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 **Resources ** St. George are arts resources [|Video Lessons and Workshops] [|Teacher Workshops: Arts] provides presentations and handouts from summer workshop sessions on emergent literacy, music, and poetry; improving visual and verbal literacy; integrating dance and literature; and designing embedded assessments for the K-12 classroom. (Department of Education) [|Teacher Exchange: Curriculum Ideas] offers interdisciplinary curriculum ideas from alumni of the Gallery's Teacher Institute. Each resource offers an explanation of each teachers' curriculum and the resources that he or she used at the Gallery. Topics range from mythology and interdisciplinary learning, to renaissance art and long-distance learning, to visual art and rural elementary schools, and more. (National Gallery of Art) [|Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students] features resources and best practices for combining oral history and community study with dance, theater, music, and visual arts. This site also presents curricular materials from City Lore, an organization that sponsors artist residencies in schools and staff development for teachers in New York and other cities. (CityLore, National Endowment for the Arts) [|Artsedge] helps artists, teachers, and students find and share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum. The site offers a daily news update on what's happening in the arts and education, a standards based curriculum that puts the arts in all disciplines, and a library of planning, research, and contact information for teachers. (The Kennedy Center, Department of Education) [|Interact] work of artists. See slideshows on Joseph Cornell, Ruth Duckworth, and angels in American art. Visit an artist's studio. Learn what it takes to restore a valuable painting. Discover clues to the story behind "The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane" and other paintings. Hear lectures by art critics and sculptor Maya Lin, and roundtables of artists discussing their craft. (American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution) [|Teacher and Student Resources at the National Museum of American Art] offers the "Pueblo Indian Watercolors" teachers guide on interpreting the meaning of artistic images, an interactive guide on one of America's most powerful African-American painters, William H. Johnson, plus other guides and student activity packets. (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution) **Digital Art** [|Art Zone] invites children of all ages to design a virtual mobile; create a collage, painting, or a geometric sculpture online; design and texturize 3-dimensional shapes (and see how artists create these effects without a computer); create a "pixel face"; and orchestrate an array of colorful shapes and patterns online. (National Gallery of Art)  **Visual Art** [|Smithsonian Art and Design] features modern portrait drawings, historical portraits of famous Americans, African and Asian art, modern Japanese prints, works of Latino artists, illustrated manuscripts of Persian lyrical poetry, paintings by James Whistler and Gerhard Richter, lighthouse postcards, lunch containers, Tibetan healing mandalas, photos of famous 20th-century American women, and the Smithsonian's blog, Eye Level, which looks at how art reflects our history and culture. (Smithsonian Institution) [|Twentieth Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection] explores one of the premier private holdings of American modernist paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. It includes masterpieces by Patrick Henry Bruce, Alexander Calder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and others. (National Gallery of Art) [|Arts for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century] offers 14 in-depth studies of works by various artists represented in the National Gallery of Art. The studies include information on the artist, technique, and history behind each painting. (National Gallery of Art) [|The Unfinished Print] investigates the creative process and the workings of the artistic imagination as revealed by the unfinished print. Studies include works by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Cassatt, Villon, Gauguin, and others. (National Gallery of Art) [|The Collection of the National Gallery of Art] is the homepage for one of the finest art collections in the world, illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to today. Visitors can search the collection by specific artist, title, or a combination of criteria, review research on the Gallery's World War II paintings, tour the collection by medium and school, or download a Gallery Guide in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. (National Gallery of Art) [|Van Gogh's Van Goghs] features nine paintings, a history, and a chronology of the life of this ingenious Dutch painter. Van Gogh was 27 years old when he decided to become an artist after unsuccessful attempts at being an art dealer, a teacher, and a clergyman. He taught himself mostly by studying the prints and reproductions he collected. The paintings he produced before his death at age 37 set the direction for many of the expressionist tendencies in 20th century art. (National Gallery of Art) [|Jackson Pollock Web Feature] takes an in-depth look at the life and work of this American original. His drip paintings were the culmination of his synthesis of tradition and modernism. The site examines the artist, his paintings, and his process. (National Gallery of Art) [|Mark Rothko: The Mural Projects] presents nine works by one of America's foremost artists. The works are related to two mural commissions from the 1950s-1960s. Rothko (1903-1970) is closely identified with the New York School, a circle of painters that emerged during the 1940s. He created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting. (National Gallery of Art) [|Edward Ruscha, Lisp, 1968] explores an in-depth study of Edward Ruscha's 1968 painting Lisp. Ruscha, one of the most compelling