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Martin Lawrence Galleries

Martin Lawrence Galleries: Bruce Ricker

For Students 9th - 10th
A landscape artist who works both with screenprints and paintings. Ricker calls his style of painting an "epic visionary."
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The National Gallery (UK)

National Gallery, London: Ite: About 'Springtime in Eskdale'

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about this landscape by Scottish artist James McIntosh Patrick. You can view the painting with a special zoom feature to get a close look. There are also example lessons, for teachers, based on the painting.
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Claude Lorrain

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia gives you Claude Lorrain links to museums and galleries on the Internet.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Church, Niagara and Heart of the Andes

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cole, the Oxbow

For Students 9th - 10th
Thomas Cole was best known for his landscape paintings which embodied the beauty and grandeur of the American wilderness during the first half of the nineteenth century. When viewed through the lens of nineteenth-century political...
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
A very nice website with a definition of landscape and several examples of landscape paintings and photographs. Provides links to landscape art from specific historical eras.
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The National Gallery (UK)

National Gallery, London: Ite About 'Nottingham From the East'

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful scene painted by Jan Seberechts in 1695. Come and learn more about the painting and get a zoomed-in look using a special feature.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Alfred Thompson Bricher

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Alfred Thompson Bricher is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings. For the last seventeen years of his life, Bricher...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ernest Fiene

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Ernest Fiene is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: John Frederick Kensett

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, John Frederick Kensett is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting which revealed his "subtle and poetic depictions of nature."
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: William C. Palmer

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, William C. Palmer is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape art depicting American scenes.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Chauncey F. Ryder

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Chauncey F. Ryder is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting and his etching. He also worked as a lithographer.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: George H. Smillie

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, George H. Smillie is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ray Strong

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Ray Strong is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting (primarily of scenes in California).
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Max Weyl

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Max Weyl is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Worthington Whittredge

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Worthington Whittredge is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscapes (and other art forms).
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Other

Post Road Gallery: American Paintings

For Students 9th - 10th
Landscape paintings are included in this collection of American art. Biographical information accompanies the images.
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New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Nicolas Poussin

For Students 9th - 10th
The Catholic Encyclopedia site gives you a rather extensive biography on Nicolas Poussin. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource material dated around...