American Great Works List: Art

Artist
Time period/
School
Medium
Works
Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Group f/64
Photography
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)
Regionalism
Painting (Murals)
Achelous and Hercules
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
Rocky Mountain School
Painting
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Impressionism
Painting
The Boating Party
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Kinetic Art
Sculpture
Flamingo, Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
California Indians
Basketry
State Parks Indian Basketry Collection
John Singleton Copely (1738-1815)
Portraiture
Painting
Watson and the Shark
Dat So La Le (1829-1925)
Basket Weaving
Marian Steinbach Indian Basket Museum
Willem De Kooning (1904-1997)
Abstract Expressionism
Painting
Woman I
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993)
Abstract Expressionism
Painting
Ocean Park #54
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
Painting, Cartoons
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio
Thomas Eakins (1944-1916)
Realist
Painting, Photography, Sculpture
The Gross Clinic
Harley Earl (1893-1969)
Car designer
Chevrolet Corvette
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)
Abstract Expressionism
Painter
Mountains and Sea, The Bay
Frank Gehry (b. 1929)
Architect
Guggenheim Museum, Walt Disney Concert Hall
Theodore Suess Geisel (1904-1991)
Illustrator
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat in the Hat
Robert Henri (1865-1929)
Realism, Ashcan School
Painting
Portrait of Fay Bainter, Snow in New York
Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Realism
Painting
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), Snap the Whip
Hopi Tribe
Kachina Dolls
Heard Museum
Edward Hopper (1882-1976)
Painting
Nighthawks
Jasper Johns (b. 1930)
Pop Art
Painting
 Flag
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
Dynamic Cubism
Painting
Ironers
Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868)
Painting
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Roy Lichtenstein
(1923-1997)
Pop Art
Painting
In the Car, Whaam!
Maria and Julian Martinez (1887-1980), (1879-1943)
Pottery
Blackware Wedding Vase
Mississippi People
Effigy Mounds
Cahokia Mounds
Mogollon Tribe
Pottery
Mimbres Pottery
Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
Rocky Mountain School
Painting
Green River Cliffs Wyoming, 1881
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Folk Art
Painting
County Fair, Sugaring Off
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Abstract Expressionism
Painting
Elegy to the Spanish Republic
Navajo Tribe
Blankets
First Phase Chief’s Blanket
Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Abstract Expressionism
Painting
Stations of the Cross
Georgia O’Keefe (1887-1986)
American Modernism
Painting
Oriental Poppies, Blue and Green Music
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)
Painting, Illustrating
Ecstasy, Stars
Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827)
Portraiture
Painting
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Abstract Expressionism
Painting
No. 5, Autumn Rhythm
Robert Rauchenberg (1925-2008)
Pop Art
Painting, mixed media
Retroactive #1
Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Tonalism
Painting, Sculpture
Bronco Buster
Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886)
Richardson Romanesque
Architect
Trinity Church Boston
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Painting
The Four Freedoms, The Problem We All Live With
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
Abstract Expressionism
Painting
Yellow and Orange, Rothko Chapel
Eero Saarinen
(1910-1961)
Architecture
Gateway Arch St. Louis
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Impressionism
Painting
Portrait of Madame X; Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose
Charles Schultz (1922-2000)
Comic Strips
Peanuts
Gustav Stickley (1858-1942)
Arts and Crafts Movement
Furniture, Interior Design
Gustav Stickley House
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Photography
Winter, 5th Avenue; The Hand of Man;
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
Portraiture
Painting
The Athenaeum
Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924)
Modernism
Architect
Wainwright Building
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)
Realism
Painting
The Banjo Lesson, Daniel in the Lions Den
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
Stained Glass, Lamps
Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church
Tlingit Tribe
Totem Poles
Kake, Alaska
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Pop Art
Painting, Printmaking
Campbell’s Soup Cans, Marilyn Diptych
Benjamin West (1738-1820)
Historical Painting
Painting
Death of General Wolfe
James Whistler (1834-1903)
Tonalism
Painting
Whistler’s Mother, Symphony in White No. 1
Grant Wood (1891-1942)
Regionalism
Painting
American Gothic
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Organic Architecture
Architecture
Fallingwater, Taliesin
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Realism, Regionalism
Paintings
Christina’s World




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