North American Art
See Also: Ethnic and Regional
American
Whitney Museum of American Art
Collections of twentieth-century American art, with a permanent collection of over 12,000 works including paintings, photographs, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings and prints.
National Museum of the American Indian
Thousands of Native North American works from the Northwest Coast, the Plains, and the Southwest.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The first federal art collection in America, dedicated to the understanding of and enjoyment of American art.
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
The worlds largest and most widely used resource for the history of art in America.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Art
Includes Colonial American art, and American art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Art Institute of Chicago
View works of art in the American collections, includes paintings from 1700-1955, sculpture, decorative arts, furniture, and American Modernism.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Features contemporary American art primarily of the New England region with rotating exhibitions of large scale outdoor sculpture, also provides an online database with images and information about the works.
NGA: American Painting
Selected online tours of American portraits, impressionists, and realists, plus a collection of in-depth studies and more from the National Gallery of Art, United States.
Early American Paintings
Collection of paintings in the Worcester Art Museum includes detailed information about the paintings and biographies of the artists.
La Fayette: Database of American Art
Works in the French national collections that were created by American artists from 1620-1940.
San Diego Museum of Art: American Art in Context
An exhibition that explores European influence on late 19th century American art.
LACMA: American Art Historical Period
Explore the development of art and culture in the United States from 1760 - 1945, an online exhibition from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Brooklyn Museum: American Art
View around 1,234 objects in the online collections of the Brooklyn Museum.
Celebrating The American Wing: American Portraits
An online feature from The Metropolitan Museum of Art presenting 9 important portraits from the Museum's collection along with related information and works.
Canadian
National Gallery of Canada
Created in 1880, it is one of Canada's oldest national cultural institutions and it is the largest visual arts museum in the country.
Vancouver Art Gallery
Comprehensive resource for visual art and culture in British Columbia.
Resources
Museums in the USA
A database of museums in the US listed by name, state, and type.
Sister Wendy's American Collection
Sixty seven year old British nun, and art critic, shares her views of works in America's greatest museums.
American Art: Explore 10 Themes
An online art teaching resource from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Wikipedia: American Artists
Lists well known artists by name, state, medium, and heritage.