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| Guide to web sites devoted to the work of old masters or historically important artists. Click on names of artists to visit respective web sites. |
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| American |
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| Mark
Rothko (1903 - 1970) |
The National Gallery of Art, Washington - Traces Rothko's work from his early years, through his classic abstract
years up to and including his later work.
Web Address: www.nga.gov/feature/rothko |
| John
Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) |
John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery - The detailed and thorough work of a Sargent enthusiast. Sargent's career
is outlined year by year with corresponding clickable thumbnail images of
the paintings he did that year. There is also a forum for fellow devotees,
plus numerous resources including a catalogue of works and useful links.
Web Address: www.jssgallery.org |
| Andy
Warhol (1928 - 1987) |
The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh - Features extensive permanent collections of art and archives on one of
the most influential American artists of the twentieth century.
Web Address: www.warhol.org |
| James
Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903) |
Whistler Centenary Glasgow 2003 - A range of events is being held in Glasgow in 2003 to mark the centenary
of the death of the American-born painter. Home to one of the finest collections
of his work, Whistler's Estate is held by the University of Glasgow and
housed in it's Hunterian Art Gallery and University Library, which there
are links to from this web site.
Web Address: www.whistler2003.com |
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| Austrian |
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| Gustav
Klimt (1862 - 1918) |
Expo-Shop web site - Virtual
museum has over 100 items of Klimt's art work on display, linked to related
merchandising. Also biography, and e-cards.
Web Address: www.expo-klimt.com |
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| British |
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| Francis
Bacon (1909 - 1992) |
Web pages devoted to self-taught British
painter whose paintings are characterised by expressions of horror. Site
includes biography, photographs, artwork and resources including recommended
books, public collections containing Bacon's work, and links to other sites.
Web Address: www.francis-bacon.cx |
| William
Blake (1757 - 1827) |
The William Blake Archive - Web
site dedicated to the poet, painter and engraver William Blake, including
works by both Blake and his circle and resources for further research.
Web Address: www.blakearchive.org |
| Richard
Parkes Bonington (1802 - 1828) |
Pages from The Wallace Collection - Biography of the Nottingham-born British landscape painter plus over
30 watercolours and oils in the collection.
Web Address: www.the-wallace-collection.org.uk/c/w_a/p_w_d/b/a/bonington.htm |
| John
Constable (1776 - 1837) |
Victoria & Albert Museum - Details of The Constable Collection, the largest collection of work in
existence by one of the greatest British landscape painters. Works include
pencil-sketches, watercolours and large-scale oil-paintings.
Web Address: www.vam.ac.uk |
| John
Sell Cotman (1782 - 1842) |
British Museum - Illustrated
factsheet on British watercolourist John Sell Cotman from the British Museum
web site.
Web Address: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/pd/factsheets/jscotman.html |
| Thomas
Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) |
Gainsborough's House - Museum
and art gallery at the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk
showing more of Gainsborough's work than any other museum in the world.
Web site also includes chronology and general info on gallery including
print workshops, children's education and changing exhibits.
Web Address: www.gainsborough.org |
| Barbara
Hepworth (1903 - 1975) |
Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture
Garden - Information on abstract sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio
and garden in St Ives, Cornwall, which Hepworth asked in her will be permanently
open to the public, with a group of her sculptures placed as she wished.
Run by the Tate.
Web Address: www.tate.org.uk/stives/hepworth.htm |
| David
Hockney (b1937) |
Salts Mill, Saltaire, Yorkshire - Galleries dedicated to the work of the Bradford-born British pop artist.
Web site includes biography and details of works.
Web Address: www.saltsmill.org.uk |
| William
Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910) |
The Light Of The World - Comprehensive
site focussing on William Holman Hunt, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite art
movement, including over 200 paintings, watercolours and sketches, plus
biographies of Hunt and his contemporaries.
Web Address: www.williamholmanhunt.com |
| L
S Lowry (1887 - 1976) |
The Lowry - Theatres, galleries,
shops, restaurants and bars located in the heart of Manchester's waterways
on Salford Quays, The Lowry provides a home for the world's largest public
collection of L S Lowry's work totalling over 300 paintings and drawings.
