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Cincinnati Arts Association: Native American Heritage [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This study guide, originally designed to accompany an artist-in-the-schools outreach program, can be used to teach about hidden Native communities that populated the Ohio region after the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: Romare Bearden

For Students 9th - 10th
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art contains a summary of Bearden's life, some of his art, key ideas, discussion questions, and links to additional resources.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Del Corazon: Latino Voices in American Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A multimedia art exhibit of Latino art that focuses on the work of six contemporary Latino artists. You can read artist biographies and see a gallery of representative works where you learn more about the particular cultural experiences...
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New York Times

New York Times: Richard Tuttle: Post Minimalist Wonders

For Students 9th - 10th
An audio slideshow about the work and creative process of American artist Richard Tuttle. Excellent examples of Tuttle's work made during the early, middle, and late stages of his career, with equally excellent commentary on the aspects...
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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.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: William M. Harnett

For Students 9th - 10th
View nineteenth-century American trompe o'eil still life "For Sunday's Dinner" by William Harnett, with context and analysis.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Alfred Stieglitz (1864?1946) and His Circle

For Students 9th - 10th
From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is a glimpse into the artistic world of Alfred Stieglitz, the New York City art dealer and pioneering photographer.
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PBS

Art21: Barbara Kruger

For Students 9th - 10th
Much of Kruger's art questions the viewer about feminism, consumerism, and desire. Her trademark black text on a red background has been seen around the world and can still be recognized today.
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National Gallery of Canada

National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario)

For Students 9th - 10th
The online arm of the National Gallery of Canada provides a variety of entryways into the museum's collections of Canadian art, aboriginal art, Inuit art, photographs, contemporary art, and American and European art. Use the museum's...
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University of Arizona

Avery Collection of American Indian Art: Shonto Begay

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography with a few images from Native American Artist Shonto Begay. The images are from the Avery collection and there are links to Begay's website and other American Indian Art.
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Read Works

Read Works: I Am Native American

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text based on an interview with Native American artist Jody Naranjo. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Childe Hassam

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is made possible through a generous gift from the Henry Luce Foundation and presents thirty-five hundred art and craft objects from American Art to the public. This page...
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Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: 1990 1999: Art and Architecture

For Students 3rd - 8th
Offers a brief summary of some of the trends in art and architecture during the 1990s. Many links throughout the text will take you to other sites with relevant information.
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Whitney Museum: Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at Jacob Lawrence and his art, and instructions on how to make your own tempera paints and "paint your own story," using Lawrence's work as inspiration.
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US National Archives

Nara: Pictures of the Revolutionary War

For Students 9th - 10th
Black and white reproductions from famous paintings by the National Archives and Records Administration. There are paintings of battle scenes, famous participants, traitors and even a perspective from the British point of view.
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Other

American Impressionist Selections

For Students 9th - 10th
A great list provided of American Impressionist artists and their exhibits. A visual site of artist's paintings of impressionism style.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Rembrandt Peale

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a portrait photograph and biography of Rembrandt Peale, the early American portrait painter and most of famous of the Peale brothers family of artists.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Beauford Delaney

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Beauford Delaney is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his association with the Harlem Renaissance and his portraits of African Americans.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Eanger Irving Couse

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Eanger Irving Couse is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his depictions and paintings of Native Americans.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Esphyr Slobodkina

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides biographical information on Esphyr Slobodkina, a Cubist artist whose sphere of influence included children's books. The online exhibit includes images and descriptions of several of her works.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: American Scene Painters

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia's complete list of artists from the mainstream realist and antimodernist styles of the Great Depression. There are links to the artists' biographies and pictures of their work.
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PBS

Pbs: American Masters: Diego Rivera

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS provides a biographical article about the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) who was married to fellow artist Frieda Kahlo.
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PBS

Pbs: They Drew Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website to the PBS documentary on the military and civilian artists who captured WW II in art at their personal peril.
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Abc: Abstraction

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Alma Woodsey Thomas is the focus of this lesson plan that introduces students to abstract art. Students will come to understand how the art elements can be used to express emotion and communicate ideas without including objects in the...