American Art

Students compare and contrast two cityscape paintings and discuss the impact of the industrial growth during the turn of the century.  

In this lesson, students compare and contrast Tiffany Studios’ Autumn Landscape—The River of Life window with an Art Nouveau and an Aesthetic movement window from the Ballantine House, in Newark.

Study the immigration of people to the cities of the United States at the turn of the century.  Compare thier experience with you own family history!

Students study The Migration Series, they analyze Lawrence’s The Bo-Lo Game, 1937, a Harlem street scene of children playing with paddleballs, and consider how this scene relates to The Migration Series.

Students analyze Thomas Eakins’s 1873 painting of John Biglin in a Single Scull and William Glackens’s 1918 At the Beach, understand the article about the history of the eight-hour workday, and research and write abo

Students compare Mary Cassatt’s traditional Madonnalike woman with Sargent’s and Gibson’s images of the 1890s New Woman.

Students will create an artwork interpreting the voice of their community and write a comparison of their community’s voice to that of early twentieth-century New York City.

Students compare Minetta Good’s painting of a family selling household items and handmade goods in At the Country Auction with Dorothea Lange’s iconic photograph Migrant Mother.

In this lesson, students learn about 1920s and 1930s design and how architects and artists expressed the Machine Age ideals in their works.

Students compare artworks while learning about life for young boys at the turn of the century.