Benjamin West

John Singleton Copley

George Caleb Bingham

Hudson River School

• Albert Bierstadt

• Frederick Church

• Thomas Cole

• Asher B. Durand

• Martin Johnson Heade

• George Inness

• John F. Kensett

• Thomas Moran

Winslow Homer

Thomas Eakins

William Harnett

John Peto

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

John Singer Sargent

Frederic Remington

Robert Henri

George Bellows

William Glackens

John Sloan

Patrick Henry Bruce

Marsden Hartley

Arthur Dove

Georgia O'Keeffe

Charles Burchfield

Charles Demuth

Charles Sheeler

Edward Hopper

Reginald Marsh

Aaron Bohrod

Jacob Lawrence

Abstract Expressionism

• Mark Rothko

• Milton Avery

• Willem De Kooning

• Helen Frankenthaler

• Philip Guston

• Franz Kline

• Joan Mitchell

• Jackson Pollock

• Mark Rothko

• Cy Twombly

Richard Diebenkorn

Fairfield Porter

Andrew Wyeth

Pop Art

• Jasper Johns

• Andy Warhol

• Roy Lichtenstein

Elizabeth Murray

Sidney Goodman

Recommended Reading

• The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950, the catalog to the recent exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A comprehensive overview of American Art in the first half of the last century.

• The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, same as above, Part Two.

• American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, by Robert Hughes. The textual companion to the PBS series, from one of the great writers on art today.

• American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, edited by Christos M. Joachimides, Norman Rosenthal and David Anfam. A coffee table book covering American art from Modernism through contemporary work.

• National Museum of American Art. Catalog covers the collection of this Smithsonian Institution component specializing in American Art.