Unit Plan
Other

Fine Arts Museum: Teachers' Guide to American Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This guide focuses on twenty-four paintings from the impressive collection of American art housed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The earliest work, a portrait of the children of a Puritan family, dates from 1670. The last piece...
Lesson Plan
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.
Handout
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (1856 1925)

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on the American artist John Singer Sargent. With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.
Website
Other

Butler Institute of American Art

For Students 9th - 10th
American artists are featured in the collections of this museum, which has four branches.
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African American History and Culture

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This Smithsonian museum is dedicated to the preservation of African American culture. Includes a portrait gallery, profiles of African American artists, exhibitions devoted to the struggle for civil rights, historical photographs and...
Website
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: A Journey Through Art With w.h. Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover one of our nation's great African American artists. See images of his colorful work and try out some of the suggested activities coupled with each piece.
Lesson Plan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: How Observant Are You?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pop artists of the 1960s encouraged people to look more closely at the everyday objects around them. How observant are your students? This lesson plan focuses on observation, memory, and home and classroom environments.
Graphic
Other

American Folk Art Museum: Henry Darger

For Students 9th - 10th
Image gallery of American folk artist Henry Darger's work. Learn about Darger's masterpiece, "The Story of the Vivian Girls," and the Henry Darger Study Center.
Lesson Plan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Can It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pop artists used consumer products, advertising, and popular culture icons as the major source for subject matter in their art. Between 1962 and 1967, Andy Warhol painted soup cans, both individually and in groups. 100 Cans is one of the...
Lesson Plan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: 3 D "Special Space" Painting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Jim Dine's Child's Blue Wall combines sculpture and painting. It is both a realistic depiction of a child's bedroom and an abstract painting of a night sky. This lesson plan explores how Dine accomplished these two ideas in the same work...
Article
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: African American Artists, 1929?1945

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this website provides an online version of an exhibition heralding the works of famous African-American artists.
Website
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Gemini Artist Workshop 1966 1996

For Students 9th - 10th
An invaluable site showing works and discussing artists who were part of the Gemini Artist Workshop. Artist include David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Nancy Kienholz and over 50 others.
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold)

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze relief sculpture "Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold)" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Head of Victory

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze sculpture "Head of Victory" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Samuel Gray Ward

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze relief sculpture "Samuel Gray Ward" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Robert Louis Stevenson

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze relief sculpture "Robert Louis Stevenson" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Jules Bastien Lepage

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze relief sculpture "Jules Bastien-Lepage" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Amor Caritas

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze sculpture "Amor Caritas" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mrs. Stanford White (Bessie Springs Smith)

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined marble relief sculpture "Mrs. Stanford White (Bessie Springs Smith)" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Diana

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze sculpture "Diana" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and lonks to...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Davida Johnson Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined plaster sculpture "Davida Johnson Clark" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Louise Adele Gould

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined marble sculpture "Louise Adele Gould" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Puritan

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze sculpture "The Puritan" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and lonks...
Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Victory

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze sculpture "Victory" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and lonks to...