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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Brushed With Light: American Landscape Watercolors

For Students 9th - 10th
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit, a description of the show and sections with audio clips,...
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit.
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The Newberry Library

Newberry: Commodities and the Transformation of the American Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning resource uses primary source material to explore the ways in which commodities are extracted, produced, and exchanged and how those processes have shaped the physical and cultural landscape of North America.
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Harvard University

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
This photographic collection has over 2,000 images of American landscapes and architectural features built during the period 1850-1920. You can search by keyword, subject, by name, or by state.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 15: The Changing American Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The rise of American cities between 1865 and 1900 was spawned by the industrial revolution. Technological advancements in industry and transportation fathered the enormous growth of large cities across the United States. This led to the...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo: Landscape Painting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan uncovers the "tricks" artists use when creating a landscape painting. Students will explore the work of American artists George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Winslow Homer. One of the activities is in spanish.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Land Through a Lens

For Students 9th - 10th
"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...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Treasures to Go: Young America

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of fifty-seven landscapes and portraits that reveal visions of early America and its birth as a new nation as rendered by early American artists.
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Other

Asian Nation:the Landscape of Asian America

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a one stop informational resource on everything to do with today's diverse Asian American community. Provides a broad overview of the many different issues that this culture must face. Latest headlines are continuously updated.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Frank Lloyd Wright Designs for an American Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
A site covering Frank Lloyd Wright from 1922-1932. Specific information on how his architecture was designed with the environment in mind. The Exhibition was at the Library of Congress from 1966 until 1997.
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Other

Mississippi Museum of Art: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is the largest museum in the state, and has the largest collection of art by and about Mississippians. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings,...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will learn about horizon lines in traditional landscapes and portraits, shadows and reflected light, and John Pfahl's Altered Landscapes. They will also create their own altered landscape photographs and portraits and write...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography

For Teachers 9th - 10th
John Pfahl used creativity, strategic placement of objects, changing vantage points, and a sense of humor to create his Altered Landscape series of photographs. Students will learn about his artist statements and methods and then create...
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Other

Memorial Hall Museum: Turns of the Century

For Students 9th - 10th
Turns of the Century chronicles three centuries, in side-by-side fashion, of American family life, of Native Americans, of African Americans, of newcomers to America, and of the American landscape.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Americans Adopt the Auto

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition explores the role of transportation in American history focusing on the way the automobile went from being a plaything of the rich to a major factor in the American transportation landscape.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade K: American Flag

For Teachers K
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they identify and provide examples of American symbols, with an emphasis on the American Flag and the connection to Flag Day. Students engage with the sources...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Richard Mayhew

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

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Alexander H. Wyant

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

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Henry Ward Ranger

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

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lure of the West

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibit from the Smithsonian includes 70 paintings and sculptures by famous American Western artists such as Catlin, Baker, Bierstadt, and Remington.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Young America in Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An historical site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum that shows the growth of America through art work by over 45 artists. This site by the Smithsonian Institute has fascinating images showing American artists depicting the...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: On the Interstate: I 10: 1956 1990

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the ways that the interstates changed commerce, travel, and where we live. The interstates have profoundly changed American landscapes and lives, and the way business is conducted. I-10 sweeps almost 2,500 miles across the...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Dwight W. Tryon

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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PBS

Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: City Landscape by Joan Mitchell

For Students 9th - 10th
Webpage describing City Landscape, a painting by Joan Mitchell from the Art Institute of Chicago. Image of art provided as well as an option of a larger version or a detail viewer that can be navigated. Also includes a quote about the...