Web Address: www.thelowry.com |
| Henry
Moore (1898 - 1986) |
The Henry Moore Foundation -
A registered charity, established 'to advance the education of the public
by the promotion of their appreciation of the fine arts and in particular
the work of Henry Moore'. Three areas of the web site: 1) Henry Moore Collections
& Exhibitions - the display and study of Moore's work, based in Perry
Green, Hertfordshire. 2) Henry Moore Institute - Centre for the study of
sculpture, based in Leeds. 3) Contemporary Projects - Collaborations with
artists and galleries to show new and ambitious work.
Web Address: www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk |
| William
Morris (1834 - 1896) |
The William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow,
London - Internationally important collection illustrating William Morris's
life, work and influence, with permanent displays of printed, woven and
embroidered fabrics, rugs, carpets, wallpapers, furniture, stained glass
and painted tiles designed by Morris and others.
Web Address: www.walthamforest.gov.uk/william-morris |
| John
Piper (1903 - 1992) |
Tribute site to John Piper features
alongside biography and gallery, a complete online reproduction of the book
on Piper by John Betjeman from the 1940's, with text and illustrations.
Web Address: www.johnpiper.fsnet.co.uk |
| John Piper (1903 - 1992) - The Art of John Piper |
A personal site devoted to the art of the 20th century's most versatile British artist. Contains brief history, video downloads, & galleries containing 100's of images of his art.
Web Address: www.johnpiper.org.uk |
| Bridget
Riley (b1931) |
Voices From The Archive - Archived
BBC interview with British Op artist Bridget Riley from 1988 in which she
discusses the influence of the North Cornish coast, why she became a painter,
why she turned to abstraction, learning from Seurat, and the difference
between figurative and abstract art.
Web Address: www.bbc.co.uk/voices/pages/profilepages/rileyb1.shtml |
| Dante
Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882) |
Hypermedia Research Archive: The
Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - "...
designed to facilitate the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the
painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John
Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original artistic force
in the second half of the nineteenth century in Great Britain."
Web Address: jefferson.village.virginia.edu:2020 |
| Stanley
Spencer (1891 - 1959) |
The Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham - The only gallery in Britain devoted exclusively to an artist in the village
where he was born and spent most of his working life. Web site includes
gallery, biography, photos and info on Spencer's Cookham.
Web Address: www.stanleyspencer.org |
| Joseph
Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) |
The Tate Gallery: Turner Collection - Tate has the largest collection of works by J M W Turner in the world.
Web site allows exploration of the Turner collection in various ways including
a geographic search, subject search and type of work search, plus an overview
of Turner's work in a highlights section.
Web Address: www.tate.org.uk/collections/collection_search_simple.jsp?group=turner |
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| Dutch |
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| Vincent
van Gogh (1853 - 1890) |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam -
Van Gogh's Life & Times, News and a virtual tour. Van Gogh's work is
organised chronologically into five periods, The Netherlands, Paris, Arles,
Saint-Rémy, Auvers-sur-Oise. Paintings can also be viewed alphabetically
by title.
Web Address: www.vangoghmuseum.nl |
| Piet
Mondrian (1872 - 1944) |
Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic
Paintings - Includes 23-page career biography of the Dutch abstract
painter, plus examples of work and photos.
Web Address: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/mondrian/career |
| Rembrandt
Harmensz van Rijn (1606 - 1669) |
Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam - Reconstructed 17th Century house where Rembrandt lived and worked. Exhibition
rooms with a large collection of Rembrandt prints.
Web Address: www.rembrandthuis.nl |
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| French |
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| Pierre
Bonnard (1867 - 1947) |
Museum of Modern Art, New York - Pages set up to accompany 1998 Bonnard exhibition includes information
on Bonnard's life and categorised work e.g. Still Life, Bathers, Interiors.
Web Address: www.moma.org/exhibitions/bonnard |
| Paul
Cezanne (1839 - 1906) |
Atelier Cezanne - Cezanne's studio
in Aix-en-Provence. Biography of Cezanne, history of the studios, paintings
and tours in the artists' footsteps.
Web Address: www.atelier-cezanne.com |
| Gustave
Courbet (1819 - 1877) |
Part of the BBC's Painting The Weather Series, curated by the National Gallery - Brief biographical details
of the revolutionary French painter who encouraged a naturalistic approach
to painting with four pieces of artwork.
Web Address: www.bbc.co.uk/paintingtheweather/csv/artist/courbet.shtml |
| Edgar
Degas (1834 - 1917) |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art web pages - Works of art, chronology of Degas' life, his artistic style,
Degas and Impressionism, and a social and historical context.
