North America
North America
Basics to get you started
About geography and chronological periods in Native American art
Terms and issues in Native American art
Defining “pre-Columbian” and “Mesoamerica”
Mesoamerica, an introduction
Periods in Mesoamerican history
The Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas, an introduction
New Spain, an introduction
Latin American art, an introduction
1800–48 in the United States, an introduction
1848–77 in the United States, an introduction
1877–1898 in the United States, an introduction
1898–1945 in the United States, an introduction
1945–80 in the United States, an introduction
1980–now in the United States, an introduction
Mission churches as theaters of conversion in New Spain
The Medici collect the Americas
Elite secular art in New Spain
Painting Mexica (Aztec) history
Glossary for pre-Columbian art
Hispaniola’s early colonial art, an introduction
The Mesoamerican Calendar
Pueblo architecture and its relationship to place
Defensive saints and angels in the Spanish Americas
Late pre-classic Mesoamerica, an introduction
Serpents in Mexica culture
The World’s Columbian Exposition: The Midway
Northwest Coast basketry—woven traditions
Early Scientific Exploration in Latin America
The Academy of San Carlos
Mexican Independence
Classical Architecture in Viceregal Mexico
International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
Landscape painting in 19th-century Latin America
Prints and Printmakers in Colonial New Spain
The Mexican-American War
John Brown’s “tragic prelude” to the U.S. Civil War
Nativism, immigration, and the Know-Nothing party
Peaks and perils: The life of Carleton Watkins
Jewish art in the United States before 1900, an introduction
“The Immediate Cause of the Civil War,” an introduction
Imagining the West, territorial expansion, and the politics of slavery
The Missouri Compromise and the dangerous precedent of appeasement
Experiences of the U.S. Civil War, an introduction
Abraham Lincoln and northern memory
The Lost Cause and Confederate memory
Memory and commemoration of the U.S. Civil War, an introduction
Olmec Jade
The Ashcan School, an introduction
Abstract Expressionism, an introduction
The impact of Abstract Expressionism
Representation and abstraction: looking at Millais and Newman
The Painting Techniques of Ad Reinhardt
Barnett Newman
The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman
Mark Rothko (at MoMA)
The case for Minimalism
The case for Andy Warhol
The case for Jackson Pollock
How photographs of poverty in the Americas ignited an international battle over propaganda
New Topographics
An interview with Robert Frank
Mark Bradford on Clyfford Still
What is: Abstract Expressionism?
Postcommodity arts collective
An interview with Jamian Juliano-Villani
An interview with Maryam Hoseini
Meriem Bennani’s Exploded Visions
Jordan Casteel paints her community
Theaster Gates on collecting
Luchita Hurtado’s body of work
Graciela Iturbide, photographing Mexico
Mickalene Thomas on her materials and artistic influences
Latin American artists learning in Paris
Kerry James Marshall: mastry
Shirin Neshat, “Dreams Are Where Our Fears Live”
Kerry James Marshall on his process
The Black Atlantic: identity and nationhood
The Black Atlantic: toppled monuments and hidden histories
The Black Atlantic: afterlives of slavery in contemporary art
Black Mountain College
Ellen Gallagher: Cutting
Lorna Simpson – ‘Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire’
Senga Nengudi, Linda Goode Bryant and the Just Above Midtown Gallery
Surrealism: Imagining A New World
The Art Market and taxes
A landmark decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC
Alternative art spaces in New York City
Contemporary Native American architecture
Cultural heritage at risk: United States
Dada politics
Dada readymades
Jewish history in the post-war period
Modern art and reality
More on the Aztecs (Mexica)
Paleolithic art, an introduction
Primitivism and modern art
Remake the Met
Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF)
Running in sneakers, the Judson Dance Theater
Self Help Graphics and Art
The Neolithic revolution
The Pictures Generation
Costumbrismo
The case for Conceptual art
Abstract art and Theosophy
“Creative iconoclasm”: a tale of two monasteries
Realism, an introduction
Romanticism, an introduction
Scenes of the Alameda Central of Mexico City
Dada Manifesto
Dada pataphysics
How to recognize Baroque art
The global Baroque, an introduction
Japonisme
Contemporary art, an introduction
The Maya, an introduction
The case for Surrealism
The Aesthetic Movement
Surrealist Techniques: Subversive Realism
Surrealist Techniques: Automatism
The bug that had the world seeing red
How to paint like Franz Kline
Surrealism and Women
Surrealism, an introduction
Surrealism: Origins and Precursors
An interview with Alfredo Jaar
Dada performance
What is the impact and legacy of Cook’s voyages?
