Research Guides: Art History: Annotated bibliography research: Children's Art

Books

Many articles in journals and magazines focus on topics like:

the benefits of art education
art programs for children
exhibits of children's art
ways that art effects child development
art therapy used to help children who've experienced trauma, depression, or other conditions

Here are some searches to try in library databases:

Academic Search Complete: Example articles
Search: "youth art" OR "child artists"
ProQuest: Example search
"Youth Art" OR "child artists" OR "children as artists"

Through the Rhodascope: How Rhoda Kellogg Taught the World to Leave Teaching to the Children San Francisco Art Commission presentation about Rhoda Kellogg, October 2019.
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"Rhoda Kellogg (1898–1987) was an early childhood scholar, educator, author, and activist who was in a near-continual state of processing child art for six decades, most significantly as the designer and director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Preschool, which still operates in San Francisco. In this illustrated lecture, artist, curator, and archivist Brian Belott and early childhood educator Jennifer DiGioia reflect on Kellogg's pioneering research in early visual learning, with a focus on the significance of scribbles and finger paintings."
Rhoda Kellogg Child Art Collection "Rhoda Kellogg was a psychologist and a nursery school educator. Here investigations focused on the art of young children, that is, on early graphic expressions. From 1948 to 1966, she collected approximately one million drawings of young children of ages two to eight."