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.
Other
Art and Architecture: Four Paintings: Pissarro: Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich
Description and analysis of Pissarro's English railway landscape.
Other
Early American Paintings in the Worcester Art Museum
A site with examples and information about early American paintings from 1671-1829. Use the timeline to click on a time period, or click and select by artist, genre, or place of origin. Also includes an extensive bibliography.
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Land Through a Lens
"The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," features 84 photographs from the early years of photography in the 1850s through the 20th century. Included in the collection are works by early, modern, and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Carve That Mountain
In this activity, students further investigate major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, hills, oceans and plateaus). They build a three-dimensional model of a landscape depicting several of these landforms. Once they have built...
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum: "Under the Open Sky": Landscape Sketches by Nineteenth Century
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, ""Under the Open Sky": Landscape Sketches by Nineteenth-Century American Artists" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit.
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.
University of Alberta
Eas: A Gallery of 19th Century Icelandic Landscape Art
This website provides images of 19th century landscapes of various parts of Iceland. Images links to larger images for viewing purposes.
Other
Abc: Landscape and Still Life
With this resource, students will explore how the illusion of depth is created by artists on a flat surface. By examining both a still life and a landscape, students will learn about foreground, middleground, background, and overlapping...
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: In Focus: The Tree
Celebrate a universal symbol of life, the tree, represented by different forms of visual art at this virtual exhibition.
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Teacher's Notes John Constable
These notes provide useful background information about the featured painting 'The Hay Wain' and the artist, John Constable, as well as some suggestions on using the painting in the primary classroom, ideas for activities and...
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Waterwise Landscaper
A conversation with Michelle Pekko-Seymoure, and landscaper who grows plants that need very little water. Learn about this growing practice which helps conserve one of our most important resources.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: La Pines: Design Challenge
Design Challenge takes photos of tricky spots in people's yards and puts them out there for advice from the professionals at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out this pine straw yard in LA.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Sunny Georgia Strip: Design Challenge
Design challenges take photos of tricky spots in people's yards and put them out there for advice from the professionals at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out this sunny Georgia landscape in need of help.
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: Arthur Wesley Dow
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Arthur Wesley Dow is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his paintings, and most notably his landscapes.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Daniel Garber
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Daniel Garber is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Dwight W. Tryon
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Dwight W. Tryon is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscapes and seascapes.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Raphael
In-depth biography of Raphael from Olga's Gallery including his style and links to his works one being "Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de Medici and Luigi de Rossi."
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Native Grasses for Your Native Lawn
Find out how to use native grasses to increase wildlife diversity in a backyard.