Impressionist pictorial space
The medieval calendar
Chiaroscuro explained
The challenge of the nude in 19th-century Latin American painting
Sotheby’s Returns Looted 10th Century Statue to Cambodia
African religious culture in the Atlantic world
The case for abstraction
Early photography: Niépce, Talbot, and Muybridge
What can be done to protect cultural heritage?
A brief history of the art museum
Expression and modern art
A global Middle Ages through the pages of decorated books
Marcel Duchamp and the viewer
Portrait painting in the Viceroyalty of Peru
Surrealist Exhibitions
How to paint like Ad Reinhardt
Trafficking the past
Seizure of looted antiquities illuminates what museums want hidden
Latin American artistic pilgrimages to Paris
Olmec masks and masquerade, an introduction
An introduction to photography in the early 20th century
The Bauhaus, an introduction
The Bauhaus and Bau
The Viceroyalty of Peru, an introduction
Performance art, an introduction
The reception of African art in the West
Impressionism, an introduction
Fluxus, an introduction
Timeline
The Pyramid of the Moon and the Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, c. 1st century C.E., Mexico (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Works of Art
Artists
Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995 (photo: © Ai Weiwei)
Periods, Cultures, Styles
Great Lakes and Central Woodland Native American
Sac and Fox Nation
Seneca
Wyandotte
Northwest Coast Native American
Cowichan
Tseshaht
Cree
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Dakota
Denesuline/Chipewyan
Kainai
Southeastern Native North American
Shawnee
Greater Nicoya
Tlaxcalan Civilization
Prehistoric
before 2000 B.C.E.
Paleolithic
before 10,000 B.C.E.
Aleut (Unangan)
to today
Inuit
to today
Yup’ik
to today
Californian Native American
to today
Chumash
to today
Mono Lake Paiute
to today
Eastern Woodland Native American
to today
Lenni Lenape (Delaware)
to today
Shinnecock
to today
Eastern Shoshone
to today
Winnebago (Ho-Chunk)
to today
Great Basin Native American
to today
Anishinaabe
to today
Haida
to today
Kwakwaka’wakw
to today
Suquamish
prehistory–today
Tlingit
To today
Tsimshian
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Cheyenne
to today
Iháƞktȟuƞwaƞna Dakhóta
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Kiowa
to today
Lakota
to today
Hunkpapa Lakota
to today
Minneconjou Lakota
to today
Mandan
to today
Pawnee
to today
Cherokee
to today
Choctaw
to today
Acoma
to today
Hopi
to today
Puebloan
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Santa Clara
to today
San Ildefonso
to today
Zia
to today
Isthmian
to today
Payómkawichum (Luiseño)
to today
Indé (Apache)
to today
ʔívil̃uqaletem (Cahuilla)
to today
Abenaki
to today
Plateau Native American
to today
Syilx (Okanagan)
to today
Clovis
c. 11,200–10,900 B.C.E.
Native North American (First Nations)
before 11,200 B.C.E.–today
Neolithic
c. 10,000–2000 B.C.E.
Arctic Native American
to today
Plains Native American
to today
Apsáalooke (Crow)
to today
Osage
to today
Southwestern Native American
to today
Diné (Navajo)
to today
Cochiti
to today
Hawaiian
to today
Mesoamerican
before 7000 B.C.E.–1500 C.E.
Maya civilization
c. 3000 B.C.E.–1697 C.E.
