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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...
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Delaware Art Museum
Specialties of the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington are American painting, English Pre-Raphaelite art, and American illustration. Thumbnails with background information are available for each of the categories in the permanent collection.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America, 1870 1912: Visions of the West
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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards, historical documents, literary texts, and works of art, thematically organized with notes and discussion questions....
University of California
Uc Berkeley Library: Mark Twain Takes on Art
A great look into the thoughts of Mark Twain and how he feels about certain pieces of art. Tongue-in-cheek, playful and fun. A great link between literature and fine arts for the educator!
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Frederic Edwin Church
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Frederic Edwin Church in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
Huntington Library
Huntington L Ibrary: American Art: Federic Edwin Church: Chimborazo (1864)
The painting, Chimborazo, by Frederic E. Church depicts the natural beauty of Ecuador, one of the places this artist traveled to. As explained in this article, it provides an example of landscape art of the 19th century.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Church, Niagara and Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church is most famous for his large, blockbuster--ized landscapes. Among the many he painted, Niagara (1857) and The Heart of the Andes (1863) are justifiably the most famous. View pictures of these paintings and read...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Frederic Edwin Church
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about Frederic Edwin Church.
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Web Gallery of Art: Niagara Falls
An image of "Niagara Falls", created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1857 (Oil n canvas, 108 x 230 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Cross in the Wilderness
An image of "Cross in the Wilderness", created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1857 (Oil on canvas, 41 x 62 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Heart of the Andes
An image of "The Heart of the Andes", created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1859 (Oil on canvas, 169 x 303 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Autumn
An image of "Autumn", created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1875 (Oil on canvas, 39 x 61 cm).