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The PMA Collection and Exhibitions
American
European
Prints
Glass
General PMA Collection Information
2008 PMA Exhibition Schedule

Online Resources
AskArt.Com
Artcyclopedia
Artchive
ArtLex
ArtNet.com (includes the Grove Dictionary of Art)
Maine InfoNet Holdings Database (includes PMA Library holdings)
Maine College of Art Library
Portland Public Library
Traditional Fine Arts Organization
Click here to listen to Wells Elementary School's recording of Joan Plummer's Land, Sea & Sky Focus Tour (3/1/2006)

General Topics
Expressionism
Surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism and Fantastic Art
Braque and Picasso
Aesthetics of Art
Impressionism
Symbolism
Pop Art
Pop Art
American Masters and European Muses

19th Century Painting
John Brewster
Eakins and Bazille
Edwin Lord Weeks
Joseph Marriner Gerrish Family
Gilbert Stuart, General Dearborn
Mary Cassatt
Winslow Homer

20th Century Painting
George Bellows
David Rowe: Split Infinitive
Rockwell Kent
George Bellows: Two Women
Joan Mitchell: Couscous
Marsden Hartley
Robert Laurent
Anselm Keifer
Anslem Kiefer
Larry Rivers: The Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Abby Shahn: Strolling in Babylon
Roger Winter: Snow Moon
Charles DuBack: Coopers
Neil Welliver
Murray Hantman
Bernard Langlais: Big Cat - Night
Edvard Munch: Trauermarsch (Funeral March)
Leonard Baskin; Edvard Munch
Another Side of Rockwell Kent
Will Barnet: Winter Sky

Photography
Lola Alvarez Bravo
Margaret Bourke-White
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus

Prints and Drawings
Helen Frankenthaler: The Tale of Genji

Architecture
Architectural Influences - The Maine Perspective: Architectural Drawings - 1925-1980
Giovanni Batista Piranesi

Techniques
Lost-Wax Casting Technique

Glass
From Fancy Glass to Studio Glass
Chris Heilman

Sculpture
Alexander Calder: III
Benjamin Paul Akers: The Dead Pearl Diver
Willem de Kooning: Seated Woman
Twentieth-Century Sculpture
Louise Nevelson