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Museums, Images, & Masks

Arizona Museums

Arizona Museum for Youth
http://www.ci.mesa.az.us/amfy
The museum has just moved to a new facility. The website includes general information, the Upcoming Exhibit, and Workshops. For Elementary School teachers

ASU Art Museum
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu
View images from the collection as well as find information about the museum, the educational program, and links to other art related sites.
Redesigned in 2002. For teachers

Durand Painting
Attributed to: Asher B. Durand. The Hunter. Oil on Canvas, 1846

Center for Creative Photography
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/ccphome.html
this museum and research center is devoted to photography as an art form. The site includes: Exhibitions, Collections and Archives, Library, Education. The calendar is on the first page.
Updated August 2003. For teachers

Heard Museum
http://www.heard.org
"The mission and philosophy of the Heard today is to educate the public about the heritage and the living cultures and arts of Native peoples, with an emphasis on the peoples of the Southwest." The site is newly redesigned. In addition to the museum information the link to Education and Research has Curriculum materials that can be purchased or downloaded. The unit on Rain for Elementary School children is excellent.

Kept current. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers

Pottery
Turtle. Helen Cordero

The Museum of Northern Arizona
http://www.musnaz.org
a private, non-profit museum devoted to preserving and interpreting the Colorado Plateau including Native American artifacts.

Phoenix Art Museum
http://www.phxart.org
site includes: General Information, Exhibitions and Events, the Collection (which has an increasing number of images), Classes and Talks.

The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
http://www.scottsdalearts.org/smoca/salender.asp
Also includes information about the Scottsdale Center for the Arts and Public Art

The University of Arizona Museum of Art
http://artmuseum.arizona.edu
Information about the museum, its collections and exhibitions, and educational program.

Roberts Painting
Jack Roberts. Red Rock Crossing.
E-mail: jackroberts@sedona.net

National Museums

We’ve included the following museums because their collections are exceptional and/or they have very special sections for young patrons.

The British Museum
http://www.british-museum.ac.uk/

The Detroit Institute of Arts
http://www.diamondial.org/
You can search the collection by category.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/
The Smithsonian’s international modern and contemporary art museum

The Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/title.htm

Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://metmuseum.org

MOMA - the Museum of Modern Art
http://moma.org

The National Gallery
http://nga.gov

National Museum of African Art,Smithsonian
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/NMAFAgen.htm

Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian
http://www.asia.si.edu/

Museum Web Page

Virtual Library Museum Pages
http://www.icom.org/vlmp
An exhaustive directory of on-line museums organized by country with listings from Africa through the USA and The Rest of the World! Museums that have large collections or are recommended are starred.

Images

AICT - Art Images for College Teaching
http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html
a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community maintained by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Includes: Ancient, Medieval Era, Renaissance & Baroque and Non-Western. Slides are available.
For teachers

Allposters.com
http://www.allposters.com
A commercial site with thumbnail images that can be enlarged of artwork available as posters. Fine Art Prints plus photography. Catalogued by period and style. Images surrounded with sales information, but the collection is large.

Ozanne Painting
Richard Ozanne. Garden of Life #18.
Tel:: 800-408-0943

Artcyclopedia
http://artcyclopedia.com
a very helpful site that can be searched by:

  • Artists by Name
  • Artworks by Title
  • Art Museums by Name/Place
  • Movement (e.g. Pop Art, Impressionism)
  • Nationality

All Women Artists
For teachers

ArtServe
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
from the Australian National University. Has some 185,000 images mainly from the Mediterranean Basin (but increasingly good on Kyoto, Nara, and East Asia). Sorted by:

  • Countries, 31 of them, excluding North and South America, China and most of Africa – but California is there!
  • Subject categories, 21 categories running from arms & armour through painting to treasuries from churches
  • Surveys
  • Prints
  • Museums and galleries
  • Architecture and sources
  • Medieval materials
  • Art, architecture, museums arranged by country
  • Sculpture
  • Mediaeval materials
  • Embellishments
  • Film: Riefenstahl's
  • Student projects
  • Miscellaneous

Kept current. For teachers

Artstor
http://www.artstor.org
A source of images that will be licensed to not-for-profit U.S. institutions. Individuals within the institutions will then be able to use the images. In the testing phase. From the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Worth watching to see if you’ll be able to use access the thousands of images that are promised.

Mark Harden's Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/core.html
maintained by Mark Harden, the editor at Glyphs, and supported by contributions. A remarkable site that catalogues images online.

  • The Artchive includes essays and a list of Images on the Web for some 250 artists; works also organized by school (e.g. abstract expressionism), medium (sculptors), period (e.g. ancient art). He's beaten the copyright problem by exhibiting posters.
  • Juxtapositions offers virtual tours and includes essays on selected artists, periods, etc.
  • Theory & Criticism has critical essays with links to the images
  • Art Links includes: Museums (links to a limited selection), Artists (links to pages devoted to an artist), Resources (links to virtual tours)
  • Gallery includes images and information about: Goya, Rembrandt, Beckman, The First Impressionist Exhibition 1874, Sculpture Garden, 1925 The Year in Review, Recent Acquisitions.
  • Art CD Rom Reviews

Kept current. For teachers and, with guidance, students

 




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