American Art Online
Videos
a catalogue of online lectures
and conversations with artists, scholars and others
with content focusing on representational art
presented free of charge
San
Antonio American Family Portraits is produced
by produced by television station KLRN9 in San Antonio. Actor and art collector
Cheech Marin speaks on aspects of Chicano Art in a 4-minute video.
The San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art website contains as of 2013 an Interactive
Features section with numerous video interviews including an interactive
online feature, Robert
Bechtle: A Retrospective, which contains videos. In one video the
artist describes how he paints motion and stillness and in another he discusses
still life vs. landscape painting. In another feature, Ansel Adams describes
how he photographed "Moonrise" in a 1980 video
clip from the exhibit Ansel Adams at 100.
The Seattle
Art Museum offers 64 Uploaded
YouTube videos as of 2013.
Seattle
Community Colleges Television is an educational and community television
service from the three Seattle community Colleges. Art
Work is a rare visit to the human side of the art. Individual artists
allow SCCTV cameras, and often an artist-host, in to their working studios
while they're in the middle of building on an idea. ArtsLink
features noted National Public Radio Arts Reporter, Marcie Sillman, who
takes to the field and talks with the visionaries and workhorses that make
the arts accessible. Issues of politics, education, limited funding, censorship;
partnership and innovation are explored each month as we're taken inside
the process of nurturing Seattle Arts.
The Seattle
Channel features City A Go Go with five minute monthly programs
designed to draw people out of their living rooms, into Pacific Northwest
art venues. See Gretchen Batcheller in the December 2004 edition. Nancy
Guppy interviews Seattle artist Anne Baumgartner's new show of paintings
and collages at Cafe Lulu in the October 2004 edition. A Frye Art Museum
photographic exhibit of 19th century American Landscape photographs is in
the September 2004 edition. (Links found expired as
of 8/12/09 audit. Source site may contain this content via a revised URL)
Recorded at the Sheldon Museum of Art,
the Audio/Video
Library enhances the understanding and enjoyment of visitors. Quotes
are from the museum's website. Recordings include:
- Permanent Collection: American Narratives - "This seven-minute videocast introduces American Narratives,
the 2007-2008 installation of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's permanent
collection. This videocast includes artworks from the exhibitions and scenes
from the First Friday opening on August 3, 2007."
- Georgia O'Keeffe's New York, Night - "Sheldon Director Jan Driesbach and Ashley Conaster, a graduate
student in Art History, discuss Georgia O'Keeffe's painting, New York,
Night, now on view in the Sheldon's permanent collection galleries. The
videocast uses still and video images to show aspects and details of the
painting. The videocast lasts about ten minutes and thirty seconds."
The Signilar
Video Collection offers instructional videos in VHS and DVD by master
artists for art students. There are several videos by American artists in
the series. Video clips of the presentations are available online.
Simmons
College Institute for Leadership & Change partnered with the WGBH
Forum Network for:
- Drawing Diversity with Jennifer Camper,
(56 minutes) is a lecture by Jennifer Camper, comic artist and editor of
the new comic anthology Juicy Mother, who brings contributing artists
together to discuss comics as an expressive medium that is not representative
enough in terms of diversity of perspectives. [June 2, 2005]
Paul Smith, afflicted with severe cerebral
palsy, has created many art works through use of a typewriter over a span
of seven decades. The Paul Smith Foundation web site offers six video clips from
a segment that ABC produced about the artist in 1988 and broadcast on the
program Incredible Sunday.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum provides
streaming media programming. Some videos are available through the Museum's
website and others through
a YouTube channel.
Selected videos include:
- To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America, in connection with an exhibition held March 11, 2011 - September
5, 2011: 58:47 video of Alexander Nemerov's talk about artist George Ault
- Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow,
in connection with an exhibition held November 19, 2010 - May 8, 2011:
1:09:30 video of Alexis Rockman's lecture.
- A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection, in connection with an exhibition held September 24, 2010 - January
30, 2011: explanatory video regarding the exhibition plus 59 minute "Shop
Talk" video.
- John Gossage: The Pond, in connection
with an exhibition held August 27, 2010 - January 17, 2011: 51:26 video
of conversation about "The Pond" with Curator Toby Jurovics and
John Gossage.
- Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art
presents a 45 min. video from the Clarice
Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art titled Four
Photographers on Three Wheels: William Eggleston's Tricycle and Before,
October 27, 2010 by Mark Feeney, arts and photography critic for the Boston
Globe and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
- Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art
presents a one hour 15 min. video from the Clarice
Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art titled Looking
at John Singer Sargent, September 15, 2010, by Erica Hirshler,
Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston.
- Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art
presents a one hour 26 min. video from the Clarice
Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art titled Consider
the Difference: American Women Artists from Cassatt to Contemporary,
November 18, 2009 by Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor
of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
- Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art
presents a video from the Clarice
Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art titled Tom
Wesselmann: Pop Artist, or Not, October 22, 2008 by John Wilmerding
is emeritus professor of American art at Princeton University and adjunct
curator in the Princeton University Art Museum.
- Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art
presents a video from the Clarice
Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art titled Fine
Art is Not A Career, November 28, 2007 by James Rosenquist, renowned
for his large-scale paintings that combine images from advertising and
mass media with vibrant color and abstraction.
- Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art
presents a 81 min. video from the Clarice
Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art: David Driskell - An
Introspective
Art Account: Personal Entitlement October 10,
2007. Distinguished scholar and curator David
Driskell is cited as one of the world's leading authorities on the subject
of African American Art. He currently holds the title of Distinguished
University Professor of Art, Emeritus, at the University of Maryland, College
Park. Upon his retirement from the University of Maryland in 1998, The
David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora was founded
to promote his scholarship and service to the University. Driskell is the
recipient of ten honorary doctoral degrees in art, and has authored numerous
books, essays, and catalogues including Narratives of African American
Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection, published in 1998.
In 1997, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton.
A highly regarded artist working in collage and mixed media, Driskell has
exhibited his work in museums and galleries worldwide. Text courtesy Google
Video.
- Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art
presents David Park Curry, William Merritt Chase: A Little Fish Story,
November 8, 2006.
SAAM says: "David Park Curry is a distinguished curator and scholar
of American art. He is the senior curator of decorative arts, American
painting, and sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Over the course
of his career, Curry has served as curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts, the Denver Art Museum, and the Freer Gallery of Art. He has organized
several award-winning exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler's work and
is currently planning an exhibition on Theodore David and the Hayes presidential
china. Curry has authored American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative
Arts from the Warner Collection; Fabergé: The Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts; American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of
Modern Life, 1885-1915; Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited;
Winslow Homer: The Croquet Game; and most recently, James McNeill
Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, which was released in November 2004."
- The virtual exhibition The
White House Collection of American Crafts contains several streaming
videos. The Introduction section features three videos with introductions
by Dr. Elizabeth Braun, Director, SAAM, Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady,
and Michael Monroe, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery. Mr. Monroe conducts
a ten-part tour of the collection with both audio and video elements. Many
objects in the collection are accompanied by audio clips.
- The Monotype Process (8-minutes)
requires the Vivo plug-in.
- At the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, employees
of the U.S. Forest Service demonstrated traditions of their communities.
A Quicktime video shows Angie Bullets, a member of the Kaibab Band of Paiute,
creating a cradleboard. (Link found expired as of
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum guest curator William
Christenberry answers seven questions about his life and work posed by
Web viewers. (Link found expired as of 8/12/09 audit.
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- The Lunder Conservation Center of the Smithsonian presents
22 video
interviews of leading art conservators on their work including remarks
by Dr. Joyce Hill Stoner on her Maxfield Parrish project.
- A Conversation with the Halffs. An
Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection (2006)
The above video listings contain biographical information
courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Until 2006 Smithsonian TV was a central index of
multimedia content and a multimedia hosting service of the Smithsonian Institution
in Washington, DC. Smithsonian TV was streaming programs on its website
until the service was discontinued. Smithsonian TV streamed programs on
its website including:
- On May 6 and 7, 2005 The National Museum of the American
Indian presented the two-day symposium Native Modernism. featuring
the art of George Morrison and Allan Houser. The 45 minute Keynote Address:
Native Modernism, by Mr. Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk), National Museum
of the American Indian was presented online.
- On March 16, 2005 The National Museum of the American
Indian hosted a one hour lecture titled "Two Grey Hills Navajo Tapestry
Traditions," presented by master weavers Barbara Teller Ornelas and
Lynda Teller Pete. The video incuded a movie shown during the lecture.
