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The Khan Academy provides an online, open access, compilation of teaching videos. A section pertains to art history, with videos grouped by time periods. As of June, 2012, videos covering American representational art history covering specific paintings and their artists include:

Cassatt's Breakfast in Bed (3:06)
Cassatt's The Child's Bath (3:06)
Cassatt's Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge (5:10)
Grant Wood's American Gothic (8:20)
Homer's The Fog Warning (Halibut Fishing) (4:17)
Homer's The Life Line (4:06)
Hopper's Nighthawks (4:48)
Jasper Johns' Flag (4:59)
O'Keeffe's The Lawrence Tree (4:26)
Photography post 1960: Diane Arbus' Boy with a Toy Hand Grenade (4:07)
Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe (5:10)

Alex Katz's website contains the 21:33 video "Alex Katz Five Hours" by Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz from Checkerboard Film Foundation, Inc.

KCET, the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, presents the Life & Times series covering a broad array of happenings and stories about greater Los Angeles. Life & Times includes an arts section with numerous videos and transcripts. Examples follow:

In Robert Graham, Life & Times host Val Zavala profiles and interviews Robert Graham, a renowned figurative sculptor, in a segment dedicated to the artist.
In Pathways, Vicki Curry talks with the curator of an exhibition showing at two museum venues that brings together the work of dozens of L.A. artists for the first time.

Also from KCET's CA video archive / arts and performance section:

Cheech Marin's Chicano Art: Cheech Marin aims to make Chicano art part of the American mainstream. Life & Times, 2005, length: 7:54
Downtown Artists: Artists transform urban decay in downtown Los Angeles into productive loft studios. Mosaic, 2000, length: 10:50
18th Street Arts Center: The 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica celebrates its 15th anniversary. Life & Times, 2004, length: 7:26
Tyrus Wong': 93-Year-Old Kite-Flying Artist Tyrus Wong's current love is heading down to the beach and flying his kites. Life & Times, 2004, length: 8:12
Ed Ruscha: A discussion with Ed Ruscha about his art, hosted by Mary Woronov. The Works, 1993, length: 8:35
Slater Barron's lint Art: Huell Howser meets Slater Barron, an artist who creates portraits using lint. Videologs With Huell Howser, 1988, length: 6:07

KCTS, a PBS affiliate in Seattle, WA, offers streaming video programs. A section is titled Spotlight on the Arts. Segments previously included:

A 2 1/2-minute "Focus of the Arts" segment titled "Al Hirschfeld at the Frye" introducing an exhibition of the work of the famous caricature artist at the Frye Art Museum by David Leopold, the exhibition's curator.
Another Frye curator, Debra Byrne, interpreting the art of Gary Faigen an a 3 1/4 minute segment.
A 3 1/2 minute segment explaining the paintings of figurative artist Mary Larson.

These videos are no longer available in the archives, which as of 2009 extend back about one year from the present time.

From KETC, Living St. Louis Producer Patrick Murphy tours the Kodner Gallery in Clayton during an exhibit featuring the art of the American West. Nearly 200 works of art were on display-including original lithographs of Native Americans, cowboys and the final frontier. [4:53]

Weaving is Life is a 2007 Kennedy Museum of Art exhibit that features the work of multiple generations of Navajo weavers. Combining works drawn from the Kennedy Museum of Art's existing collection of Southwest Native American textiles with newly commissioned weavings, the exhibition includes the work of as many as four generations of weavers from four different families. Weavers represented are Grace Henderson Nez, Mary Henderson Begay, and Gloria Begay from Ganado; Glenabah Hardy, Irene Clark, and Teresa Clark from Crystal; Lillian Taylor, Lillie Taylor, Rosie Taylor, Diane Taylor and Amber and Twyla Gene from the Indian Wells community; and D. Y. Begay from Tselani.

The exhibition incorporates videotaped interviews in which the artists explain how Navajo weaving has functioned as an important carrier of cultural values. Within the online page for "Take a virtual tour of the exhibit" there are four sections devoted to the weavers and their families. Within each section is an Interactive Video Kiosk featuring QuickTime videos. The museum advised TFAO in April, 2007 that the online exhibit will be permanent.

Kentucky Educational Television offers a series of 1/2 hour videos from Mixed, a weekly arts series from 2003 through the present.

