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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Landscape Painting

For Students 9th - 10th
A Smithsonian website plus lesson plans on the art of landscape painting. Includes details on landscape painting techniques to create the illusion of depth and space as well as information on four landscape artists.
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Museum Network (UK)

Museum Network: Landscapes in Art: Explore, Learn, Inspire

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum Network presents, "Landscapes in Art: Explore, Learn, Inspire", an interactive exploration of the visual art genre, the landscape. With activities, information about the development of the landscape in painting, examples of...
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Courbet and the Modern Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
The Getty's multimedia-rich exploration of the life and career of French realist Gustave Courbet, whose innovative approach to landscape painting inspired many artists who came after him, including Monet, Cezanne, and Pissarro. Along...
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US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Landscape Architects

For Students 9th - 10th
A general description of the landscape architect profession, including work conditions, and training requirements.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo: Landscape Painting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan uncovers the "tricks" artists use when creating a landscape painting. Students will explore the work of American artists George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Winslow Homer. One of the activities is in spanish.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will learn about horizon lines in traditional landscapes and portraits, shadows and reflected light, and John Pfahl's Altered Landscapes. They will also create their own altered landscape photographs and portraits and write...
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US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Landscape Architects

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a good description of the nature of working as a landscape architect. Qualifications, education job outlook and earnings, with links to realted occupations are included in this site.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography

For Teachers 9th - 10th
John Pfahl used creativity, strategic placement of objects, changing vantage points, and a sense of humor to create his Altered Landscape series of photographs. Students will learn about his artist statements and methods and then create...
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Museum Network (UK)

Museum Network: "Landscape With a Watermill" by Francois Boucher

For Students 9th - 10th
From the British, Museum Network, which brings together information from and the expertise of various professionals at numerous museums, this is an object description of "Landscape with a Watermill" by the French Rococo painter, Francois...
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The Newberry Library

Newberry: Commodities and the Transformation of the American Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning resource uses primary source material to explore the ways in which commodities are extracted, produced, and exchanged and how those processes have shaped the physical and cultural landscape of North America.
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British Library

British Library: Bronte's Wuthering Heights: Walking the Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will explore the landscape of Wuthering Heights from a range of different angles. They will compare the fictional landscape described in Emily Bronte's novel with a number of other sources and consider why a...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Observing Physical and Cultural Landscapes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students examine photographs of Europe as they learn to distinguish between physical and cultural characteristics of a landscape, and make observations and inferences about the places and people in the photographs. They...
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Museum Network (UK)

Museum Netowrk: "A Wooded Landscape With a Waterfall" by Jacob Van Ruisdael

For Students 9th - 10th
From the British, Museum Network, which brings together information from and the expertise of various professionals at numerous museums, this is an object description of "A Wooded Landscape with a Waterfall" by the Dutch Baroque painter,...
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Museum Network (UK)

Museum Network: "The Rainbow Landscape" by Peter Paul Rubens

For Students 9th - 10th
From the British, Museum Network, which brings together information from and the expertise of various professionals at numerous museums, this is an object description of "The Rainbow Landscape" by the Flemish Baroque painter, Peter Paul...
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Chronological Listing of Landscape Painters

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's chronological list of landscape painters from the 16th thru the 20th centuries. There are links to the artists' biography and works.
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University of Alberta

Eas: A Gallery of 19th Century Icelandic Landscape Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides images of 19th century landscapes of various parts of Iceland. Images links to larger images for viewing purposes.
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Other

Asla: Landscape Architect Career Discovery

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you dream of working outdoors? A career in landscape architecture may be a good fit for you! Investigate job descriptions and take a landscape architecture interest quiz.
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Brushed With Light: American Landscape Watercolors

For Students 9th - 10th
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit, a description of the show and sections with audio clips,...
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit.
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: "Under the Open Sky": Landscape Sketches by Nineteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, ""Under the Open Sky": Landscape Sketches by Nineteenth-Century American Artists" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Landscape Regions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab activity where students study the" relationships between landscape appearance, topography and underlying geology". In this particular activity students explore the landscape region of New York State to see the effects of...
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PBS

Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: City Landscape by Joan Mitchell

For Students 9th - 10th
Webpage describing City Landscape, a painting by Joan Mitchell from the Art Institute of Chicago. Image of art provided as well as an option of a larger version or a detail viewer that can be navigated. Also includes a quote about the...
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Careers New Zealand

Careers New Zealand: Landscape Architect

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on becoming a landscape architect. While some of the information is specific to New Zealand, most of it is uniform to the career.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
A landscape is part of the Earths surface that can be viewed at one time from one place. It consists of the geographic features that mark, or are characteristic of, a particular area. This resource examines different ways types of...

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