The citations are preserved above in the event readers
may wish to contact the Smithsonian about means of access.
Stanford
University's Human Experience channel on YouTube presents Gordon
H. Chang, Stanford Professor of History and co-director of the Stanford
Asian American Art Project, discussing the book Asian American Art: A
History, 1850-1970
The State
Museum of Pennsylvania offers a
guided exhibit tour of A Common Canvas or Pennsylvania's Heritage
with editor Michael O'Malley's interview with curator David Lembeck.
The exhibit runs November 23, 2008 through May 17, 2009: Videos include
a Full Presentation (1:50:30 length), Preview (7:50 length), Just the Tour
(1:31:07 length), Short Tour (20:00 length), and Just the Interview (18:01
length).
The Stillman-Lack
Foundation presents two streaming RealMedia videos:
Ary Stillman: 58 Years of Painting, narrated by Frances Stillman, in which she discusses her husband's
paintings as they are shown.This 55-minute video is produced and directed
by Henry L. Thomas.
A Conversation, contains excerpts
of a conversation Sid Lash held with Frances Stillman on Ary Stillman's
paintings for KHOU-TV, Houston, TX., February 20, 1969. This 10-minute video
is produced by Pearlman Productions, Houston,TX
Thanks to a team of conservators from
the Straus
Conservation Center at Harvard University, Edwin Austin Abbey's murals
depicting the Holy Grail are becoming visible to Sir Galahad -- and to the
many visitors to the Boston Public Library -- who will be able to enjoy
the room's refurbished splendor. The Straus Center, which previously completed
a restoration of the Library's celebrated John Singer Sargent murals, has
been working alongside other contractors dedicated to returning the room
to its original glory, from its gold-leaf ceilings to the rich oak paneling
and extravagantly carved marble fireplace to the Italian marble floors.
- 2-minute video
of the conservation effort.
- 3 1/2-minute video
shows how fine art and cutting-edge science meet head-on at the Straus
Center. (Link found expired as of 8/12/09 audit. Source
site may contain this content via a revised URL)
Dr. Mark Sublette, owner of Medicine
Man Gallery in Tucson and Santa Fe, has created a channel
of YouTube online videos on topics relating to Native American baskets,
weavings, pottery and carvings. As of 2011, titles included:
For pottery:
- Historic Acoma Pueblo Pottery Identification
- Historic Zuni Pottery, collectors guide to zuni pottery, how to
date and price Zuni pottery
- How To Identify Antique San Ildefonso Polychrome Pottery
- How To Identify Early Hopi Pottery
- Maria Martinez Black and Red Pottery
- Maria Martinez and Popovi Gunmetal Pottery
- Maria Martinez pottery types of coloration and rarity, not all
Maria pottery is black
- Nampeyo pottery, the master of Hopi pottery
- Pueblo and Maria Martinez Pottery what to look for in condition
For weavings:
- Characteristics of Navajo Blankets
- Five Factors To Value Navajo Rugs and Blankets
- How to identify a Germantown Navajo Blanket
- How to identify a Navajo Chiefs Blanket
- How to identify Navajo Child's Blankets
- How to Identify a Navajo Rug
- How To Value Navajo Rugs and Blankets
- Navajo Blanket Yarn Analysis and Identification
- Navajo Rug vs Blanket
- Navajo weavings: the Spirit Line
- Pricing and Identification: Navajo Saddle Blankets
- Storm Patterns Navajo rugs from the Crystal trading post
- Tips on Navajo Classic Blankets
- Transitional Versus Classic Navajo Blankets who to tell the difference
- Two Grey Hills Navajo weavings: how to identify and their history
For carvings:
- How To Identify Early Hopi and Zuni Kachina Dolls
For baskets:
- How to handle and identify Apache baskets
- How to Identify Pima Baskets vs Apache Baskets
- Pictorial elements and price structure for Native American basketry
- Tips on what to look for in Indian baskets
General:
- How to identify fake antique Native American art
- Native American art and polychrome coloration and how it effects
value
Sullivan Goss, Ltd. maintains a page titled SGTV Videos devoted
to videos concerning American art. Historic artists include Colin Campbell
Cooper Lockwood de Forest, Edward Potthast, and Ray Strong.
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