During a fifty-year period, an artistic movement developed in America that was based on Romanticism and inspired by the wild areas in the vicinity of New York's Hudson River. The first native American school of landscape painting included artists Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, and Thomas Doughty. While most of these artists did not think of themselves as belonging to a movement, they did share a sense of wonder at the grandeur of the New World's...

Looks at the life and work of artist Mary Cassatt, in simple text with illustrations, providing information about her childhood, her education, and her accomplishments in art.

Always a strong artistic current in the U.S., Realism has kept pace with the times, first as regionalism and Social Realism-which defined early modernism-and then reemerging as contemporary Photorealism. This program examines: Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930), from The Art Institute of Chicago - Georgia O'Keeffe's The White Calico Flower (1931), from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - Reginald Marsh's Twenty Cent Movie (1931), from...

A picture book biography of the life of American painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Includes a time line of her works as well as related art appreciation activities.

Examines the life and work of the twentieth-century artist Norman Rockwell, who painted familiar everyday scenes that people felt were part of their own lives.

Describes the artistic styles and collaboration between artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, recounting how they met, their collaborative art works and friendship, and their unexpected deaths.

A brief biography of Anna Mary Robertson, the artist who was known as Grandma Moses, describing the inspiration behind and development of her paintings.

Presents the life of the twentieth-century American painter who drew much of her artistic inspiration from nature.

A series of artist biographies for young readers provides hilarious, cartoon-style illustrations to complement the easy-to-read text and full-color reproductions of each master's artwork. Includes primary sources, photos, illustrations, maps and timelines. --Publisher.