Web Address: www.metmuseum.org/explore/degas/html/index.html |
| Max
Ernst (1891 - 1976) |
Peggy Guggenheim Collection biography
of the German-born naturalised French painter Max Ernst, who introduced
Dada to Cologne and later became a leading Surrealist, with links to paintings
in their collection.
Web Address: www.guggenheim-venice.it/english/04_Artists/Ernst.htm |
| Paul
Gauguin (1848 - 1903) |
Expo-Shop web site - Virtual
museum has extensive collection of Gauguin's art work, linked to related
merchandising. Also biography and e-cards.
Web Address: www.expo-gauguin.com |
| Edouard
Manet (1832 - 1883) |
Edouard Manet's Studio - Extensive
gallery listed in chronological order, Manet's letters, a chronology of
his life and more.
Web Address: www.mystudios.com/manet/manet.html |
| Henri
Matisse (1869 - 1954) |
All About Matisse - Site dedicated
to French artist Henri Émile Benoît Matisse, leader of the
Fauve group. Includes biography, comprehensive gallery section and Matisse
Shop.
Web Address: matisse.hypermart.net |
| Claude
Monet (1840 - 1926) |
Musée Marmottan Monet - Museum with the world's largest collection of works by Claude Monet, housed
in a specially built exhibition hall. Collection offers major works from
the various stages of Monet's career from the Le Havre caricatures through
to the Giverny waterlilies, and including the picture that gave impressionism
its name: Impression: Sunrise.
Web Address: www.marmottan.com |
| Pierre-Auguste
Renoir (1841 - 1919) |
Auguste Renoir Gallery - art.com
website with biography of the leading Impressionist, an extensive gallery
with prints to buy, and a suggested reading list.
Web Address: www.renoir.org.yu |
| Auguste
Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
"The only official site on Rodin
admitted by the musée Rodin of Paris." The Rodin Museum
possesses about six thousand and six hundred sculptures, plus sketches and
paintings. The web site also includes general information on the museum,
garden and his life and work.
Web Address: www.musee-rodin.fr |
| Edouard
Vuillard (1868 - 1940) |
National Gallery of Art, Washington
DC: Place Vintimille - Exploration of Vuillard's painting of Place
Vintimille, plus portfolio section of around 15 paintings in the National
Gallery collection, a biography, and essays 'The Folding Screen' on the
influence of Japanese art, and 'Vuillard and Decoration'..
Web Address: www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/vuillard |
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| Italian |
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| Giorgio
de Chirico (1888 - 1978) |
Metaphysical Art: An "other"
modernity - Essay on the Metaphysical school which de Chirico founded
before briefly joining the Surrealists, with gallery and shop.
Web Address: www.dechirico.de/html/giorgio_de_chirico__e.html |
| Amedeo
Modigliani (1884 - 1920) |
The Official Site of the Archives
Légales Amedeo Modigliani - Includes the life and works of Amedeo
Modigliani, one of 20th century Italy's greatest artists. Plus other services
including a bookstore.
Web Address: www.modigliani-amedeo.com |
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| Norwegian |
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| Edvard
Munch (1863 - 1944) |
The Dance Of Life - Thorough
and attractive private web site dedicated to Edvard Munch, including biography,
essays, photos, resources and an impressive gallery sub-divided into sections
such as 'Love', 'Anxiety' and 'Death'.
Web Address: www.edvard-munch.com |
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| Russian |
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| Marc
Chagall (1887 - 1985) |
Site specialising in buying and selling
artwork by Marc Chagall. Many other resources include worldwide forum, biography,
and information on where to see pieces by Surrealism-aniticipator Marc Chagall.
Web Address: www.marc-chagall.net |
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| Spanish |
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| Joan
Miró (1893 - 1983) |
The web site of The Joan Miró
Foundation, Barcelona - The foundation collection of Miró's artwork
consists of 11,000 pieces, including paintings, sculptures, textiles, ceramics,
the almost complete graphic works, and around 8,000 drawings, most of which
were donated to the Foundation by Miró himself.
Web Address: www.bcn.fjmiro.es |
| Pablo
Picasso (1881 - 1973) |
Official website for the most famous
artist of the 20th century, including his life, work, news and photographs.
Web Address: www.picasso.fr |
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| Swiss |
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| Alberto
Giacometti (1901 - 1966) |
Web site dedicated to the Swiss sculptor,
painter and draughtsman whose most memorable works are emanciated, elongated
figures, including biographical details, works, photos, texts and shop.
Web Address: http://www.alberto-giacometti.ch |
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