Artist and Context
- What can we find out about the artist?
- What can we find out about his work?
- What can we find out about this work?
- How did other artists use this medium, or other techniques, to create similar or related artwork?
- Consider the work in context with other works of its time, genre, region, style.
- Who were the artist's mentors, peers, contemporaries, critics?
- Identify writings or statements by the artist that would shed light on this piece.
- What other primary sources can I find?
Frederic Edwin Church, "Mt. Ktaadn".
Figure 1. Frederic Edwin Church, Mt. Ktaadn, 1853, oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery. Accessed January 10, 2016.
Figure 2. Henry D. Thoreau, "Ktaadn, and the Maine Woods. No. 1. The Wilds of the Penobscot." Sartain's Union Magazine, July 1848, 29-33. Hathi Trust, accessed January 5, 2016
Helpful Links
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Oxford Art Online ESSENTIAL. This comprehensive, online art encyclopedia is the best place to start your research on an artist or topic. It is a cross-searchable interface to the full text and new updates to The Grove Dictionary of Art (1996), The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001), the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (1998) and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Art Images
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Colby College Museum of Art Images, via ARTstorUse ARTstor to access and search over 2,300 images from the Colby College Museum's collections. Create a personal account to save and export images to Power Point.
