Great American Artists for Kids

75 great American masters are introduced through open-ended quality art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography, full color artwork, and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more. Special art options for very young children are included. Many great artists will be familiar names, like Cassatt, Warhol, and O'Keeffe. Other names will be new to some, like Asawa, Smithson, and Magee. Each featured artist has a style that is interesting to children, with a life history that will entertain and inspire them. Sample of some of the artists and companion activities: Andy Warhol - Package Design Bev Doolittle - Camouflage Draw Dale Chihuly - Pool Spheres Maya Lin - Memorial Plaque Jasper Johns - Encaustic Flag Joseph Raffael - Shiny Diptych Roy Lichtenstein - Comic Sounds Thomas Jefferson - Clay Keystone Edward Hopper - Wash Over Grant Wood - Gothic Paste-Up Wolf Kahn - Layered Pastel Jackson Pollock - Great Action Art Mary Cassatt - Back-Draw Monoprint Louis Comfort Tiffany - Bright Windows Hans Hofmann - Energetic Color Blocks Rube Goldberg - Contraption Georgia O'Keeffe - Paint with Distance 2009 Moonbeam Children's Bronze Award 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award

MaryAnn F. Kohl is the award-winning author of Discovering Great Artists, First Art, and Preschool Art. She lives in Bellingham, Washington. Kim Solga is the owner of KidsArt, a mail-order art supplies catalog for teachers and parents, and is the author of Draw!, Make Prints!, and Paint! She lives in Mt. Shasta, California.

