Arizona Art History
with an emphasis on representational art
Introduction
This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "Arizona Art History." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays.
Following the links to Resource Library articles and essays are a listing of museums in the state which have provided materials to Resource Library for this or any other topic.
Listed after Resource Library articles, essays and museums are links to online resources outside the TFAO website. Following these resources is information about offline resources including DVDs, paper-printed books, journals and articles. Our goal is to present complete knowledge relating to this section of Topics in American Art.
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(above: Thomas Moran, Grand
Canyon with Rainbow. 1912. Oil on canvas. de Young Art Museum. Gift
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Gill through the Patrons of Art and Music. 1981.89.
License: Scuttlebutte,
CC BY-SA 4.0 Scuttlebutte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
via Wikimedia Commons*)
Texts contained in Resource Library honoring the American experience through its art by named authors, listed by author name in alphabetical order:
"Important" Artists by Roger Dunbier
Arizona Women Artists Active Before 1945: Painters, Sculptors, Potters, Printmakers, Illustrators, Quilters by Lonnie Pierson Dunbier
"Creating an Iconography for a New State: The Arizona State Capitol Murals," from The Cowboy's Dream: The Mythic Life and Art of Lon Megargee by Betsy Fahlman
Colorful Doors: Tucson's North Meyer Avenue by John Hazeltine
A Century of Arizona Women Artists by Carolyn C. Robbins
Pioneer Women: Arizona History Through Art by Robert Stragnell & Jim Willoughby
Resource Library articles honoring the American experience through its art:
A Backward Glance at Arizona Highways Illustrators
Arizona Highways: Celebrating the Legacy -- Our Land, Our People
Arizona History Through Art: The Last 100 Years
Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists
Beneath A Turquoise Sky: Navajo Painters and Their World
In Celebration: A Century of Arizona Women Artists
The Frontiersmen: Arizona History Through Art
Grand Canyon Grandeur: Early Paintings and Prints from the Hays Collection
Navajo Weavings from the Getzwiller Collection
Shadows on the Mesa - Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond
Stories Woven In: the Navajo Way of Seeing
Timeless Excellence: Honoring Museum of Northern Arizona's Fine Arts Collection
Trees in a Circle: Navajo Weavings of Teec Nos Pos
Walk in Beauty: Hózhó and Navajo Basketry
Rocky Mountain and Southwest Painting and Sculpture: 19th-21st Century
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Musical accompanyment:
Wikipedia, search > Grand Canyon Suite recordings (various)
"The Grand Canyon Suite is a suite for orchestra by Ferde Grofé,
composed between 1929 and 1931. It was initially titled Five Pictures of
the Grand Canyon," source: Wikipedia
See TFAO's letters requesting information on further resources.
Return to Individual States Art History Project
TFAO catalogues:
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 general reference books published on paper
Interactive media media in CD-ROM format
Magazines paper-published magazines and journals
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