Here is a list of research/articles on gender
differences that can be found in Studies in Art
Education and Art Education Journal. A local/nearby
college should have all of these copies.
Gender Search:
Feinburg, Sylvia G.
Conceptual content and spatial characteristics in
boys' and girls' drawing of fighting and helping.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 18(2), 63-72. 1977.
Flannery, Kathleen A., & Watson, Malcolm W.
Sex differences and gender-role differences in
children's drawings.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 36(2), 114-122. Winter, 1995.
Salkind, Leni, & Salking, Neil J.
Gender and age differences in preference for works of
art.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 38(4), 246-256. Summer, 1997.
Brewer, Thomas
The relationship of art instruction, grade-level, and
gender on third- and seventh-grade student drawings.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 39(2), 132-146. Winter, 1998.
Duncum, Paul
The fantasy embeddedness of girls' horse drawings.Art
Education: The Journal of the National Art Education
Association 038(6), 42-46. November, 1985.
Tuman, Donna M.
Gender style as form and content: An examination of
gender stereotypes in the subject preference of
children's drawings.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 41(1), 40-60. Fall, 1999.
Stokrocki, Mary
A school day in the life of a young Navajo girl: A
case study in ethnographic storytelling.
Art Education: The Journal of the National Art
Education Association 047(4), 61-69. July, 1994.
Wagner-Ott, Anna
Analysis of gender identity through doll and figure
politics in art education.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 43(3), 246-263. Spring, 2002.
Aune, Alison
Building with colors and shapes: The modernist
aesthetic for young children.
Art Education: The Journal of the National Art
Education Association 058(1), 25-32, January, 2005.
Tarr, Patricia
Aesthetic codes in early childhood classrooms: What
art educators can learn from Reggio Emilia.
Art Education: The Journal of the National Art
Education Association 054(3), 33-39, May, 2001.
Uhlin, Donald H.
The relationship of adolescent physical development to
art expression.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 3(2), 62-65. Spring, 1962.
Lewis, Hilda Present
Developmental stages in children's representation of
spatial relations in drawing.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 3(2), 66-74. Spring, 1962.
Neperud, Ronald W.
An experimental study of visual elements, selected art
instruction methods, and drawing development at the
fifth-grade level.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 7(2), 03-13. Spring, 1966.
Lewis, Hilda P., & Livson, Norman
Correlates of developmental level of spatial
representation in children's drawings.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 8(2), 46-57. Spring, 1967.
Trowbridge, Norma
Creativity in children in the field of art: Criterion
development study.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 9(1), 02-17. Fall, 1967.
Abrahamson, Roy E.
The development of an instrument for measuring the
degrees of divergent responses revealed in clay formed
by first grade school children.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 14(1), 47-58. Fall, 1972.
Mann, Belle, & Lehman, Elyse Brauch
Transparencies in children's human figure drawings: A
developmental approach.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 18(1), 41-48. 1976.
Gutteter, Lee J.
The psychological functioning of early adolescents who
have failed to develop a precise drawing style.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 18(1), 55-60. 1976.
Hardiman, George W., & Zernich, Theodore
Influence of style and subject matter on the
development of children's art preferences.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 19(1), 29-35. 1977.
Hardiman, George W., & Zernich, Theodore
Some considerations of Piaget's
cognitive-structuralist theory and children's artistic
development.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 21(3), 12-19. 1980.
Brown, Elesse V.
Developmental characteristics of clay figures made by
children: 1970 to 1981.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 26(1), 56-60. Fall, 1984.
Turner, Robyn Montana
Gender-related considerations for developing the text
of art instructional materials. Studies in Art
Education: A Journal of Issues and
Research 32(1), 55-64. Fall, 1990.
Looks like you have some reading ahead of you, Connie
(smile)