Program 611: Fiber artist and photographer Dobree Adams, performers from the Kentucky Opera's Young Artists' Program, and blacksmith and sculptor Erika Strecker.
Program 614: Sculptor Zoé Strecker, Lexington wood sculptor Philip Hultgren, and the music of Louisville's Ochion Jewell Quartet
Program 615: Harrodsburg potter Mike Frasca, another member of the Strecker family of artists; long-time Courier-Journal photographer Bill Luster in his hometown of Glasgow; and the eclectic sounds of Louisville's A.M. Sunday
Program 616: Lexington visual artist Jill Plaisted, a Transylvania University exhibit in honor of late art professor Louise Calvin, and music from the Betweeners.
Program 622: A salute to the 2004 Kentucky Music Hall of Fame inductees; Simpsonville photographer Bruce McElya, who has made seven solo raft trips to document the Grand Canyon from Colorado River level; and Louisville's Heidi Howe, who uses her music to support environmental and other cause
Program 624: Brown-Forman's corporate art collection, Frankfort woodcarver and printmaker Stephanie Potter, and a musical performance by the West Louisville Boys Choir
Program 702: Louisville painter Brenda Wirth, the Speed Art Museum's exhibition of Uwe Ommer's photographs, and music by Hussam Al-Aydi and Baladna.
Program 711: Dolls by artist/sculptor Becky Collings, holiday creations by Louisville-area designers, and vocal ensemble Coterie.
Program 712: Sculptor Tim Lewis, Bybee Pottery, and Louisville-based post-folk band Valley
Program 718: Wood carver LaVon Williams; the African American Theatre Program at the University of Louisville; the "Recovering Is a Beautiful Thing" art exhibit; and music by the Big Maracas, a Latin band from Lexington
Program 723: Husband-and-wife folk artists Ronald and Jessie Cooper from Fleming County, the Leeds Center for the Arts in Winchester, and music by Louisville singer/songwriter Janis Pruitt.
Program 724: Lexington landscape artist Elsie Kay Harris, a visit to the Explorium of Lexington, and a taste of Indian classical music.

KERA's Think is a topic-driven interview program hosted by Krys Boyd covering a wide variety of topics ranging from history, politics, current events, science, technology and emerging trends to food and wine, travel, adventure, and entertainment. As of 2009 the Think video podcasts page no longer archives videos available for download, except very recent episodes. Episodes no longer available include a 26 minute Feb. 15, 2008 video podcast which features Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., who joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the future of energy. Also, in the "Scene" segment of the podcast, Jane Myers, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Amon Carter Museum, joins host Krys Boyd. KERA says: "Fort Worth is known the world over for its beautiful art museums and vibrant art scene. A new exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum pays particular attention to a group of influential artists who helped create the scene. Jane Myers, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Amon Carter, will join us during the Scene segment to preview "Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s" which opens this weekend."

KETC/St. Louis offers a video archive of segments from the series Living St. Louis. A segment titled Ste. Genevieve Art Colony cover in depth this depression-era Missouri art colony. Other segments include the history of the St. Louis Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum, artists Charles Houska, Paul Jackson and Peter Max, the Logos school mural, and a discussion of the artist's model by Andrea Paulette.

KLRU, a PBS affiliate in Austin TX, features Austin NOW video clips including

the art of Austin artist Julie Speed.
East Austin artists who named themselves Sodalitas

KNME offers Promises Kept: WPA Art Treasures of New Mexico. View the video in it's entirety here. [26:32] In small towns across New Mexico are treasures from one of New Mexico's great artistic periods. For years they have been hidden away in schools, post offices and court houses. Promises Kept rediscovers our WPA artistic heritage by interviewing some of the remaining WPA artists such as Pablita Velarde and by looking closely at the artists and artworks themselves. The goal: to form a new respect, appreciation and to help preserve this treasures for generations to come. Funded in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Office of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts and the National New Deal Art Restoration Task Force. Orginally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME. As an alternate view Part 1 [07:20], Part 2 [10:25] and Part 3 [07:55] separately.

