Resources for Sketchbook Task #2

Ukiyo-e
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ukiy/hd_ukiy.htm Use the information around the pictures to find names of famous artists who depict women. Library of Congress Exhibition: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/ Has a great section on Japanese beauties and their categories. Also a section about the cultural cross-referencing between Japan and the West Ukiyo-e.org: http://ukiyo-e.org/ Lost of great pictures organized by year/period. You can view the visual transformations of the prints through the years.

Women
Japanese Womens Suffrage Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage_in_Japan Status and Role Change Among Japanese Women: http://voices.yahoo.com/statusrole-change-among-japanese-women-293447.html?cat=37 Read the information about the 1800s. Culture of Japan via everyculture.com: http://www.everyculture.com/JaMa/Japan.html Use Command F to find Gender Roles and Statuses section. Read also Marriage, Family and Kinship (directly below Gender Roles). History of Women in the US Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_women_in_the_United_States#1800.E2.80. 931900

Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cassatt Mary Cassatt- Met Museum: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cast/hd_cast.htm

Mary Cassatt: The Complete Works: http://www.marycassatt.org/the-completeworks.html This site has the images of all of Cassatts prints. Remember to look for the prints, not paintings. National Gallery of Art Collection: Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt Show from June, 2013- http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/cassatt/cassattmain1.html Great images of some of Cassatts prints. Good views of earlier works. NGA brochure for the show: http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/cassatt_brochure_finalnew.pdf More images of sketches and in-progress works.

Edgar Degas