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| A Brush with Wildlife
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This interactive art site features a composition studio, a critique gallery and a section dedicated to the visual illustration of important art concepts. The intent of the site is to "have students interactively experience the artistic process online." The site uses the wildlife art of artist Carl Rungius to accomplish this; cutting edge Web technologies provide support and engagement for students. A page for teachers explaining how to use the content of the site in a cross-curricular fashion completes the site. |
| African American Art
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Here's another great website to help your students celebrate Black History Month. This site showcases one hundred years of African American art achievement . Artwork ranges chronologically from the Civil War era to the Harlem Renaissance, from civil rights struggles to the contemporary period. A click on a work of art produces notes about the author and his work. Art Access provides lesson plans for grades 6 through 12 and activities for families. |
| A. Pintura, Art Detective
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This online art history adventure, "The Case of Grandpa's Painting," teaches students about art history and art composition. In the game, you play a 1940's noir detective with a degree in art history. A distraught woman asks you to identify the artist who made a painting she found in her grandfather's attic. To do so, you must examine paintings by famous artists from Gauguin to Van Gogh. Each example highlights an art concept such as composition, style or subject. The story concludes with an appropriate noirish twist, as the woman's true identity and motives become apparent. Designed for 4th Graders and up. |
| Architect Studio 3D
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Design a house with Frank Lloyd Wright. With Architect Studio 3D, the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust brings to young architects everywhere the exciting process of designing a home ? hands-on. Starting as real architects do, with a client who has lifestyle preferences and a site that has its own environmental considerations, you will use your imagination to design your own architectural solutions. |
| Art Access |
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The Art Institute of Chicago has made lesson plans, family activities and multicultural art resources are available at this site. Areas of study include Ancient Indian Art of the Americas, African American Art, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and Modern and Contemporary Art. |
| Art Capades |
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At this site, students may select a painting by on the the world's best known artists, print it with or without colors, and then either add color to the printout or use the printout as amodel for a free-hand imitation of the artist's work. There are several activities for working with these pictures. You can also view the site in Spanish. Suitable for grades K-9. |
| Conservator's Studio (Seattle Art Museum) |
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Interactively explore four paintings from the Mexican Modernism exhibition through the eyes of a conservator (What's a conservator? You'll find that out too!). You'll have a new perspective on the paintings as well as how they are handled and prepared for display. Includes information about conservator's tools and a glossary. |
| Art Educator (ARTiculation) |
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The objectives of ARTiculation are to encourage you to look at a piece of artwork and to understand what goes into the art making process. Over fifty activities reinforce what has been learned in each section. Main sections include Elements of Art, Principles of Design, and Art Critiquing Process. Also contains a Timeline, Vocabulary Section, and numerous lessons plans and worksheets (Activities) in the Resource section. |
| ArtEdventures
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ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works?while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art! |
| Artist's Toolkit (Minneapolis Institute of Arts) |
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Another production from ArtsConnectEd and it's a good one! Each section (Line, Color, Space, Shape, Balance, Movement/Rhythm) allows students to watch animated demonstrations, view examples, and create their own. Includes an encyclopedia of Visual Elements (line, shape, color, space, and texture) and Visual Principles (balance, emphasis, movement/rhythm). |
| Art Kids Rule
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A great place for playing, learning, and creating. Lots of interactive art activities. |
| Art of Set Design: "The Light in the Piazza"
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This site provides an interesting audio slideshow narrated by the set designer for the Tony Award-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza." Its authors discuss the set designer's art as well as the designer's inspirations for the sets, both the exterior scenes of Florentine piazzas and the interiors of the Uffizi Gallery. The slides include the designer's drawings and models as well as images from an actual performance. |
| ArtsConnected
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ArtsConnected is produced by a partnership between the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center. The purpose of the site is to provide timely, engaging and interactive resources for the study of the arts. The site includes an Artist's toolkit that permits the exploration of various art topics through animations and simulations. The site includes other useful resources, including an Art Playground, a Library & Archives, and a Classroom section that includes a Teacher's Guide and a searchable database of activities. |
| ArtsEdge
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The Kennedy Center created this compelling site, which features all aspects of the arts: music, dance, fine arts, and more. An awesome resource for students, teachers, parents, and art lovers. |
| Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art |
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"Discover the world of wildlife art. Create a story, write a wildlife field guide, or curate a museum exhibit with out artworks. Add excitement with music and sound effects. Then publish your creation on our Web site!" |
| Building Big |
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Students can learn about squeezing, stretching, bending, sliding and twisting through visual tools that they can manipulate. The authors also provide information on loads, materials, and shapes. "Building Big" analyzes tunnels, bridges, domes, skyscrapers, and dams, and provides fact sheets about famous examples of these projects around the world.
