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National Museum of American History: Learning Resources
This activity guide accompanies the exhibition America on the Move and provides documents and activities that students can use to build a deeper understanding of how transportation shaped American commerce, communities, landscapes, and...
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National Museum of American History: Transportation in America Before 1876
In 1800, the United States was made up of 16 states, all east of the Appalachians, and most people lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic. Oceans and rivers were the nations' highways, providing the only viable way to travel long...
Library of Congress
Loc: Cultural Landscapes
This collection includes unique maps, such as topographic maps and those used in land surveys. Includes maps created by George Washington.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Robert S. Duncanson
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides in-depth biographical information on Robert S. Duncanson in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Cole: The Oxbow [Pdf]
Analysis of Cole's famous landscape of a bow-shaped bend in a river conveys all the essential qualities that typify works by Hudson River school artists.
University of California
University of California: Bampfa: Yosemite Winter Scene by Albert Bierstadt
Learn about different qualities of landscapes, such as degree of realism versus exaggeration, from this activity that pushes viewers to think about different aspects of Bierstadt's seasonal landscape titled Yosemite Winter Scene.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Hudson River School
Survey the career and paintings of the Hudson River School in American painting (1835-1870).
Martin Lawrence Galleries
Martin Lawrence Galleries: Kerry Hallam
Hallam is a landscape painter who has traveled around the world portraying scenes with vivid and bold colors. However, most of his work is done in the United States. He is heavily inspired by the post-impressionists and it shows in his...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Bruce Crane
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Bruce Crane is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape paintings.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Chambers
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Chambers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape and portraits. His landscape paintings famously depict the Hudson River...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Andrew Dasburg
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Andrew Dasburg is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his integration of Cubism into his landscape paintings.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ernest Fiene
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Ernest Fiene is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Laura Gilpin
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Laura Gilpin is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her landscape paintings.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Birge Harrison
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Birge Harrison is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Homer Dodge Martin
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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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ogden Pleissner
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Ogden Pleissner is described here along with information on his contributions to art through award winning landscape painting.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Elliott Daingerfield
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Elliott Daingerfield is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with landscapes.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charles H. Davis
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Charles H. Davis is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Joseph Jefferson
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Joseph Jefferson is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting. Two examples of his art are also provided.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: H. Bolton Jones
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, H. Bolton Jones is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: John Frederick Kensett
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, John Frederick Kensett is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting which revealed his "subtle and poetic depictions of nature."
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Robert Newell
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Robert Newell is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape photography.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Worthington Whittredge
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Worthington Whittredge is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscapes (and other art forms).
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Henry Durrie
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, George Henry Durrie is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting. His influence is also notable in portrait painting and...