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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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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Treasures to Go: Young America

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of fifty-seven landscapes and portraits that reveal visions of early America and its birth as a new nation as rendered by early American artists.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: It All Adds Up to Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lorna Simpson creates evocative works that examine how combinations of pictures and texts create new meanings that do not exist in the images or words alone. This lesson plan explores the concepts she works with, including African...
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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...
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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.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: American Impressionists

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides many examples of American Impressionistic work. Also, under the section titled "Overview", it gives information into the origins of American Impressionism (click the "continued" link after the paragraph).
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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.
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Other

Portland Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit the Portland Art Museum "plaza" to explore current exhibits and the museum collections, which range from Northwest and Native American art to European and American art, silver, and contemporary art. The Gilkey Center for Graphic...
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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...
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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...
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Other

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Artists: Charles White

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of African American artist Charles White. Includes examples of his artworks.
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Kentucky Educational Television

Kentucky Educational Television: Ellis Wilson: So Much to Paint

For Students 9th - 10th
Created as a supplement to a television documentary on the African-American artist, Ellis Wilson, site content includes extensive biographical information, a timeline of his life, and examples of many of his paintings.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...