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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Alphabetical Listing of Printmakers

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia offers a clickable list of printmakers from the formation of the media to the present--includes links to biographies and works.
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Website
Other

Technique of Intaglio Photogravure Printmaking

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows the process of Photogravure printmaking in step-by-step format. This is an advanced technique and uses graphic arts film and the historical process using chemicals and copper plates.
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Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Snowflake Bentley

For Students 3rd - 5th
This review of "Snowflake Bentley" written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Mary Azarian features related activities for this Caldecott medal winning book.
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 4: 2 D Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This fourth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of two-dimensional art. Students learn about the invention of paper, early perceptions of drawing, how hatching and cross-hatching were used by Michelangelo,...
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Handout
Other

Original Antique Prints and Print Processes

For Students 9th - 10th
Reference and glossary for printmaking with a gallery of print examples connected to the sites home page.
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Unit Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: A Heavenly Craft: Woodcut in Early Printed Books

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibit that represents the evolution of the woodcut as illustration during the late Medieval and early Renaissance period. This exhibition explores the development in technique, composition, perspective, and coloration of the...
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Other

What Is an Original Print?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has descriptions of many printmaking processes as well as links to other printmaking sites and galleries.
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Other

Bud Plant Illustrated Books: Lynd Ward

For Students 3rd - 8th
Lynd Ward is profiled, considered a master American book illustrators, especially for his woodcut novels God's Man, Mad Man's Drum, Sons Without Words, and Vertigo.
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Graphic
Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

For Students 9th - 10th
Explanatory notes and images from an online exhibition of nineteenth-century woodcuts by one of Japan's most-revered artists, Utagawa Hiroshige. "Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" represents over 100 prints of scenes of Tokyo...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Albrecht Durer

For Students 9th - 10th
Albrecht Durer was born in Nuremberg; he was apprenticed to the painter Michel Wolgemut. He traveled widely from 1492 to 1494, visiting Schongauer's workshop in Colmar, the leading German painter and engraver at the time. From 1494-5 he...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Wanda Gag

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Wanda Gag is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her work with prints including lithographs and woodcuts.
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Other

National Gallery of Art: Against the Grain the Woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of 43 woodcuts that echo the same expressionistic style as Frankenthaler's more well known paintings.
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Other

Dr Leslie Project: Lynd Ward

For Students 3rd - 8th
Lynd Ward is considered one of the master book illustrators of his time, especially for his woodcut novels God's Man, Mad Man's Drum, Sons Without Words, and Vertigo.