Curated OER
The Changing Landscape
Learners examine the evolution of landscape painting in France from the 17th to the 19th century. They study and compare three landscape paintings, emphasizing space, depth, and the concepts of foreground, middle ground, and background.
Curated OER
How to Haiku: Poetry Reflecting the Feelings in Art
Students discover the elements and subjects of haiku poetry. They observe and describe the objects in a landscape painting. They write a haiku based on the feelings evoked by the painting.
Curated OER
Unrolling the Landscape
Learners create a landscape painting using traditional Chinese techniques. They review Chinese landscape paintings, paint an original landscape and write a poem to go with their picture.
Curated OER
Impressionism
Eighth graders conduct Internet research as well as visit museum Web sites to become acquainted with the period of Impressionism. After completing their research, they sketch ideas for a landscape painting in the Impressionist style...
Curated OER
A Poem for Nature
Students imagine what it would be like to enter a landscape painting and then write a poem on nature.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Art Wonders
Can portraits talk? What's in a landscape? How do artists make furniture? ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo: Landscape Painting
This lesson plan uncovers the "tricks" artists use when creating a landscape painting. Students will explore the work of American artists George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Winslow Homer. One of the activities is in spanish.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Landscape Painting
A Smithsonian website plus lesson plans on the art of landscape painting. Includes details on landscape painting techniques to create the illusion of depth and space as well as information on four landscape artists.
Museum Network (UK)
Museum Network: Landscapes in Art: Explore, Learn, Inspire
The Museum Network presents, "Landscapes in Art: Explore, Learn, Inspire", an interactive exploration of the visual art genre, the landscape. With activities, information about the development of the landscape in painting, examples of...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Lets Net: Electronic Field Trips: Comparing Landscapes
Art unit teaching how to compare landscape paintings. Includes unit description, list of materials, and links to lesson plans.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Chronological Listing of Landscape Painters
ArtCyclopedia's chronological list of landscape painters from the 16th thru the 20th centuries. There are links to the artists' biography and works.
University of California
University of California: Bampfa: Yosemite Winter Scene by Albert Bierstadt
Learn about different qualities of landscapes, such as degree of realism versus exaggeration, from this activity that pushes viewers to think about different aspects of Bierstadt's seasonal landscape titled Yosemite Winter Scene.
Other
De Young Museum: Analyze California Art Objects (I Notice . . . I Wonder . . .)
This pdf file is a multi-discipline analysis of the painting "View of Donner Pass", which guides one through the process of asking questions about an artwork in order to understand it's historic relevance.
Other
Columbus Museum of Art: Curator's View: Nolde's "Sunflowers in the Windstorm"
From the Curator's View series at the Columbua Museum of Art, this is the piece profile on the Emil Nolde paiting 'Sunflowers in the Windstorm'.
Eduweb
Eduweb: Inside Art: An Adventure in Art History
Inside Art lets younger students explore multiple aspects of landscape painting as they jump into a work by Vincent van Gogh. After learning about color, form, genre, and the artist, art adventurers take a short quiz to check their...
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Teacher's Notes Degas
These notes provide useful background information about the featured painting 'Beach Scene' and the artist as well as some suggestions on using the painting in the primary classroom, ideas for activities and cross-curricular links.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Early National Arts and Cultural Independence
Read about the national identity developed in the early 19th century in art and literature. See how both landscape paintings and literature emphasized wilderness themes.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
A short biography of the artist, engraver, and architect Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi from the Getty Museum's collection. Includes a reproduction of a pen-and-ink landscape by the artist, with an accompanying illustration detail and a...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Claude Lorrain, "Pastoral Landscape"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art gives you Claude Lorrain, "Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna". Here you can find a brief discription of the painting and a reproduction of the work.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Louis Paul Dessar
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Louis Paul Dessar is described here along with information on his contributions to art through through his work with portraits and landscapes (though he is primarily known for...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Maria Oakey Dewing
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Maria Oakey Dewing is described here along with information on his contributions to art through her love of landscape painting. Maria was married to the artist Thomas Wilmer...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Henry Ward Ranger
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Henry Ward Ranger is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Childe Hassam
The Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is made possible through a generous gift from the Henry Luce Foundation and presents thirty-five hundred art and craft objects from American Art to the public. This page...
Martin Lawrence Galleries
Martin Lawrence Galleries: Kerry Hallam
Hallam is a landscape painter who has traveled around the world portraying scenes with vivid and bold colors. However, most of his work is done in the United States. He is heavily inspired by the post-impressionists and it shows in his...