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Kinder Art

Kinder Art: Drawing (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Forty creative lesson plans on drawing for students of all ages! Each one gives an example, a list of materials, and step-by-step directions. Many of the activities also provide a list of books, vocabulary, extensions, and more!
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Drawing Xiii by Georgia O'keefe

For Students 9th - 10th
From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is the image "Drawing XIII", a cubist oriented charcoal drawing by Georgia O'Keefe.
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University of the Arts, London: Drawings at Universal Leonardo

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a collection of 50 drawings by Leonardo, with detailed descriptions of their historical and cultural context. A zoom-and-explore tool allows you to examine each drawing in close-up.
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Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art: Sol Le Witt: Wall Drawing Retrospective

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience over one hundred of Sol LeWitt's large-scale wall drawings at the MMOCA, spanning the artist's career from 1969 to 2007, installed over three stories of a historic mill building.
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University of the Arts, London: Manuscripts at Universal Leonardo

For Students 9th - 10th
This gallery of 22 excerpts from Leonardo's notebooks is accompanied by historical information and links to additional explorations of his interests in the forces of nature, light and vision, and imagination and invention. The drawings...
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Web Gallery of Art

Web Gallery of Art: Michelangelo

For Students 9th - 10th
The Web Gallery of Art provides an amazing online collection of Michelangelo's (1475-1564) art. Not only can you view high-quality reproductions of his drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural commissions, you can also click...
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Besides viewing the collections and exhibits at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can view the "Timeline of Art History" and other useful resources at this site.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of the Art Institute of Chicago, browse the full scope and focus of the museum's collections of French impressionism, photography, architectural drawing, European decorative arts, American art, textiles, African art,...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: How Van Gogh Made His Mark

For Students 3rd - 8th
An exhibition that focuses primarily on Van Gogh's drawings. Includes many illustrations and tools to help learners develop a deep level of understanding of "how Van Gogh made his mark." Helpful extras include a glossary, interactive...
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New York Times

New York Times: Robert Smithson: Earth Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An audio slideshow about artist Robert Smithson narrated by New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman. The slideshow, which illustrates many of Smithson's drawings and works of scuplture, including his famous "Spiral Jetty," coincides...
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ArtLex

Art Lex: History of Japanese Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A very general survey of the history of Japanese art. Click on any of the time periods to learn more specific information about each one. Includes several examples; click on the title of each work to enlarge the image and to learn more.
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PBS

Pbs: How Art Made the World: Human Body in Egypitan Art

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS documentary considers how ancient Egyptian artists chose to represent the human body and answers questions about how the cultural values of a society, such as the desire for order, shape its art. With close-ups of Egyptian art that...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Paul Sharits: Thinking in a New Way About Movies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Information about 16mm films made by Paul Sharits is packed into his two-dimensional drawings on graph paper. Students will learn about how film works to understand how to translate Sharits's drawings into information about his films....
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th
Portraits in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery can be seen and understood with excellent gallery notes that also survey the history of portraiture in American art leading up to the modern period.
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National Gallery of Canada

Cybermuse: Prints and Drawings in Inuit Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ten Inuit artists and their work are surveyed. There are lesson plans that study animism, drawing and stenciling, and printmaking. You can use the timeline to see the chronological history of this period and also juxtapose images with...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Works on Paper (American 18th Century)

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of prints, drawings and photographs at the National Gallery of Art from the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection. Nice examples of early American drawings and prints.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Shape and Line Remix

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Sol LeWitt used ideas as his artwork, a method of artmaking that has become known as Conceptual art. From each idea, many drawings, prints, or sculptures could be created. Students will use simple geometric shapes as creative starting...
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Art Window

For Students 9th - 10th
Teacher shares lessons, secrets, examples curriculum, and experiences as an art educator.
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Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Housed in a Pueblo-style Art Deco building, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center represents Alice Bemis Taylor's dream of gathering all the arts under one roof. In addition to music, dance, theater, film, sculpture, painting, and...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Magic Rocks [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships. Then,...
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Yale University

Yale University Art Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
The Yale University Art Gallery offers collections of Egyptian, Etruscan, and Greek art, early Italian panel paintings, European, Asian and African art, impressionist, modernist, and contemporary paintings and sculpture as well as...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Inside Scoop: Georgia O'keefe [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
A printable, kid-friendly introduction to the art of Georgia O'Keeffe. Includes activities and images of her work.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Life of the People: Realistic Prints & Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of American prints and drawings from 1912-1948 indicating a sympathy for the condition of working people.

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