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Plymouth City Museum Art Gallery: Cottonian Collection: Reynolds

For Students 9th - 10th
Access materials in the Plymouth's collections (portraits, prints, memorabilia) by and related to Joshua Reynolds, including pages from the artist's appointment books.
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National Museum in Warsaw (Poland)

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Museum in Warsaw is actually a collection of five museums: the modern National Museum, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture at the Krolikarnia Palace, the Poster Museum at Wilanow, Radziwill Palace in Nieborow and Romantic...
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art, Photographs

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful collection of photographs. Teachers and students can explore dozens of images done through a variety of photographic techniques. Clicking on the image will pull up a brief description of the work's history and content.
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Arizona State University

Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Artistic Collaborations

For Students 9th - 10th
A small collection of prints made by famous artists who generally work in mediums outside of printmaking. This collection comes from a collaborative printing workshop (ULAE) in New York.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Evolution of Ukiyo E and Woodblock Prints

For Students 9th - 10th
Ukiyo-e began as hand-painted scrolls and screens of everyday life in Japan. They became so popular, they were mass-produced using carved wooden blocks. Read the evolution of this artform and view pictures in this essay.
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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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University of Kansas: Mezzotint

For Students 9th - 10th
In describing the process of mezzotint, this site uses John Martin's Fall of Babylon as an example. The process involves artistically scraping and burnishing a metal plate to form art when printed.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site about Robert Blackburn's Printmaking workshops in existence since the 1940's. A Great bio on Blackburn as well as information on the exhibition at the Library of Congress.
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Library of Congress

Loc: On the Cutting Edge Exhibition Home

For Students 9th - 10th
A vast collection of contemporary Japanese prints done by women artists.
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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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N.y. Public Library: Scientific and Medical Illustration

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough account of the use of illustration in medical and scientific texts. Gives a complete history of book illustration and print media. Includes great printmaking vocabulary.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Kiyonobu

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the prints by Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaker Kiyonobu (1664-1729 CE). There are links to museums with images and articles on the artist.
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Huntington Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
From the home page of the Huntington Museum of Art, choose any one of several entry points into the museum's collections of folk art, prints, sculpture, silver, touma (Islamic prayer rugs), and glass.
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Northumberland Rock Art Matching Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
Match a set of rubbings to the correct photograph of the rock the design came from. Can be quite challenging.
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Northwestern University

Northwestern University Library: Hogarth and Eighteenth Century Print Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Browse this large collection of Hogarth's prints to find examples of all of his favorite subjects, including eighteenth-century views of London.
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The Fitzwilliam Museum: Vive La Difference!: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the presentation of French and English stereotypes through satirical works. View prints created by the French and prints created by the English.
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University of Hawai'i

Uh: Jose Guadalupe Posada: My Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit from The University of Hawaii Art Gallery provides many images of Posada's woodcuts as well as insights into life in Mexico.
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University of Hawai'i

Jose Guadalupe Posada: My Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit from The University of Hawaii Art Gallery provides many images of Posada's woodcuts as well as insights into life in Mexico.
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Abstract Expressionist New York

For Students 9th - 10th
Blockbuster exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art underscores the relationship between New York City and the explosion of creative activity among the artists who lived there in the postwar period. Learn why New York became the center of...
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Southern Methodist University: Bridwell Library: Works of Albrecht Durer

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition of seventy prints by German-born artist Albrecht Durer demonstrates his skill as an artist and engraver. With many examples of his religious subjects and portraits.
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae

For Students 9th - 10th
Printed images of the major architectural monuments and sculptures of ancient Rome spread knowledge of classical antiquity throughout Europe. The "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae" (the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence") represents a...
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PBS

Art21: Bruce Nauman

For Students 9th - 10th
Profile of the artist Bruce Nauman with links to art work, videos clips, and interviews.
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California State University

Uc, Chico: Vegetable Print Patterns (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A lesson plan that describes how a classic method of printmaking can be used to teach primary-school children about pattern, color, and the work of Henri Matisse.

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