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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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Other

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.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Louis Paul Dessar

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Louis Paul Dessar is described here along with information on his contributions to art through through his work with portraits and landscapes (though he is primarily known for...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Daniel Garber

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Daniel Garber 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: Maria Oakey Dewing

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Maria Oakey Dewing is described here along with information on his contributions to art through her love of landscape painting. Maria was married to the artist Thomas Wilmer...
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Huntington Library

Huntington L Ibrary: American Art: Federic Edwin Church: Chimborazo (1864)

For Students 9th - 10th
The painting, Chimborazo, by Frederic E. Church depicts the natural beauty of Ecuador, one of the places this artist traveled to. As explained in this article, it provides an example of landscape art of the 19th century.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: John Wood Dodge

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, John Wood Dodge is described here along with information on his contributions to art through portraits and landscapes.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Arthur Wesley Dow

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Arthur Wesley Dow is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his paintings, and most notably his landscapes.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Fuller

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

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Carleton E. Watkins

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

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Childe Hassam

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is made possible through a generous gift from the Henry Luce Foundation and presents thirty-five hundred art and craft objects from American Art to the public. This page...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Artists, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The artwork of four nineteenth-century free blacks expressed in portraits, landscapes, sculpture, and photography. Links to works from Joshua Johnson, Robert Scott Duncanson, Edmonia Lewis, and Augustus Washington are provided.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Eyeing America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Robert Cottingham takes you on a visual tour across America with his works of art. View his complete collection that showcases commercial signs.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: William Carlos Williams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the Modern American Poetry index site for William Carlos Williams (1883-1963 CE). From this site you can click on links that take you to analysis of the author's works as well as a link to full text versions of additional poems.
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Conservation and Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of maps of historical significance which show changes in the landscape due to many factors. Included are maps showing specific conservation projects. Maps are printable.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Alfred Thompson Bricher

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Alfred Thompson Bricher is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings. For the last seventeen years of his life, Bricher...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: John F. Carlson

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

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Max Weyl

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

American Studies Online: Theme Parks and Mass Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by American Studies Online. The Disney concept and philosophy has had a widespread influence on American life beyond the amusement parks. This article shows the influence has even spread to shopping malls and...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Three Ways to Make a Scene

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will analyze landscapes by three artists. After learning about the horizon line, they will create their own painted and collaged landscapes inspired by one of the artists.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten

For Students 9th - 10th
Carl Van Vechten was a photographer between 1932 and 1964. Here the LOC provides his portrait photography work of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance as well as a small collection of his American landscapes.
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Other

American Society of Landscape Architects: Green Roof

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive experience showcases environmental and economic benefits of a green roof. Take a virtual tour of a real green roof and learn about a career in landscape architecture. Downloadable workbook is available for students, while...