Huastec civilization
c. 2000 B.C.E.–1521
Oceti Sakowin Oyate (Sioux)
c. 1,000–1 B.C.E. to the present
Tlatilco
c. 1800–400 B.C.E.
Coclé
c. 1200 B.C.E.–16th century C.E.
Olmec
c. 1200–400 B.C.E.
Zapotec civilization
c. 600 B.C.E.–900 C.E.
Teotihuacan
c. 100 B.C.E.–750 C.E.
Classic Veracruz
c. 1–1200 C.E.
Ancestral Puebloan
c. 1–1300
Mogollon
c. 200–1450
Viking Age
c. 8th–13th century
Mixteca-Puebla
c. 9th–early 16th century
Fort Ancient Culture
1000–1650
Paquimé (Casas Grandes)
c 1150–1350
Taíno
c. 1200–today
Mixtec civilization
c. 1200–1521
Mattaponi
to today
Mexica (Aztec)
1325–1521
Colonial American
c. 1492–1898
Colonial Caribbean
1492–today
Colonial Spanish American
c. 1520–1898
Viceroyalty of New Spain
c. 1520–1821
New France
1534–1763
Viceroyalty of Peru
1542–1824
Native American Colonial period
c. 1598–1830
Huron-Wendat
17th century–today
Baroque
c. 1600–1700
Age of Enlightenment
17th–18th century
Colonial British American (13 colonies)
c. 1607–1776
Academic
1648–today
Hopi-Tewa
to today
Viceroyalty of New Granada
c. 1717–1822
Gothic Revival
Mid-18th century–late 19th century
Neoclassicism
c. 1760–1830
Neoclassical sculpture
late 18th–early 20th century
Early U.S. Republic
c. 1776–1820
Latin American independence movements
1791–today
Romanticism
c. 1800–1848
Edgefield District
mid-19th century
Egyptian Revival
c. 19th–early 20th century
Mexican independence
1810–21
Antebellum period
c. 1812–61
Hudson River School
1825–70
Early photography
c. 1826–85
Realism
c. 1830–80
Native American Removal period
c. 1830–49
Beaux-Arts
19th–early 20th century
Native American Reservation period
c. 1849–87
Pictorialist
1850s–1930s
Arts and Crafts
c. 1860–1920
U.S. Civil War period
1861–65
Aestheticism
c. 1862–1900
Reconstruction era
1865–77
Impressionism
c. 1870–1920
Chicago School
late 19th century
Prairie School
late 19th–early 20th century
Jim Crow era
1870s–1960s
Gilded Age
1877–1900
Art Nouveau
c. 1880–1910
Symbolism
c. 1880–1910
Native American Allotment and Assimilation period
c. 1887–1934
Modernisms
c. 1900–1980
Latin American Modernism
1900–1980
Ashcan School
c. 1900–1930s
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1905–17
Dada
1913–24
Taos Society of Artists
1915–27
Harlem Renaissance
c. 1918–1940
Mexican Muralism
c. 1920–60
Latin American Constructivism
c. 1920–70
International Style
c. 1920–1980
Precisionism
1920s
Art Deco
1920s–1930s
Surrealism
1922–c. 1950
Latin American Surrealism
1925–50
Social Realism
c. 1930–1945
Native American Reorganization period
c. 1934–53
Abstract Expressionism
c. 1947–60
Civil Rights era
c. 1950–75
Color field
1952–85
Native American Termination period
c. 1953–75
New York School
c. 1955–75
Pop Art
c. 1956–75 and after
Minimalism
c. 1959–75
Conceptual art
c. 1960–70 and after
Brutalist
1960s–70s
Neo-Dada
c. 1960s
Late Modernism/Postmodernism
1962–today
Fluxus
1962–79
Postminimalism
c. 1963–80
Chicano Art Movement
c. 1960s–70s
Washington Color School
c. 1965–85
Photorealism
late 1960s–early 1970s
The Pictures Generation
1974–84
Native American Self-determination period
c. 1975–2001
Contemporary
1980–today
Native American Sovereignty period
c. 2001–today