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| Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures |
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This site presents and interprets hundreds of George Catlin's artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection. Campfire Stories uses art, artifacts, and primary source texts to bridge American history, geography, art appreciation, environmental conservation, and multicultural studies. The site and its lesson plans were developed in consultation with a panel of teachers. |
| Cartoonster
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Cartoonster's free online tutorials provide step by step instructions for drawing and animating. Techniques are simple and can be done with no special materials. The site is totally flash-driven and full of examples that make sense. |
| Color in Motion
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An interactive site by Claudia Cortes introduces color in a fun way. There are animated figures that explain how you can use colors to communicate and how colors symbolize certain emotions and events. There are activities such as a kaleidescope and a scene maker where you can design a still scene based upon a word given to you. This is an excellent, fun site that is also available in Spanish. |
| Crayola.com
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This site takes awhile to load, but has many good activites with links to Crafts, a Card Creator and Coloring Pages among others. There are separate sections for Educators and Parents. |
| Discover What Art Is...Through the Eyes of Children
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View this large gallery of amazing artwork created by children with disabilities and learn how each of these special artists answers the fundamental question, "What is art?" The responses, often poignant and poetic, are sure to open the eyes of anyone just learning to think about art. This is a terrific site for families seeking ways to introduce their children to art. |
| Doodles, Drafts, and Designs |
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Drawing is a key element in an inventor's skill set. When it comes to the working out of new ideas, inventors turn to pencil and paper. Mixing art and science, this exhibition site showcases a collection of industrial drawings that reflect the knowledge, creativity, and intent of their makers. Unique examples on display include plans for industrial and household products, Tupperware, clothing, architectural monuments, and sports equipment. Also includes biographies of selected inventors, whose life and work tell the story of American ingenuity. |
| Drawing in One-Point Perspective
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Perspective helps to make drawing more realistic, but it's not always easy to get it right. An art teacher and artist created this site to acquaint students of all ages with the subject of one-point perspecive. The site guides you, step by step, through a number of sample drawings. |
| Early American Paintings |
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While the paintings can add depth to the study of U.S. History, the timeline may be the real treasure here as it chronicles the main events from 1671 to 1829. Students can enter the collection by clicking buttons that lead to sections arranged by artist, genre, and place of origin. Students view artwork and read biographies of twenty artists, review information on fifty-three paintings, and get information on twenty-four additional works. Each of the seventy-seven works is illustrated. |
| Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
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This site from Enchanted Learning features hundreds of educational craft projects for children in more than 70 topic areas. Clearly illustrated directions are provided for each project along with lots of other related activity ideas. Suitable for grades 2-7.
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| Exploring Leonardo
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Experience the creations of one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance; Leonardo DaVinci. Although he is best known for his paintings, Leonardo conducted dozens of experiments and created futuristic inventions. |
| Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery |
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Flash-based exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery uses portrait drawings dating from the 1880s to the 1980s to show the ways in which the art of portraiture has been changed by trends in 20th century art. Easy navigation through the show's five sections and audio comments by Wendy Wick Reaves, curator of the exhibition, are available in selected sections. |
| Eyes on Art
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Eyes on Art offers activities designed to help students learn and apply visual arts vocabulary and understand how artistic elements and design techniques function in paintings. The six sections have activities designed to lead in a progression. Beginning students start with gYou Choose,h which allows them to make a connection with different paintings before they discuss what elements make something a good work of art. More advanced students can begin with gDouble Visions,h where they embark more in depth on the adventure of gseeingh a work of art. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright: Art and Technology in Harmony
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Frank Lloyd Wright remains among the great American architects of the 20th century, his work a unique nexus of art, technology, and nature. Even if his works appear on ties and bookmarks, the buildings and texts remain among the most exciting in the field. This site offers students and teachers a Web based perspective on Wright's career complete with extensive links to other resources on the architect and his structures. |
| From Microscopes to Large-Scale Scupture
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National Public Radio makes the connection between art and science by exploring the work of sculptor Kendall Buster. Site visitors can open an audio file to hear an interview with microbiologist-turned-artist Kendall Buster. Buster uses the images she sees through a microscope as inspiration to create her monumental sculptures, which can be walked through and experienced as three-dimensional worlds. |
| Georgia O'Keeffe
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Learn about the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe. Sections include The Young Artist, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz, and The Faraway. The sections include images of some of her unique paintings. |
| Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico |
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The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico, Treasures from the Museo Franz Mayer web site is a collaborative effort between the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and faculty and graduate students at the University of Houston, College of Education, Instructional Technology Program. The works of art are grouped into four sections. The first introduces the many cultures that influenced colonial Mexican art. The next sections focus on art made for the church and for domestic use. The final section introduces new styles inspired by art from ancient Greece and Rome and 18th-century France and England. Resources for Teachers includes a handbook, standards-based lessons, games and activities. There is also a Timeline that provides links to other sources of information. Also in Spanish.
