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What can you tell me about the colors in this artwork? What color do you see the most?
What kind of mood or feelings do the colors give the artwork?
Do you like the colors that are in the artwork?
If you were the artist, would you have used different colors?
Does this scene look like it could be taking place today? Why or why not?
If there are people, are their clothes similar or different from what you are wearing? Why or why not?
Is the scenery similar or different from where you are?
What does the scenery and the clothing or objects tell us about when this artwork was made?
What types of materials did the artist use? Paint? Clay? Wood?
How long do you think it took to make?
How big do you think the artwork is?
Activities
Directions: Use your graphic organizer to help you answer the following questions.
A. Select an artwork. Imagine you can have a conversation with the artist. What questions (at least
three) would you ask him or her?
B. If you were responsible for creating a new title for this painting, what would it be? Provide reasoning
for your choice.
C. Imagine that you are inside the painting. Choose a person or object. Write a journal entry pretending
that you are that person or object. What types of things do you see? What do you feel? What did you
do today? What will you do tomorrow?
Oral Storytelling
A. Working in groups of two, have students create a short story using the selected artwork as inspiration.
Allow students time to share their stories with the class.
Image One
Image Two
Tour Theme
George Washington
ca. 1845
Henry Brintnell Bounetheau
Copy after Gilbert Stuart
watercolor on ivory
6 1/8 x 5 in. (15.6 x 12.7 cm) rectangle
1946.3.15
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1946/1946.3.15_
1a.jpg
St. Nicholas
ca. 1837
Robert Walter Weir
oil on wood
29 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (75.5 x 62.1 cm.)
1977.51
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1977/1977.51_1
a.jpg
Contemporary Craft
Feast Bracelet
1974
Richard Mawdsley
fabricated sterling silver, jade, and pearls
3 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (9.6 x 7.0 x 11.5
cm.)
1983.52
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1983/19
83.52_1a.jpg
Miss Liberty Celebration
1987
Malcah Zeldis
oil on corrugated cardboard
54 1/2 x 36 1/2 in. (138.4 x 92.7 cm)
1988.74.14
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1988/19
88.74.14_1a.jpg
Free Within
Ourselves: African
American Artists
Caf
ca. 1939-1940
William H. Johnson
oil on paperboard
36 1/2 x 28 3/8 in.
1967.59.669
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1967/19
67.59.669_1a.jpg
A House Divided
(Civil War)
Native Americans
Evening Attire
1922
James VanDerZee
gelatin silver print on paper mounted on
paperboard
sheet: 10 x 8 in.
1994.57.3
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1994/1994.57.3_
1a.jpg
A Visit from the Old Mistress
1876
Winslow Homer
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in.
1909.7.28
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1909/1909.7.28_
1a.jpg
El Chandelier
1988
Pepn Osorio
mixed media
60 7/8 x 42 in. (154.6 x 106.7 cm) diam.
1995.40
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1995/1995.40_1
a.jpg
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
(mural study, U.S. Capitol)
1861
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
oil on canvas
33 1/4 x 43 3/8 in. (84.5 x 110.1 cm.)
1931.6.1
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1931/1931.6.1_1
a.jpg
Neighborhood and
Nation
Vaquero
modeled 1980/cast 1990
Luis Jimnez
acrylic urethane, fiberglass, steel
armature
199 x 114 x 67 in.
1990.44
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1990/19
90.44_1a.jpg
Picturing America
Manhattan
1932
Georgia O'Keeffe
oil on canvas
84 3/8 x 48 1/4 in. (214.3 x 122.4 cm.)
1995.3.1
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1995/19
95.3.1_1a.jpg
Reshaping American
Life (The New Deal
Era)
Relief Blues
ca. 1938
O. Louis Guglielmi
tempera on fiberboard
24 x 30 in.
1971.447.34
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1971/19
71.447.34_1a.jpg
Dust Bowl
1933
Alexandre Hogue
oil on canvas
24 x 32 5/8 in. (61 x 82.8 cm)
1969.123
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1969/1969.123_
1a.jpg
To See is to Think:
Visual Literacy
Urbanized America
Young America
(1750-1850)