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Barn Door Video Productions offers a 1 1/2-minute clip from the video The Dublin Art Colony Collection at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery. According to the Barn Door web site: "Dublin New Hampshire was home to a group of painters in the late 1800's, which became known as The Dublin Art Colony. This 11-minute video gives a brief overview of the work of 9 artists that were part of this group. This video is shown in the Keene State College Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery to introduce visitors to this group of painters whose work is featured in the permanent collection at The Thorne." Paul Tuller, owner of Barn Door Video Productions in Dublin, NH and the video's narrator, founded the non-profit organization, The Friends of the Dublin Art Colony.

BBC News offers Diane Arbus exhibition opens at V&A The Victoria and Albert Museum is holding a major exhibition of the work of New York photographer Diane Arbus. Martin Barnes, curator of photography at the V&A Museum, described her contribution to the art of photography.

Behindtheglass.org presents Behind the Glass: The Cincinnati Art Museum with several video clips featuring members of the staff of the Cincinnati Art Museum explaining their positions, including Glenn Markoe, Curator of Classical and Near Eastern Art, Jay Brennan Pattison, Associate Registrar, and Fred Wallace, Associate Conservator.

Blip.tv presents Ron Mueck, filmed during Ron Mueck's residency at The National Gallery, London. The exhibition Ron Mueck was on view at the Brooklyn Museum, November 3, 2006-February 4, 2007. Video courtesy of The National Gallery, London. Another video on sculpture is titled Community Artist: Dan Gerhart which was produced, from start to finish, within a 4-day workshop by new filmmakers at FilmTreks.com.

Boston Athenaeum partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for a series of lectures on American art by David Dearinger, who is Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum. An art historian and curator, he received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a specialty in nineteenth-century American art. Titles include:

Sculptors and Their Patrons at Mount Auburn, 1820-1870 (47 minutes). David Dearinger discusses the American NeoClassic sculptors and their patrons that are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. [March 1, 2007]
Hudson River School of American Landscape Painting, (1 hour, 11 minutes) a general introduction to the famous Hudson River School of American landscape painting. [March 29, 2005]
The Academy and Art in America, (1 hour, 5 minutes) a lecture about the role of the formal art academy in the development of American art and art criticism. [March 24, 2005]
Seen But Not Heard: Images of Children in American Art (1 hour, 27 minutes) uses nineteenth and early twentieth-century American art to illustrate perceptions of childhood. [November 30, 2004]
Marmorean Affair: Neoclassic Sculptors and Boston (1 hour, 6 minutes) reveals the Bostonian obsession with neoclassical sculpture from the 1820s through the 1860s. [May 6, 2004]

and also from the Boston Athenaeum:

Familar Faces: Gilbert Stuart's George & Martha Washington (53 minutes) is an illustrated lecture by Ellen Miles, curator, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian in which she "... discusses Gilbert Stuart's creation in 1796 of his very familiar life portrait of George Washington, together with its companion portrait of Martha Washington, often known as the 'Athenaeum portraits' because they were owned by the Boston Athenaeum for more than 150 years. Ellen Miles describes the relationship between the Washingtons and the artist, the reason for the incomplete composition of the two portraits, and the immediate and lasting success of the portrait of the President, in contrast to the relative obscurity of the portrait of Martha Washington."
The White House: A Pop-Up Book (38 minutes) is a lecture by Chuck Fischer, pop-up book artist. Chuck Fischer is one of the most talented and sought-after artists in America today and is the author and illustrator of the acclaimed Great American Houses and Gardens: A Pop-Up Book and Wallcoverings: Applying the Language of Color and Pattern, both published by Universe. His wallcovering and fabric designs are in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and he has recently been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. [March 22, 2005]
Life Drawing in 19th Century America, (55 minutes) an illustrated lecture by Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Cabot Chair, Museum of Fine Arts, compares Darwin's evolutionary theory to the style of life drawing taught in Boston and New York by William Rimmer (1816-1879). [February 24, 2005]
Banjo-Wielding Women (56 minutes) is a lecture by Leo G. Mazow, curator, American Art, Palmer Museum of Art, who discusses the many female banjoists that appear in myriad American paintings, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements through history. [September 19, 2006]

Boston College partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for:

Religious Imagery in Navajo Textiles (1 hour, 11 minutes) a lecture by Rebecca Valette, professor, french, Boston College, who explains that seemingly abstract Navajo designs are, in fact, religious symbols imbued with specific meanings. [November 7, 2002]

Boston University presented a 3-minute video "Musée des Beaux Arts" on June 14, 2000. Painter Susan Hambleton of New York, NY reads a poem by W. H. Auden in this video. Part of the Favorite Poem Archive recently presented by Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate and Professor of English at Boston University

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See artist-instructor John A. Parks' 3-part plein air demonstration from MyAmericanArtist.com. Part 1, (16:36) This installment focuses on the underpainting. Part 2 (17:08) Parks begins adding color to his painting in this installment. Part 3 (24:02) The final installment of artist-instructor John A. Parks' plein air demonstration. Posted Oct. 22, 2007.

In "Purchase Street, Rye, New York" posted Oct 24, 2007 (1:08) viewers see a plein air demonstration of Nestor Mandalengoitia painting on the streets of Rye, New York..

Also see a Jan 9, 2007 video tribute to Gordon Parks (5:45)

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American Representational Art links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art
Audio Online a catalogue of online streaming audio recordings
Collections of Historic American Art notable private collections
Distinguished Artists a national registry of historic artists
Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History a catalogue of articles and essays that describe the evolution of American art from the inception of the United States to WWII.
Illustrated Audio Online streaming online narrated slide shows
Articles and Essays Online substantive texts published outside of Resource Library
Videos Online a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers
Videos an authoritative guide to videos in VHS and DVD format
Books sampler of general reference books published on paper
Interactive media media in CD-ROM format
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