John de Monins Johnson was a tremendous collector of printed ephemera during his life, and he was particularly keen on items which depicted people at work in various vocations. He was inspired by his work in Egypt as a papyrologist during the early 20th century, and he went on to return to Britain to help save the country's paper heritage. Johnson's collection ended up at the Bodleian Library at...

This delightful webpage is for nature-lovers and art-lovers alike. John Muir Laws is an artist, naturalist, and educator who has authored a number of outdoor and drawing guides. On How to Draw Plants, a project Laws heads with support from the California Native Plant Society, visitors can learn how to sketch a variety of plants and flowers - a skill that enables nature enthusiasts to record new...

During his long career, the American sculptor John Rogers sold over 80,000 works. Without a doubt, he was the most popular sculptor of the 19th century in America, and his small narrative plasters were part of a storied artistic tradition in the United States. Through his work, he reached thousands of Americans and he addressed the ideals and issues that shaped their everyday experience....

The two US museums that own the largest collections of John Singer Sargent's work, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Brooklyn Museum, have collaborated to mount this exhibition of over 90 Sargent watercolors. The accompanying website features a slideshow with 10 paintings, and several short videos. The first painting in the slideshow, Simplon Pass: Reading, about 1911, shows two young women...

Campuses across the country have been developing digital media centers from over a decade now, and the Digital Media Center at Johns Hopkins University has created this website to showcase some of their own work and to serve as an example for other institutions who might be interested in improving their own facilities in this area. Visitors can click on over to the "Learning" section to take a...

Navigating The Imagination, a Joseph Cornell interactive created by the Peabody Essex Museum, allows a visitor to open up some of this artist's boxes, shake out the objects, and play with them (at least virtually). Short on text and long on pictures, the interactive begins with a compartmentalized box holding details from Cornell's works. Cornell's magic and mystery is preserved as viewers...

The Sechtl family has been in the photography business for over 150 years, and they have been working on digitizing their extensive archive for use by the general public. Of course, visitors can also visit their museum in the Czech Republic, but this website functions as a great entry point for learning about their body of work. Visitors may wish to start their journey by reading some of the...

Started in 2009, the Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (JAC) is an open-access journal "that aims to develop inter-disciplinary theoretical models as applied to human science research on aesthetic questions." The JAC has assembled an editorial board of scholars from across the world, including experts from New York University, Lund University, and the University of Bergen. On their website, visitors...

In these uncertain times, many viewers will find comfort in the work of Kathe Kollwitz. The German artist's work shone a spotlight on the suffering caused by poverty, hunger, and war among working people, especially children and mothers, and took a strong stand against violence. The website is divided into five chapters: an introduction, Youth, Wars, and Legacy, as well as a Gallery of Kollwitz's...

Can land reclamation be public art? It most certainly can and large scale installations can be found in abundance from California to Maine. This rather wonderful project appeared in Washington's King County in the summer of 1979. The King County Archives brought together original interviews, photos, and other documents for this marvelous exploration of a unique and trend-setting endeavor. The...