Curated OER
The American Wilderness? How 19th Century American Artists Viewed the Separation of Civilization and Nature
The attitudes of European settlers toward the American wilderness, as reflected in art and literature, is the focus of this resource packet designed for teachers. Included in the unit overview you will find lists or paintings and...
Curated OER
Overview of World events during the Deerfield Colonial Period
Eighth graders explore the political, social, religious, and economic world and national context in which the events of Deerfield occurred.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Thomas Cole
This fine arts search engine site contains a listing of museums, art galleries, image archives, web sites and articles which contain art work by Thomas Cole.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Thomas Cole
Profiles the life and career of Thomas Cole, an Anglo-American landscape painter who was a founder of the Hudson River School.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Thomas Cole House
Home and studio of painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American painting.
Other
Fine Arts Museum: Teachers' Guide to American Art
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...
Other
Benjamin Champney in the White Mountains
This website provides a brief biography of Benjamin Champney, one of the White Mountain painters. Includes a link for children and links to four of Champney's famous paintings.
Digital History
Digital History: The Artist in American Society
See how the creation of visual art in its many forms developed over the first half of the 19th century. In addition of the painters in the Hudson River School of Art, read about the beautification of natural spaces such as parks, and...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Hudson River School
Survey the career and paintings of the Hudson River School in American painting (1835-1870).