Picturing America Audio Files

The following Picturing America image introductions were recorded by Karen Demers, Adult Services Librarian at the Wilbraham Public Libraryexternal link in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. The text of each introduction may be found within the Picturing America Teachers Resource Bookexternal link, written by Linda Merrill, Lisa Rogers, and Kaye Passmore and published by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Files will be added regularly.

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1A1 unknown, Anasazi Pottery, Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon 2.98 MB
1A2 unknown, Sikyátki polychrome bowl 1.95 MB
1A3 María Montoya Martínez and Julian Martínez, Jar2.51 MB
1A4 Louisa Keyser, Beacon Lights2.35 MB
1A5 Carl Toolak, Baleen basket 2.08 MB
1A6 Attributed to Caesar Johnson, Gullah rice fanner basket1.65 MB
1B various artists, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción de Acuña, San Antonio, Texas 3.53 MB
2A John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere 3.47 MB
3A Grant Wood, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 3.83 MB
3B Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (the Lansdowne portrait) 3.86 MB
4A Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware 4.16 MB
4B Hiram Powers, Benjamin Franklin 4 MB
5A Thomas Cole, The Oxbow 4 MB
5B N.C. Wyeth, Cover Illustration for The Last of the Mohicans4.17 MB
6A John James Audubon, American Flamingo 4.29 MB
6B George Catlin, Catlin Painting the Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa—Mandan 4.23 MB
7A Thomas Cole and others, Ohio State Capitol 4.59 MB
7B George Caleb Bingham, The County Election 3.87 MB
8A Albert Bierstadt, Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California 3.79 MB
8B Black Hawk, “Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger Book 3.72 MB
9A Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field 3.34 MB
9B Alexander Gardner, Abraham Lincoln 3.91 MB
10A Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial 4.18 MB
11A Thomas Eakins, John Biglin in a Single Scull 3.36 MB
11B James McNeill Whistler, Harmony in Blue and Gold, The Peacock Room 4.09 MB
12A John Singer Sargent, Portrait of a Boy 4.31 MB
12B Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917 3.7 MB
13A Walker Evans, Brooklyn Bridge, New York 3.71 MB
13B Louis Comfort Tiffany, Autumn Landscape 3.77 MB
14A Mary Cassatt, The Boating Party4.01 MB
14B Joseph Stella, Brooklyn Bridge 3.83 MB
15A Charles Sheeler, American Landscape 3.42 MB
15B William Van Alen, The Chrysler Building 4.31 MB
16A Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad 4 MB
16B Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater 3.56 MB
17A Jacob Lawrence, The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57 3.72 MB
17B Romare Bearden, The Dove 4.03 MB
18A Thomas Hart Benton, The Sources of Country Music 3.96 MB
18B Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother and Children 3.9 MB
19A Norman Rockwell, The Saturday Evening Post 1943 3.95 MB
19B James Karales, Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965 3.89 MB
20A Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape I 3.73 MB