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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Japan: Images of a People

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students learn to view Japanese paintings, they make a screen, and they learn about the culture of Japan. There are three lesson plans and all allow all needed materials to be downloaded.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Homer Dodge Martin

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Homer Dodge Martin is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his "poetic, dreamy landscapes" painted from memory.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Walter Ufer

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Walter Ufer is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his impressionist paintings of Native Americans and landscapes.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Tom richey.net: Dutch Golden Age Painting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A PowerPoint presentation created by a history teacher that teachers can use in their classroom. This presentation focuses on the Dutch Golden Age. This presentation focuses on the six major types of painting (historical, landscapes and...
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Website
Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Hood Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed by architect Charles Moore, the Hood Museum of Art has a permanent collection ranging from Ancient and Asian to Modern and Contemporary Art. Of special note are American portrait paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries,...
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Handout
CGFA

Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Grant Wood

For Students 9th - 10th
CGFA provides five paintings in this online gallery: "American Gothic", "Stone City", "Self-Portrait", "Daughters of the Revolution", and "Return from Bohemia". Images only, with the briefest of information about title, date, medium, and...
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Other

Mac Kenzie Art Gallery: James Wilson Morrice

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers images of works by Canadian artist, James Wilson Morrice. Click on the title to view the painting.
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Other

Mac Kenzie Art Gallery: Homer Watson

For Students 9th - 10th
Showcases paintings by Canadian artist, Homer Watson. Click on each title to view the work.
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Handout
Other

Wolf Kahn

For Students 9th - 10th
Once into the site you can choose to take two paths. You can either explore Kahn's pastel art or his paintings. Both take you to a colorful gallery full of works. You can also read his biography from either path.
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Other

Spainarts: Ribera, Jose De

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by Spainarts. Paintings of this famous Spanish artist in the Parado Museum, Madrid, plus a short biography.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Japanese Artist Katsushika Hokusai

For Students 3rd - 8th
A site created by Enchanted Learning about the life and works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849 CE). Contains a short biography, links to more information, an art activity, and a printable coloring page that can also be...
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Activity
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Martin Johnson Heade

For Students 3rd - 8th
"Cattelya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds," by Martin Johnson Heade is shown and analyzed on this site. Also, a short exercise on the five senses, and a word puzzle at the end for students to try.
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Other

Memory Is a Painter: The Art of Grandma Moses

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a short biography with three enlargeable images of the work of Grandma Moses.
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Handout
CGFA

Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

For Students 9th - 10th
This presentation offers a biography of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. There are also links to information about other featured artists.
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Website
National Library of France

National Library of France: Heaven and Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how art through the ages has been influenced by the Earth and the heavens. See paintings that attempted to explain the Earth's creation from a scientific standpoint, sacred architecture that provided a place to worship the heavens,...
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Handout
J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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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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Lesson Plan
The National Gallery (UK)

National Gallery, London: Ite: 'A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning' [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
As part of the National Gallery's Take One Picture project, this PDF offers suggestions for using this Rubens painting in a cross-curricular study in elementary grades.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Van Gogh, the Starry Night

For Students 9th - 10th
Van Gogh's canvas "The Starry Night" is an exceptional work of art, not only in terms of its quality but also within the artist's collection, since in comparison to favored subjects like irises, sunflowers, or wheat fields, night...
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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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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Caspar David Friedrich

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of German Romantic painter Caspar Friedrich, including pictures of some of his paintings.
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The National Gallery (UK)

National Gallery, London: Ite About 'The Hunt in the Forest'

For Students Pre-K - 1st
There is so much going on in this painting by Uccello. These notes about the painting will help you to better understand it and get to know more about the artist.
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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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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Hudson River School

For Students 9th - 10th
Survey the career and paintings of the Hudson River School in American painting (1835-1870).