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| Artsedge helps artists, teachers, and students find and share information , resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum. The site offers a daily… (The Kennedy Center, supported by Department of Education) | |
| William Blake Archive brings together Blake’s disparate, widely dispersed, and often restricted major visual and artistic works in one searchable website. The archive contains scalable electronic editions… (University of Virginia, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) | |
| The Collection of the National Gallery of Art is the homepage for one of the finest art collections in the world, illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to today. Visitors can… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| The Unfinished Print investigates the creative process and the workings of the artistic imagination as revealed by the unfinished print. Studies include works by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Cassatt, Villon… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| Colorful Impressions: Printmaking Revolution in 18th Century France presents 15 pieces from the period of innovation unleashed by German artist Jakob Christoffel Le Blon’s breakthrough in the use of color in the 1720s. The resulting “printed… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop features works by the master printmaker and by his collaborators, students, and friends. Blackburn (1920 – 2003) changed the course of American art through his graphic work and the… (Library of Congress) | |
| Herblock’s History features 150 cartoons by Herb Block, the editorial cartoonist who chronicled our political history for The Washington Post from 1929 through 2000. Cartoons are organized… (Library of Congress) | |
| Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre focuses on paintings, posters, and other works by Lautrec depicting the decadent spirit and bohemian life of this hilltop working-class district on the outskirts of Paris at the turn… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt’s Prints and Drawings celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European history. A number of Rembrandt’s etchings and… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance showcases Japanese “Ukiyo-e” — pictures of the floating, or sorrowful, world. More than 100 prints, drawings, and books are presented, mostly from 1600-1900. Ukiyo-e was born in Edo… (Library of Congress) | |
| Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings, 1912-1948 presents American prints and drawings relating the condition of working people, American labor and industry, and the experience and achievements of minority groups. The exhibit… (Library of Congress) | |
| Oliphant’s Anthem commemorates the recent acquisition of sixty cartoon drawings, sketchbooks, and illustrations by one of America’s foremost editorial cartoonists. This exhibition also documents… (Library of Congress) | |
| Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom features one of America’s leading political illustrators and cartoonists. Throughout his career — in his native Poland, in Paris where he trained, and in America, the country he… (Library of Congress) | |
| Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg looks at the development of this American artist through a chronological review of his prints and print process. Rauschenberg rose to prominence in the 1950s through his… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| M. C. Escher: Life and Work is an online tour of 24 prints by the Dutch artist Maurits C. Escher (1898-1972). In the 1920s-30s, Escher developed “the regular division of the plane” and advanced the idea of… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| Charles Sheeler: Across Media is the first exhibit to focus on the relationships among photography, film, and painting in the works of Charles Sheeler (1883-1965). This American modernist explored those… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s features a selection of printed images that appeared as posters, albums, books, periodicals, music primers, song sheets, and folding screens. The prints and color lithography offered… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912 offers teaching activities, four political cartoons, and a narrative about reforms proposed by three major presidential candidates in 1912: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft… (National Archives and Records Administration) | |
| Enduring Outrage presents more than 30 cartoons by Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist Herb Block. Published between 1940-1994, the cartoons focus on pollution, government ethics, and other… (Library of Congress) | |
| Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings presents 14 drawings from one of the world’s finest private collections of old master and modern European drawings (1500 – 1889)… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| Origins of European Printmaking features 12 early woodcuts, books, and printed textiles from an exhibit (through November 27, 2005) examining the role of replicated images in late medieval culture. The advent of mass… (National Gallery of Art) | |
| The Drawings of Annibale Carracci explores the first exhibition devoted solely to the powerful and evocative drawings of Annibale Carracci (1560-1609). From his early experiments with naturalism to his late, almost… (National Gallery of Art) | |