter-illustrator Aaron Douglas, sculptor Meta Warwick Fuller, painters Palmer Hayden & William H. Johnson, and the photographs of James Van Der Zee Harry N. Abrams 11& frac12x8¾ pb [2/94] for $13.49 Harry N. Abrams 11¾x9 hardcover [3/87] out of print/used |
 | "Against The Odds: The Artists of The Harlem Renaissance" [P.B.S. 1993]
Directed by Amber Edwards; hour-long documentary centered on the Harmon Foundation [1922-67] of Harlem and artists that it supported; info on DVD is scant, but persons featured seem to include W.E.B. Du Bois, John Wesley Hardrick, founder William E. Harmon, Palmer Hayden, Alain Locke, Archibald Motley, Richard Barthι Thompson & Hale Woodruff P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [1/2006] for $19.99 P.B.S. Home Video color VHS [1/2001] out of prodn/used not listed on IMDb |
"American Impressionism" [1974] by Richard J. Boyle
Bulfinch pb [4/82] out of print/used
Little, Brown hardcover [12/74] out of print/used
"The American Impressionists" [1972] by Donelson F. Hoopes
Watson-Guptil mixed [1972+] out of print/many used
Random House hardcover [11/87] out of print/used
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