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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lia Cook: Textile Painter

For Students 9th - 10th
The artwork of Lia Cook, textile painter is profiled. Cook has a unique way of "weaving paintings" by dying silk cords, painting linen threads, and weaving them together to create figures and motifs.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Painter's Studio

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a painter who dreams of painting a masterpiece and learns a valuable lesson. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Chronological Listing of Still Life Painters

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's complete list of still life painters from the 16th thru the 20th centuries. There are links to the artists' biography and works.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Chronological Listing of Flower Painters

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's chronological list of flower painters from the 16th thru the 20th centuries. There are links to the painters' biography and works.
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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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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Chronological Listing of Child Painters

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's complete list of painters of children from the 19th and 20th centuries to the present. There are links to the artists' biography and works.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Hans the Painter by Mary C. Rowsell

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Baldwin Library: Hans the Painter by Mary C. Rowsell (1888). This book is a fictional biography of Hans the painter.
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Other

The Art Career Project: Painter

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains general information about what to expect in a career as a painter, including work environment, education and training suggestions, and salary and job outlooks.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Master Charlie, Painter, Poet, Novelist, and Teacher

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication Master Charlie, Painter, Poet, Novelist, and Teacher by Phillis Browne, a book of stories for children.
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Tour Costa Rica

Costa Rica: Francisco Amighetti ( Engraver, Painter )

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is part of the Web of InfoCostaRica. The page gives the biography of Francisco Amighetti, a famous Costa Rican Engraver and Painter. It also includes a photo of one of his paintings.
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Other

Eggtempera: The Society of Tempera Painters

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains about using egg tempera paint. The history of the medium and examples from past and present artists are included on this site. The information on this site is very complete with everything you need to know about the...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Schalken the Painter" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Schalken the Painter" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, a 19th-century Irish writer of Gothic stories. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Robin Chew

Lucid Cafe: Claude Monet, Impressionist Painter

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of French impressionist painter Claude Monet. Includes links to selected paintings and picture of the artist.
Website
Other

Prado Museum: Rembrandt: History Painter

For Students 9th - 10th
Past exhibit of Rembrandt's works at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Website contains a video preview of the exhibit in Spanish with English subtitles, practical information about the exhibit, information about Rembrandt, and a video...
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White Pine Pictures

White Pine Pictures: Rene Richard: Painter of the North

For Students 9th - 10th
Rene Richard was a native of Switzerland who worked as a trapper and hunter to avoid the hardships of farming life that his family endured. He came to appreciate Alberta's north and went to France to train as an artist. When he returned,...
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Giorgio De Chirico: Greek/italian Surrealist Painter

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains several links to Giorgio de Chirico's famous paintings.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Edward Hopper, American Scene Painter, 1882 1967

For Students 9th - 10th
You'll find Hopper's famous paintings in museums and galleries across the U.S. and around the world.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Karel Appel: Dutch Abstract Expressionist Painter

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains several links to Karel Appel's famous paintings.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Morris Louis: American Abstract Expressionist Painter

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are links to Louis Morris' famous paintings from galleries and museums around the world.
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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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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Max Beckmann: German Expressionist Painter, 1884 1950

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains several links to museums, galleries and other sources related to Max Beckmann's artwork.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Colorful Painter Fact Families

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Find the missing numbers in the fact family number sentences.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singleton Copley

For Students 9th - 10th
This sample "exhibit" from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a short biography of colonial painter and portrait artist John Singleton Copley. Includes links to six different paintings, each with an informative caption.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto)

For Students 9th - 10th
This ibiblio.org Web Museum site provides information about the life and artwork of Venetian painter, Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768 CE). Contains mostly biographical info, with one example of his artwork, and a brief description.

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