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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Angling Your Way Through a Picture

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners look at the geometry in an artwork. In this art history/geometry lesson, students research the artist Charles Sheeler and look at his painting Stacks in Celebration. They find the different types of lines, angles, and...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Factory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Website
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Charles Sheeler

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is presented in a preview format which includes an overview of the work of Charles Sheeler's life, information on his works, and a sampling of the exhibition's themes.
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Website
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Americana" by Charles Sheeler

For Students 9th - 10th
Charles Sheeler's "Americana" is displayed here along with descriptive text and biographical information. The image may be enlarged.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Selected Photographs From the Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A tour of nine of the collections' newer photographs from the National Gallery of Art. These are from 1936 and before from artists like Bill Brandt, Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Charles Sheeler, and more.
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Precisionism

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography of the American Art movement Precisionism which took place during the 1920s and 1930s. Check this site out for more information, artist links and images.
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Activity
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Picturing America: Sheeler: American Landscape [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about and analysis of a characteristic composition by Charles Sheeler.
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Activity
Other

Dayton Art Institute: An American Painting

For Students Pre-K - 1st
American painter Charles Sheeler uses simple shapes to create his painting "Stacks in Celebration." See if you can find the shapes and then follow the lesson plan to create a similar painting of your own.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charles Sheeler

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Charles Sheeler in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Curated OER

Charles Sheeler

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Charles Sheeler.