artists of the last 40 years, is best known for paintings in which words play a central role. Lisp exemplifies his interest in words not only for the images and meanings they suggest, but also as representational imagery and subject matter. (National Gallery of Art) Color Basics Teaching the basics of color? Warm vs. Cool colors, interactive websites, fun ideas. **African American Artists** [|Selected African American Artists] presents several works by African American artists such as Romare Bearden, Willie Cole, and Sam Gilliam. (National Gallery of Art) **World Art** [|National Museum of African Art] presents images from more than 30 exhibitions -- embroideries, textiles, pottery, jewelry, sculptures, palace doors, chairs, headrests, pipes, cups, drinking horns, bowls, drums, photos, currency, icons, and a range of paintings, including contemporary works. (Smithsonian Institution) **People** [|Life of the People: Realistic Prints and Drawings, 1912-1948] presents American prints and drawings relating the condition of working people, American labor and industry, and the experience and achievements of minority groups. The exhibit features African American artists and Mexican muralists, and is particularly rich in images from the 1930s, when the turmoil and uncertainty of the Depression led increasing numbers of artists to turn toward socially relevant subject matter. (Library of Congress) [|When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood] offers a glimpse of childhood across time, cultures, and socioeconomic circumstances. 65 photos show children working in a factory, pretend sword fighting, dancing at ballet school, playing in the street, swimming, watching a parade, and taking shelter in a ditch during an air raid. Photos include Tad Lincoln in a Union uniform, a boy soldier during the Civil War, and Teddy Roosevelt with children. (Library of Congress) [|Oliphant's Anthem] commemorates the recent acquisition of sixty cartoon drawings, sketchbooks, and illustrations by one of America's foremost editorial cartoonists. This exhibition also documents Oliphant's efforts to refine his style through prints, painting, and sculpture that have kept his art fresh and sharpened his commentary. (Library of Congress) [|Enduring Outrage] presents more than 30 cartoons by Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist Herb Block. Published between 1940-1994, the cartoons focus on pollution, government ethics, and other themes that continue to resonate in American society today. (Library of Congress) **Native Americans and Frontier West** [|Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures] takes students on a virtual journey with the artist and ethnologist to meet Native Americans of the 1830s. His portraits, scenes of American Indian life, and writings depict cultures prior to U.S. expansion into tribal territories. The site is designed to enrich the study of U.S. history, geography, and environmental conservation, as well as leadership and character development. (Smithsonian Institution) [|Frederic Remington: The Color of the Night] is the first exhibition devoted to the nocturnes, or night paintings, of one of America's most gifted interpreters of the Frontier West. Twenty-nine paintings are organized around Remington's life and career—his early years as an illustrator, his stint as a war correspondent, and the artistic experiments that led to his nocturnes. These works explore the challenges of painting darkness yet are filled with color and light—moonlight, firelight, and candlelight. (National Gallery of Art) [|Pictures of Native Americans] presents nearly 200 photos and drawings of Native Americans -- agriculture, burial customs, councils, dances, fishing, food preparation, homes, hunting, portraits, pottery, villages, and more. (National Archives and Records Administration) **Civil War** [|Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art] features one of America's treasured 19th century artists. Follow the career and works of this self-taught painter from Civil War battlefields and farmlands to the North Sea fishing village of Cullercoats, the rocky coast of Maine, the Adirondacks, and the Caribbean. See 35 high-resolution images of his paintings. (Zoom in for a closeup of brush strokes and details.) See video clips about his life (1836-1910). (National Gallery of Art) [|Selected Civil War Photographs] contains more than 1,100 photographs, most of which were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady. The collection includes scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle and consequences of battle, portraits of Confederate and Union officers and enlisted men. (Library of Congress) [|Mathew Brady Portraits] survey the life and work of this pioneering photojournalist and portraitist best known for his photographs of the Civil War. Visitors can read about Brady's contributions toward legitimizing photography as an art form, see who Brady photographed, and learn about the photographic processes that he used. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) [|Photojournalism: A record of War] explores how and why war has been photographed and affords students an opportunity to see bias within war reporting. In addition to analyzing war photographs, students learn about Mathew Brady's process for photographing the Civil War and how photographic equipment has improved over time. (Library of Congress) **American Wildlife** [|Selections from Audobon's The Birds of America (1827-1838)] shows 34 paintings from John James Audubon's "The Birds of America," one of the greatest picture books ever produced. (National Gallery of Art) **American Landscape** [|Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, ca. 1851-1991] presents 4000 images of American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. (Library of Congress) [|American Visionaries: Thomas Moran] features paintings and sketches of the noted American landscape painter. Moran's pencil and watercolor field sketches and paintings captured the grandeur and documented the extraordinary terrain and