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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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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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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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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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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: 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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Curated OER

National Park Service: American Visionaries: Thomas Moran

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit features the works of landscape artist Thomas Moran, whose paintings inspired the creation of Yellowstone Park in 1916. A gallery of images of his paintings is included.
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Early American Paintings in the Worcester Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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George Eastman Museum

Photographers of the American West

For Students 9th - 10th
Original pictures of Westward expansion. Great activities and discussion questions for cross-curricular learning.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The American Spirit: Defending and Building Our Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
Given background information about selected historical figures, students will be able to analyze the importance and contributions of women and people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups to the national identity and the...
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Other

Amon Carter Museum: Encountering Texas (1846 1856)

For Students 9th - 10th
Three early American artists captured the landscape of the unknown frontier which slowly became the state of Texas.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: William C. Palmer

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, William C. Palmer is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape art depicting American scenes.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: William Kienbusch

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, William Kienbusch is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape paintings, most of which displayed an abstract quality.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edward W. Redfield

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Edward W. Redfield 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: George H. Smillie

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, George H. Smillie 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: Ray Strong

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Ray Strong is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting (primarily of scenes in California).
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Post Road Gallery: American Paintings

For Students 9th - 10th
Landscape paintings are included in this collection of American art. Biographical information accompanies the images.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Chauncey F. Ryder

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Chauncey F. Ryder is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting and his etching. He also worked as a lithographer.