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| Great Buildings Collection
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"This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds." |
| Hands on Crafts for Kids |
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Crafts provide learning opportunities as well as a means of self-expression. Designed with educators in mind, this resource-rich companion site to the public television program Hands on Crafts provides curriculum-based, illustrated, easy-to-follow directions for hundreds of crafts. Suitable for grades 2-6. |
| Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Web site is devoted to understanding modern and contemporary art, particularly art of the past 25 years. The site contains a useful education component, including "Art Interactive" which is targeted at teachers and students that are studying sculpture design. Also present on the site are interactive tours through the various floors of the museum as well as the museum's garden. A teacher resource section further supports educators. |
| How to Draw a Bunny |
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Cartoon artist "Uncle" Fred Lasswell ? author and illustrator of the syndicated comic strip "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" ? provides step-by-step instructions for drawing a bunny. This is an easy-to-follow exercise that emphasizes creative expression and joy in using different art media and materials. |
| Imagination Factory |
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"There is no machinery at The Imagination Factory, and smokestacks don't pollute the air. Instead, we teach children and their caregivers creative ways to recycle by making art. Recycling is one way to minimize or lessen the amount of trash we have to throw away. When we recycle, we make a new product out of waste materials. This process helps save natural resources like trees as well as landfill space and the money needed to get rid of trash."
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| Joseph Wu's Origami Page |
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Origami is the Japanese name for the art of paper folding. However, it has now become a beloved artform for people around the world. This site is the most comprehensive collection of origami materials available on the World Wide Web. |
| Kaleidoscope
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This is a great site for young students to explore design. They can create a kaleidoscope of shapes and adjust the viewing speed. There are other games under Sensory Stuff such as Matisse Cut-Outs and Designer Butterflies.
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| Kidz Draw
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This site has art projects for kids of all ages. Interviews with several working artists are interspersed with the art projects. Suitable for grades K-8. |
| Language of Native American Baskets from the Weaver's View (Smithsonian) |
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Baskets accompanied Indian people throughout their lives. Babies were carried in baskets, meals were prepared and cooked in them, worldly goods were stored in them, and people were buried in them. Today, baskets serve as markers of cultural pride and inheritance. Basketry is a living art. To help illustrate continuity from past to present, each weaver chose four baskets from the Smithsonian collections and paired them with baskets from their own or other Native basket-makers contemporary works. These juxtapositions and the weavers' thoughts on what they tell us, are presented in "The Weavers' View." Links on the top navigation bar and side navigation bars lead to a wealth of information and lots of images of baskets. From the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
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| Learning About Landscapes |
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This site provides great interactives to understand the various components of drawing landscapes. Learn about horizon line, aerial perspective, and linear perspective. See landscapes in a gallery and make your own landscape. |
| Mark Kestler's Imagination Station
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At this site, Mark Kistler, star of the PBS televsion series Imagination Station, shows you how to draw three-dimensional pictures, guiding you step by step through a number of lessons. |
| National Museum of Women in the Arts |
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This link brings to you the permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. There are images of the artwork plus biographies and profiles, organized by century. You can search for a particular female artist as well. This is a great comprehensive resource to use for Women's History Month. |
| PaPa iNk |
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PapaInk is an international online gallery of children's art. The creators of the website provide no-cost archival services to organizations and individuals all over the world, enabling the set-up and building out of permanent galleries of children's art. This is a great service with amazing images. |
| Paper (Exploratorium Magazine) |
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The Exploratorium Magazine Online is a companion to selected issues of the print magazine, providing key articles and activities and including multimedia features. Learn how new materials, new methods and new ideas are transforming traditional origami. Watch videos of a master origami folder create his unique pieces. Learn how to make your own paper and how to fold your own paper airplanes. In Japan, legend says that a person who makes a thousand origami cranes will live a long life. All the more reason to explore this site! |
| Picasso's "The Tragedy": Metamorphosis of a Painting
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An exploration, by the National Gallery of Art, of Pablo Picasso's blue period masterwork "The Tragedy." On close examination, the painting hints at earlier works over which "The Tragedy" was painted. Using tools of the curatorial trade, such as infrared reflectography, the National Gallery exposes what lies beneath the visible painting of the forlorn family seen in "The Tragedy." The site includes an animation and a video that reveal parts of four other works of art previously composed by Picasso before the final painting was made. This is a wonderful examination of the artist's creative journey from initial sketching to a fully realized work.