natural features of the Yellowstone region. His artwork was presented to members of Congress by park proponents and helped inspire Congress to establish the National Park System in 1916. (National Park Service) [|Thomas Moran] was one of the major landscape painters of his day, and painted some of America's most prominent natural treasures, including the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone. He also arranged for the first government-sponsored survey of Yellowstone, and his images "were later reported to have played a decisive role in the debate that led to the establishment of Yellowstone as the first national park in March 1872." (National Gallery of Art) [|Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception] unveils striking landscape photographs taken by this famous nineteenth-century American artist (1829 -1916). It includes his best-known studies of Yosemite and other celebrated works from California, Washington, and Oregon. (National Gallery of Art) [|Weir Farm: Home of American Impressionist] examines the farm acquired by painter Alden Weir (1852-1919), where he summered for nearly 40 years (northeast of New City). At a time railroads were expanding, populations were increasing, and America's agrarian system was being replaced by industry, Weir was an artist who found inspiration in the quiet everyday settings of New England, and, in many ways, defined our vision of the American landscape. (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) [|John Wilmerding Collection] is a slideshow of more than 30 paintings and works donated to the Gallery by John Wilmerding, an authority on American art. It includes 19th and early 20th century landscapes and seascapes by Heade and Lane, still lifes by Peto and Decker, figure paintings by Homer and Eakins, and works by Church, Bingham, and Kensett. (National Gallery of Art) [|American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936] consists of 4,500 photographs of natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States taken between 1891 and 1936. These photographs show a wide range of American topography and its forestation, aridity, shifting coastal dune complexes, and watercourses. Comparisons of early photographs with later views highlight changes resulting from natural alterations of the landscape, disturbances from industry and development, and effective natural resource usage. (Library of Congress) [|The Influence of Art on Yellowstone] features paintings, photos, and drawings, many of which contributed to the creation of the nation's first national park. The waterfalls, geysers, rock formations, and vistas in these works helped spread an appreciation of the wonders of Yellowstone. When President Grant signed into law the bill establishing Yellowstone as our first national park in 1872, he set in motion the tradition of preserving other tracts of great beauty for future generations. (National Park Service) [|Gilbert Stuart: Paints the First Five Presidents] looks at the Gibbs-Coolidge paintings, the only surviving complete set of portraits depicting the first five U.S. presidents. Commissioned by Colonel George Gibbs of Rhode Island, it was painted in Boston during the last phase of Stuart's career. The set descended through four generations of the Coolidge family. (National Gallery of Art) [|John Singleton Copley] features one of the foremost artists in colonial America. Virtually self-taught as a portraitist, he created powerful characterizations of his Boston sitters. After he emigrated to London in 1774, Copley began to specialize in narrative scenes from history and joined the influential artistic institution, the Royal Academy of Art. Copley demonstrated a genius, in both his American and British periods, for rendering surface textures and capturing emotional immediacy. (National Gallery of Art) [|Picturing America] aims to introduce students to America's art treasures and promote American history and culture in schools and public libraries. This initiative invites K-12 schools, home school consortia, and public libraries to apply for a set of 20 laminated posters and a teachers resource book. Posters include images of "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," "Washington Crossing the Delaware," and "Looking Down Yosemite Valley," and works by Audubon, Catlin, Benton, Cole, Homer, Rockwell, Wyeth, and others. (National Endowment for the Humanities) [|Panoramic Photography] presents more than 20 panoramic photos: Chattanooga, TN, from a hilltop after the Union Army captured the city (1864); San Francisco after the earthquake (1906); the Panama Canal during its construction (1909); farm buildings at a ranch in Oklahoma (date unknown); Washington, D.C., viewed from atop the Washington Monument (1916); a machine gun battalion before being sent to fight in World War I (1917); and more. (National Archives and Records Administration)
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[|Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials] features music, art, and writing from Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. Learn about Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Robert Blackburn, and others. See photos of jazz greats and other creative Americans. Hear clips from a 1939 recording trip through the South. (Library of Congress) [|The Aaron Copland Collection: Ca. 1900-1990] features music manuscripts, diaries, photos, and biographical materials of this 20th century composer who created distinctive "American" music. (Library of Congress) [|Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folksong: Correspondence 1940-1950] highlights letters Guthrie wrote in the early 1940s after moving to New York City, where he pursued broadcasting and recording careers, met artists and social activists, and gained a reputation as a songwriter and performer. The site includes a biographical essay, a timeline of Guthrie's life, and an encoded finding aid of Guthrie materials at the Library of Congress. (Library of Congress)
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