contents

Preface

1 Studying Nature

John Constable

Martin Johnson Heade

Claude Monet

Georgia O’Keeffe

Andy Goldsworthy

2 Exploring Places

Rembrandt van Rijn

Canaletto

Jasper Francis Cropsey

Thomas Moran

Henri Matisse / André Derain

George Bellows

3 Examining Portraits

Leonardo da Vinci

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun

Vincent van Gogh / Paul Gauguin

Chuck Close

4 Telling Stories

Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi

Rogier van der Weyden Raphael

Peter Paul Rubens

John Singleton Copley

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Jacob Lawrence

5 Observing Everyday Life

Jan Steen

Osias Beert the Elder / Willem Claesz Heda

Édouard Manet

Mary Cassatt

Winslow Homer

Wayne Thiebaud

6 Questioning Traditions

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Johannes Vermeer

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Pablo Picasso

Joan Miró

Diego Rivera

Romare Bearden

Jackson Pollock

Roy Lichtenstein

7 Playing with Space

Edgar Degas

Alexander Calder

Dan Flavin

Martin Puryear

Timeline of Artists

Acknowledgments

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