Chronology of Articles and Essays
January, 2002
Excellent art is food for the soul.
Enjoy art's many flavors
at a museum near you.
(above: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Christ and His Mother Studying the Scriptures, 1909, oil on canvas, 48.7 x 40 inches, Dallas Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
In Search of the Dream: The American West / The West in Popular Culture (1/31/02)
Roy C. Nuse (1885-1975) (1/30/02)
Bernard Langlais -- The New York Years: 1956-1966; essay by Aprile Gallant (1/28/02)
Hubert Shuptrine; essay by Martha R. Severens (1/28/02)
Bernard Langlais: Independent Spirit (1/24/02)
Graham Nickson: Dual Natures; article by Michael Zakian (1/23/02)
Visions of Nature: The World of Walter Anderson (1/23/02)
Asa Cheffetz, 1896-1965, Cape Lighthouse (Mass.), around 1950; essay by Heather Haskell (1/23/02)
William Thon (1906-2000); essay by Susan C. Larsen (1/22/02)
Margaret Ann Skove Named Director of Columbia Museum of Art (1/21/02)
Edward Lamson Henry, 1841-1919 The Peddler, 1879; essay by William T. Oedel (1/14/02)
Window on the West: Views from the American Frontier: The Phelan Collection (1/14/02)
Farm Stories: Studies of a Disappearing Landscape; catalogue essay excerpt (1/14/02)
Chapter 5: After the Civil War, from the book Art in Florida: 1564-1945, by Maybelle Mann (1/11/02)
The Early Portraits of Lincoln; article by Louis A. Warren (1/9/02)
McKendree Robbins Long: Picture Painter of the Apocalypse (1/8/02)
Sante Graziani, born 1920, Mural, 1943-1347; essay by Mary E. Kinnecome (1/3/02)
Model/Artist Terry St John: Figurative Drawings 1961-2001; with essay by Terry St John (1/3/02)
Charles Rice, article by Ann Erskine (1/3/02)
Moving Mountains - Alyce Frank and Barbara Zaring, with notes by David L. Witt (1/2/02)
(above: Edward Mitchell Bannister, Apple Trees in a Meadow, c. 1890, High Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
See TFAO's Museums Explained to learn about the "inner workings" of art museums and the functions of staff members. In the exhibitions section find out how to get the most out of a museum visit. See definitions for a glossary of museum-related words used in articles. Also see notes about our 2011 editing project.
To help you plan visits to institutions exhibiting American art when traveling see Sources of Articles Indexed by State within the United States.
Permissions from sources
When Resource Library published over time more than one article concerning an institution, there was created as an additional resource for readers a sub-index page containing links to each Resource Library article or essay concerning that institution, plus available information on its location and other descriptive information. .
Unless specifically described in editor's notes or headers within Resource Library or Resource Library Magazine pages containing articles and essays by named authors, such materials were published in 1997 through 2016 by either permission of a named institutional source within the Art Museum, Gallery and Art Center index, an author within the Author Study and Index, or a non-institutional source. In some cases, both the source and author provided permissions.
Permissions, in most instances, were provided by institutional sources specifically identified within the article or essay pages. As noted above, when Resource Library or Resource Library Magazine published over time more than one article or essay concerning an institution, it created, as an additional resource for readers, a sub-index page containing links to each Resource Library or Resource Library Magazine article or essay concerning that institution, plus available information on its location and other descriptive information. A typical notation at the end of an article or essay might be "Read more information, articles and essays concerning this institutional source by visiting the sub-index page for the (named institution) in Resource Library (or Resource Library Magazine in instances of publication by Traditional Fine Arts Organization's predecessor)" or similar wording.
An invitation to museums
TFAO advocates for museums to permanently make available materials about special exhibitions on their websites. Most museum websites have a "past exhibitions" section. Often, when information about an exhibition is first posted, a permanent URL is created that is carried forward in website sections for future, current and past exhibitions. A common format is: https//museumname.org/exhibitions/name of exhibit.
A wide variety of materials are posted by museums for an individual exhibition. Contents on a page for an exhibition may include narrative paragraphs about the exhibition, photos of art objects, plus links to: a press release for the exhibition, newspaper and magazine articles, promotional PSA videos, lecture videos, gallery guides, brochures and checklists.
Once a museum has decided upon a URL format for presenting online exhibition information, it is important that the format be maintained permanently. This is to prevent dead links in articles, research papers and other materials published by outside persons and organizations.
An effect of Covid temporary museum closures in 2020-21was that scores of art museums greatly enhanced the quality and quantity of online exhibit presentations.
TFAO catalogues providing useful resources
American Representational Art - links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art
Distinguished Artists - a national registry of historic artists
Videos Online - a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers
Audio Online - a catalogue of online streaming audio recordings
Collections of Historic American Art - notable private collections
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.
Articles and Essays Online - substantive texts published outside of Resource Library
Videos - an authoritative guide to videos in VHS and DVD format
Illustrated Audio Online - streaming online narrated slide shows
Books - general reference books published on paper
Magazines - paper-published magazines and journals
Interactive media - CD-ROM format
How to find content on our site using search engines
Conduct keyword searches within TFAO's website and Resource Library, a collection of articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art, using the advanced search feature of Google and Yahoo. Or, before entering keywords in a basic search, enter site:tfaoi.org
Also see Indexes and information retrieval for more information.
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