Fine Arts & Design - Sellersburg: Prints & Printmaking

-Grouped around eight themes central to the Expressionist movement, this Web site fosters an interactive study of this modern movement illustrating over 120 works in more than 50 comparative groupings

Giuseppe Vasi was born in 1710 in Corleone, Sicily. He published between 1746 and 1761 ten books of etchings showing the monuments of Rome

This American Memory collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest

Contains Rembrandt's: Bible, Portraits, Genre and Landscapes

This collection contains Hiroshige's Fish, Hiroshige's Tokaido Series, and 22 Japanese Woodcuts

Contains the Apocalypse series, Large Passion series, engraved Passion series, Life of the Virgin, and the small Passion

This site features Frank Stella, John Sloan, Childe Hassam, and others

Robert Blackburn's pioneering contributions to the technical and aesthetic development of abstract color lithography are as legendary as his generosity in encouraging and training thousands of diverse artists to experiment in the graphic medium

The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance showcases the Library's spectacular holdings of Japanese "Ukiyo-e" (translated as pictures of the floating, or sorrowful, world) and is the first public viewing of this important and previously unseen collection

An interesting, well illustrated article on the Japanese artist Hokusai

This museum in the town of Obuse, Japan offers a small selection of Hokusai's works online including brilliantly colored ceiling paintings

A newly sharpened social and political awareness dominated the prints and drawings of the period between 1912 and 1948. Artists of the period felt a strong affinity for the common people...Stylistically, many artists chose a modified realism as a means of expression more accessible to the general public, rather than the European avant garde. Technically, lithography, which could more easily yield larger editions than other original media, flourished

A short biography accompanies prints by Robert Indiana

This site explains woodcut, etching, lithography and screenprint