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| Pigments Through the Ages |
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A site dedicated to paint and color. It contains an overview of art history and how to create a painting (Intro, Planning the Scene, Preparing the canvas, Making paint, Paint picture, Seal the surface, and Other kinds of paint). Use the drop down menu to select specific pigments and get the history, recipes, and color swatch. |
| Renaissance Connection
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Explore Renaissance visual arts and innovations and their role in the making of the modern world. Applying research into learning styles and user engagement, this site is a suite of interactive online activities and resources for middle school students and teachers. |
| Sand Art
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A great site for kids (and teachers) to express their creativity! You can create sand art pictures using colored sand and then save your creation as a graphic. |
| Science ART & Technology
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This site is broken into the categories of Introduction to Science and Art, Art and Astronomy, The Chemistry and Physics of Light and Color, Perception, Light, and Color, Conservation, and Careers in Science, Art and Technology. It is brought to you from the Art Institute of Chicago with Lesson Plans, Student Projects, Self-Guides and more.
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| Silicon Valley Art Museum: Linking Art and Technology
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This excellent site from the Silicon Valley Museum links art with technology. The Exhibition Lobby houses featured exhibits such as "Tradition and Protest," which shows art as a vehicle of social protest. "Through the Green Fuse" is a portfolio of unique photographs of flowers and plants. "Remembrance" is a commemorative work by Asian American artists, and there's more. By clicking to Education and Art Lessons, students and teachers can access 24 art activities such as self-portraits, fanfolds, painting with liquid starch and chalk, salt-clay stick puppets, tube sock dragons, a potato print family, and others, all designed to teach a specific artistic concept. |
| smART Kids
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smART Kids helps students, particularly 7 to 12 year olds, look at art, learn art vocabulary, explore materials, and find out about historic pieces of art. Students can visit an artist's studio, create art, and are prompted to use a journal to record ideas and answer questions about art. Created by the education staff at The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. |
| Spirograph |
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Remember drawing with a Spirograph? You can now create those drawing online. The way this applet works is that you modify the sliding bars on the side to whatever you want and this affects the picture that is displayed. The circle settings control what it looks like and the color settings control what color your spirograph is. You then have some other options too. Like, whether you want a light or dark background, line or point and you can also click the random button to completely randomize the spirograph settings. Have fun! |
| Stella's Jarama II
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Stella's Jarama II presents clues that help students discover what this colorful piece of art was intended to represent. This is presented by the National Gallery of Art. |
| Tall Buildings (Museum of Modern Art)
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Tall Buildings presents twenty-five buildings. Each project was designed within the last decade. Each building views safety, structure, sustainability, and technology. Basic information and photos provided. A nice introduction to state-of-the-art skyscrapers. |
| Timeline of Art History |
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Did you ever wonder how you were possibly going to connect all of that world history? Here is your answer: a timeline of art history from around the world that is linked in a chronological and geographical context, from prehistory to the present. The Metropolitan Museum decided to create a timeline based on its collection to present a great reference and resource tool for those studying art history and related subjects. |
| Toy Maker |
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This site has paper cut-outs that you can print in color, cut out, and glue together to create various toys. Makes a great activity for hand-eye coordination, and practicing with scissors and glue. |
| Trompe L'oeil |
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This site provides numerous examples of famous Trompe l'oeil ("Fool the eye") paintings. Clicking on the title produces a larger image in a separate window. The site also provides a definition for this French term and hyperlinks to an art glossary which includes "linear perspective," "perception," and "realism." |
| Van Gogh at Etten
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This is a beautiful site devoted to Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch artist, his life and times: and especially the time he spent in Etten, a small town in the Netherlands. This excellent site is available in both English and Dutch. |
| Winslow Homer Watercolors: A Summary of Themes and Styles |
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To celebrate Winslow Homer's birthday, which was on April 24, take a tour through three rooms of his works, a total of 15 pictures. The National Gallery of Art provides full screen images and full descriptions of each painting. Clicking on his name provides a biography and even more images of paintings and drawings. |