Chart of Contents 6-7 Introduction 8-9 Icons 10-12 Chart of Contents 13-32 Early American Art-Chapter 1 14-15 John S. Copley Narrative Drama 1738-1815 Realist, Narrative 16 Thomas Jefferson Clay Keystone Arch 1743-1826 Architect, Classical 17 Gilbert Stuart Painted Crackle Crayon 1755-1828 Realist, Portrait 18-19 Edward Hicks Peaceable Collage 1780-1849 Primitive 20-21 John James Audubon Draw Bugs 'n Critters 1785-1851 Realist, Naturalist 22-23 Frederic Remington Face Casting 1861-1909 Realist 24-25 Mary Cassatt Monoprint Back-Draw 1844-1926 Impressionist, Printmaker 26 Harriet Powers Felt Appliqué 1837-1910 Primitive, Quilter 27 Nathanael Currier Assembly Line Coloring 1813-1888 Illustrator, Printmaker 27 James Ives Assembly Line Coloring 1824-1895 Illustrator, Printmaker 28-29 Louis Comfort Tiffany Bright Light Window 1848-1933 Glass Artist, Art Nouveau 30 James McNeill Whistler Side-View Portrait 1834-1903 Realist 31 John Singer Sargent Great Reproduction 1856-1925 Realist 32 William Sidney Mount Real Painting 1807-1868 Realist 33-52 New American Ideas-Chapter 2 34-35 Edward Hopper Feelings Wash Over 1882-1967 Realist 36-37 Frank Lloyd Wright Bubble Window 1867-1959 Architect, Glass 38 Gutzon Borglum Carved Clay 1867-1941 Realist 39 Grandma Moses Busy Season 1860-1961 Primitive, Folk Art 40 Hans Hofmann Energetic Color Blocks 1880-1966 Abstract Expressionist 41 Charles Demuth Homage Portrait 1883-1935 Precisionist 42-43 George Bellows Sports Figures 1882-1925 Realist, Ashcan School 44-45 Joseph Cornell Box Assemblage 1903-1972 Surrealist, Assemblage 46 Maria Martínez Coil Pottery 1887-1980 Potter, Traditional 47 Elijah Pierce Bas Relief Clay Carving 1892-1984 Folk Art 48-49 Horace Pippin Daily Picture Diary 1888-1946 Primitive 50 Thomas Hart Benton Hero Mural 1889-1975 Regionalist 51 Rube Goldberg Invent A Rube Goldberg 1883-1970 Cartoonist, Illustrator 52 Grant Wood Gothic Paste-Up 1891-1942 Regionalist 53-98 American Art Explodes-Chapter 3 54-55 Norman Rockwell Magazine Cover 1894-1978 Illustrator, Romanticist 56-57 Ansel Adams Friendly Portrait 1902-1984 Photographer, Realist 58 Alexander Calder Rocking Stabile 1898-1976 Abstract 59 Walt Disney Playground Model 1901-1966 Designer, Animator 60-61 Charles Biederman Edgy Relief 1906-2004 Constructionist 62 Mark Rothko Color-Field Panel 1903-1970 Abstract Expressionist 63 Willem de Kooning Intertwining Ribbons 1904-1997 Abstract Expressionist 64-65 Barbara Cooney Scratchboard Illustration 1917-2000 Illustrator 66-67 Buckminster Fuller Tetrahedra Sculpture 1895-1983 Architect, Inventor 68 Jackson Pollock Great Action Art 1912-1956 Abstract Expressionist 69 Saul Steinberg Squiggle Talk 1914-1999 Cartoonist, Illustrator 70-71 Romare Bearden Mixed Montage 1911-1988 Expressionist, Photomontage 72-73 Theodor Seuss Geisel Suessels 1904-1991 Illustrator 74-75 Wolf Kahn Layered Soft Pastel 1927- Abstract Expressionist 76-77 Richard Diebenkorn Tissue Stain 1922-1993 Abstract Expressionist 78 Jasper Johns Encaustic Flag on Wood 1930- Post-Abstract Expressionist 79 Andy Warhol Package Design 1928-1987 Pop Art 80-81 Wayne Thiebaud Yummy Cake Painting 1920- Pop Art 82-83 Roy Lichtenstein Comic Sounds 1923-1997 Pop Art 84-85 Robert Indiana Very Special Stamp 1928- Pop Art 86-87 Ruth Asawa Dough Panel 1926- Expressionist 88 Helen Frankenthaler Soak Stain 1928- Abstract Expressionist 89 Agnes Martin Ruled Stamp Wash 1912-2004 Minimalist 90 Elizabeth Catlett Balsa Block Print 1915- Printmaker 91 Georgia O'Keeffe Painting with Distance 1887-1986 Expressionist 92-93 LeRoy Neiman Action Athlete 1921- Post-Abstract Expressionist 94-95 Claes Oldenburg Super-Size Sculpture 1929- Pop Art 094-95 Coosje van Bruggen Super-Size Sculpture 1942- Pop Art 096-97 Keith Haring Subway Chalk 1958-1990 Pop Art, Graffiti 098 Robert Smithson Spiral Earth Art 1938-1973 Land Art 099-126 American Art Onward-Chapter 4 100-101 Roy De Forest Foil Friend 1930-2007 Funk Art 102 Fritz Scholder Foam Brush Faces 1937-2005 Neo-Expressionist 103 Sandy Skoglund Surreal Tableau Photo 1946- Surrealist, Photography 104-105 Joseph Raffael Mega-Shiny Diptych 1933- Realist, Contemporary 106-107 Faith Ringgold Wish Quilt 1930- Narrative, Fabric 108 Jim Dine Heart Works 1935- Pop Art 109 Frank Stella Concentric Paint 1936- Abstract Minimalist 110-111 Alan Magee Rock On 1947- Realist 112-113 Chuck Close Color Grid 1940- Photorealist 114 Jewell James Sanded Wood Spirits 1953- Wood Carver, Traditional 115 Pepón Osorio Trinket Sculpture 1955- Installation 116 Beverly Buchanan Shack Sculpture 1940- Folk Art, Primitive 117 Maya Lin Memorial Plaque 1959- Architect 118-119 Bev Doolittle Camouflage Mixed Media 1947- Concept painter 120-121 Dale Chihuly Pool Spheres 1941- Installation, Glass 122-123 Kara Walker Free-Hand Silhouette 1969- Installation, Silhouette 124-125 Janet Fish Still Life with Glass 1938- Realist 126 Julian Schnabel Masked Form 1951- Neo-Expressionist 127-142 Resource Guide 128-129 Internet Sites 130-132 Great Art Words 133 Great Art Styles 134-135 Credits & Acknowledgements 136 Artists' Birthdays 137-141 Index