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1: Early American Art
Narrative drama / John S. Copley
Clay keystone arch / Thomas Jefferson
Painted crackle crayon / Gilbert Stuart
Peaceable collage / Edward Hicks
Draw bugs 'n critters / John James Audubon
Face casting / Frederic Remington
Monoprint back-draw / Mary Cassatt
Felt appliqué / Harriet Powers
Assembly line coloring / Nathanael Currier
Assembly line coloring / James Ives
Bright light window / Louis Comfort Tiffany
Side-view portrait / James McNeill Whistler
Great reproduction / John Singer Sargent
Real painting / William Sidney Mount
2: New American Ideas
Feelings wash over / Edward Hopper
Bubble window / Frank Lloyd Wright
Carved clay / Gutzon Borglum
Busy season / Grandma Moses
Energetic color blocks / Hans Hofmann
Homage portrait / Charles Demuth
Sports figures / George Bellows
Box assemblage / Joseph Cornell
Coil pottery / Maria Martínez
Bas relief clay carving / Elijah Pierce
Daily picture diary / Horace Pippin
Hero mural / Thomas Hart Benton
Invent a Rube Goldberg / Rube Goldberg
Gothic paste-up / Grant Wood
3: American Art Explodes
Magazine cover / Norman Rockwell
Friendly portrait / Ansel Adams
Rocking stabile / Alexander Calder
Playground model / Walt Disney
Edgy relief / Charles Biederman
Color-field panel / Mark Rothko
Intertwining ribbons / Willem de Kooning
Scratchboard illustration / Barbara Cooney
Tetrahedra sculpture / Buckminster Fuller
Great action art / Jackson Pollock
Squiggle talk / Saul Steinberg
Mixed montage / Romare Bearden
Suessels / Theodor Seuss Geisel
Layered soft pastel / Wolf Kahn
Tissue stain / Richard Diebenkorn
Encaustic flag on wood / Jasper Johns
Package design / Andy Warhol
Yummy cake painting / Wayne Thiebaud
Comic sounds / Roy Lichtenstein
Very special stamp / Robert Indiana
Dough panel / Ruth Asawa
Soak stain / Helen Frankenthaler
Ruled stamp wash / Agnes Martin
Balsa block print / Elizabeth Catlett
Painting with distance / Georgia O'Keeffe
Action athlete / LeRoy Neiman
Super-size sculpture / Claes Oldenburg
Super-size sculpture / Coosje van Bruggen
Subway chalk / Keith Haring
Spiral earth art / Robert Smithson


4: American Art Onward
Foil friend / Roy De Forest
Foam brush faces / Fritz Scholder
Surreal tableau photo / Sandy Skoglund
Mega-shiny diptych / Joseph Raffael
Wish quilt / Faith Ringgold
Heart works / Jim Dine
Concentric paint / Frank Stella
Rock on / Alan Magee
Color grid / Chuck Close
Sanded wood spirits / Jewell James
Trinket sculpture / Pepón Osorio
Shack sculpture / Beverly Buchanan
Memorial plaque / Maya Lin
Camouflage mixed media / Bev Doolittle
Pool spheres / Dale Chihuly
Free-hand silhouette / Kara Walker
Still life with glass / Janet Fish
Masked form / Julian Schnabel
Resource guide
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Great art words
Great art styles
Credits & acknowledgements
Artists' birthdays
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