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All About Art - Famous Artists
Includes some well known artist with short biographies and a list of famous paintings for each.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001159/famart.htm

Encarta: African American Artists
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

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
Short biography about the artist-teacher with a strong interest in color theory.
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/study/bio_albers.html

Josef Albers
Biography and works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/albers_bio.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

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/

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

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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