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The  Arts  of  America

Information on The Arts of America – Fine Art, Cartoonists, Architecture, Photography, Music – bringing
to your attention professional & obscure artists, their works and their museums, and interesting genres & styles...

America's Fine Art    Ÿ    America's Photographers    Ÿ    America's Cartoonists Pages

Classic Cinema    Ÿ    Architecture Pages

Ż   America's Music Pages   Ż
Bluegrass Music Page   Ż   Country / Hillbilly / Folk Page
Rock 'n' Roll Music Page   Ż   Jazz Music Page

America's  Fine  Art

American Masters gallery at AllPosters.com

	"The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction" [1936 classic] by Walter Benjamin "widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time" CreateSpace 36-page 8¼x5½ pb [8/2009] for $9.95 "The Work of Art In The Age of Its Technological Reproducibility & Other Writings On Media" Harvard University Belknap Press 9x6¼ pb [5/2008] for $12.89
	Walter Foster® Art Books official website no entry on Wikipedia browse books
	"After The End of Art: Contemporary Art and The Pale of History" [1996 classic] by Arthur C. Danto based on his 1995 Mellon Lectures On The Fine Arts Princeton Univ Press 8½x6 pb [11/98] for $17.79 Princeton Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [11/96] out of print/used
	"Walter Benjamin and Art" [2005] Edited by Andrew Benjamin Continuum 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $42.94 Continuum 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2005] for $150.00

Art in America Magazine subscribe: 12 issues/year for $29.95 magazine website

American Artist Magazine subscribe: 12 issues/year for $19.95 magazine website

Southwest Art Magazine subscribe: 12 issues/year for $27.00 magazine website

The Artist's Magazine subscribe: 10 issues/year for $19.96 magazine website

Art of The West Magazine subscribe: 6 issues/year for $25.00 magazine website

Thomas Kinkade is a no-talent hack, and these American artists are so much better.

Artists of America Page
Artists A to Z  •  Links  •  Books

New Mexico Artists Page

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Thomas Hart Benton [1889-1975] Art Page

Maynard Dixon [1875-1946] Art Page

R.C. Gorman [1931-2005] Art Page

Edward Hopper [1882-1967] Art Page

Frida Kahlo [1907-54] Art Page

Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986] Art Pages

Frederic Remington [1861-1909] Art Page

Norman Rockwell [1894-1978] Art Pages

Charles M. Russell [1864-1926] Art Pages

Dr. Seuss {Theodor Geisel 1904-91} Page

Alberto Vargas [1896-1982] 'Varga Girls' Art Pages

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
Graphic Artists Guild - Directory of Illustrators
American Women Artists exhibit program [est. 1990]

American Architects & Architecture

main page • general books • architecture film festival • links
Googie architecture • natural materials • Craftsman, Mission & Prairie

Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] Page

America's  Photographers

browse books on photography at Amazon.com
Bettman Archive photos at AllPosters
A History of Photography Timeline
Photographers' Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
New Mexico Photography Field School [est. 1986] in Santa Fe, NM
Texas Photographic Society [est. 1985]
The International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition [Jan 2010 = #19]

Cinematography Page at Magic Lantern

framed photographs from Life Magazine archives

	"Life: The Platinum Anniversary Collection - 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography" [2006] from Life Magazine Life 13½x11 hardcover [10/2006] for $19.77
	"Camera Lucida: Reflections On Photography" [1981] by Roland Barthes [1915-80] Hill & Wang 8x5½ pb [5/82] for $10.40 Hill & Wang hardcover [1981] out of print/used

Ansel Adams [1902-84]
posters • browse books • Amazon A.A. Boutique • PBS bio • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

Ansel Adams Gallery [est. 1902 as Best's Studio] inside Yosemite Park

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Diane Arbus [1923-71]
all books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

"Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" [Pressman/Picturehouse Nov 2006] Directed by Steven Shainberg; screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson, adapted from Patricia Bosworth's book; starring Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr, Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy Clarke & Genevieve McCarthy New Line Home Video widescreen color DVD [5/2007] for $19.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site "Diane Arbus: A Biography" [1984] by Patricia Bosworth W.W. Norton 9½x6¼ pb [2/2005] for $11.53

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Richard Avedon [1923-2004]
posters • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

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Clay Blackmore of Rockville, MD: official website

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Matthew Brady []

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Edward S. Curtis [1868-1952]
Wikipedia

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Michael Disfarmer [1884-1959] of Arkansas
browse books • official website • Disfarmer Project fansite

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Walker Evans [1903-75]
posters • browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

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Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig [1899-1968]
posters • all books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

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Robert Frank [b. 1924]: Wikipedia

"The Americans" [1958] Photographs by Robert Frank; Introduction by Jack Kerouac Scalo Verlag 8¾x9½ hardcover [5/98] for $24.47 Random House pb [9/93] out of print/used

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Helen K. Garber of Venice, CA

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glamour photographer George Hurrell, Sr. [1904-92]
credits at IMDb • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

official George Hurrellwebsite
George Hurrell portfolio site
EJK's George Hurrell fansite
article on Hurrell in July 2007 Atlantic Monthly

"Hurrell's Hollywood Portraits" [1997] by Mark A. Vieira Harry N. Abrams 12¼x9¼ hardcover [2/97] for $26.37

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portrait photographer Yousef Karsh [1908-?]

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Dorothea Lange [1895-1965]
posters • browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

was married to painter Maynard Dixon [1875-1946]

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Earl Leaf
"Marilyn Monroe" pb [8/98] • Earl Leaf archive

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O. Winston Link [1914-2001]
official O. Winston Link website

browse books by O. Winston Link
O. Winston Link photo posters at AllPosters [dot] com

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pioneer Eadweard Muybridge [1830-1904]
posters • browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

	"The Human Figure In Motion" [1955] by Eadweard Muybridge, Edited by R. Taft Dover Publng 11x8 hardcover [6/55] for $26.40 "Animals In Motion" [1957] by Eadweard Muybridge, Edited by Lewis S. Brown Dover Publng 10¾x8½ hardcover [6/57] for $26.37
	"River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge & The Technological Wild West" [2003] by Rebecca Solnit Penguin 8½x5½ pb [3/2004] for $10.20 Viking 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2003] out of print/many used

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Timothy O'Sullivan []

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Laurence Parent of Wimberley, Texas

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U.S. fashion photographer Irving Penn [1917-2009]

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Charles E. Perry Photographics in Belén, New Mexico

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Man Ray {real name Emmanuel Radnitzky} [1890-1976]
browse books (by & about) • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

"American Masters: Man Ray - Prophet of The Avant-Garde" [2000]
Winstar color DVD [2/2000] out of prodn/used

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Arthur Rothstein [1915-85]
browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

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Edward Steichen [1879-1973]
book "Edward Steichen in High fashion"

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Alfred Stieglitz [1864-1946]
posters • browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986]

"American Masters: Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye" [2001]
Winstar color DVD [7/2001] for $21.99

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Jim Stimson of Crowley Lake, CA

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Kristen Westlake of Lake Geneva, WI

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Edward Weston [1886-1958]
posters • browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia

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Bunny Yeager: official website • Wikipedia

America's  Music
Hawaiian Slack Key, Ragtime, Rock 'n' Roll, Classical and Country/Hillbilly/Folk
... as well as artists in many categories
now on a separate Music Page

Bluegrass Music Page
Traditional Jazz & Dixieland Music Page

America's Cartoonists
now on separate pages

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