Steve Cotham on East Tennessee Artists is a lecture (53:50) at the Knoxville Museum of Art, released April 6, 2011. The museum says "Steve Cotham is the manager of the McClung Historical Collection located in the East Tennessee History Center in downtown Knoxville. Cotham holds three academic degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, including advanced degrees in history and library science." Another video titled Steve Cotham: Dine and Discover (31:10) was released November 13, 2008 in connection with the exhibition Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee, which is according to the museum "... a new permanent installation celebrating the art and artists of Knoxville and the surrounding region. The fascinating and complex story of our area's rich artistic heritage and its connections to the larger currents of American art are largely unknown, and certainly under appreciated...the first permanent installation devoted to the creative achievements of important artists active since the late 19th century whose lives and legacies are closely linked to East Tennessee." Other videos are available for Higher Ground including the Introduction The videos are available on the Knoxville Museum of Art website.page for podcasts and videos on bliptv.

Koehnline Museum of Art maintains a Web page named Oakton Art Video Archives which lists videos produced in connection with exhibitions at the museum. One of the archived videos is "Convergence: Jewish and African American Artists in Depression Era Chicago" [6:48]. Other video include "Agustin Portillo: America" [10:08], "A Gift to Biro-Bidjan, Chicago, 1937: From Despair to New Hope" [10:33] and "Seymour Rosofsky: Fresh Glance" [8:18], The videos are produced by Oakton's Television & Production Services. These videos are also available for viewing locally via Instructional Media Services of Oakton Community College.

KQED / San Francisco offers a variety of streaming video relating to "arts & literature" in the Bay Area.

KQED's Gallery Crawl visits a number of Bay Area art galleries each month to "check out what's up in the local art scene." The archive of videos contains episodes from 2005 to the present. For instance:

The October 2005 episode (12-minutes, 13-seconds) of Gallery Crawl features Will Wilson's representational oil paintings at John Pence Gallery along with other galleries and artists. Viewers may subscribe to a RSS Feed to receive Gallery Crawl each month.
The September 2005 episode (14-minutes, 52-seconds) features the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, which hosts an annual exhibition, the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts Award Show, sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation. A 5-minute, 22 second segment covers the 2005 show.
The July 2005 episode (16-minutes, 32-seconds) visits several galleries including a solo exhibition by photographer Elliott Erwit at Robert Koch Gallery, plus outsider art at Jack Fischer Gallery and at Fraenkel Gallery.

The extensive Arts Archive page includes these videos:

In a 10-minute, 27-second video from a September 12, 2005 episode titled "Paint x 3," Spark watches Robert Bechtle at work rendering one of his favorite subjects -- his Potrero Hill neighborhood -- and talking about his motivations and images as he prepares for a retrospective exhibit of his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (February 12 through June 5, 2005).
In another 8-minute, 50-second video from September 12, 2005, Spark visits Oakland painter Hung Liu in her studio as she works on a series of canvases for an exhibition in New York in May 2005.
In a 10-minute video on the life and art of Viola Frey, who passed away in 2004, from the February 18, 2004 Spark show "From Life," viewers watch Frey working in her studio on a series of colossal clay figures for a show in New York. Also in the February 18 show, "photographer Olivier Laude photographs his friends and acquaintances cast as characters in elaborately conceived tableaux that spoof ethnographic portraits. Using an unholy mix of beans, noodles and yarn, Jason Mecier creates mosaic portraits of friends and celebs that are shockingly realistic and endlessly entertaining."
Another Spark video titled The Fine Art of Collecting, which first aired on broadcast television January 28, 2004. "...shows that collecting can be an art form unto itself, when we meet collectors who have turned a casual interest into a lifelong passion. Spend the day with John Held Jr., who saved every scrap of mail art he received, day after day for almost 30 years, as he continues to build his collection, one stamp at a time."
In the March 3, 2004 show, "Works on Paper," viewers "...explore a new form of printmaking in the studio of Enrique Chagoya as he takes aim at establishment religion and politics with humor that both provokes and amuses."
The September 3, 2003 "Remembrance " show features Ann Chamberlain, who "... works wonders transforming intimidating public spaces into welcoming, inspirational environments to evoke personal stories and recollections of the past."

KUED-TV in Salt lake City, UT, produces "Utah Now" a 30-minute magazine-style series, which KUED says "thoughtfully considers issues, events and people that are affecting life and creating dialogue in Utah." The February 23, 2007 show features interviews with Brian Kershisnik and his wife Suzanne, David Dee, director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and David Ericson, owner of David Ericson's Fine Art. Utah artist Brian Kershisnik's work has been described as a journey of exploration. From his vantage point in rural Utah, Kershisnik finds forms for the elements of the life he sees around him.

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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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