9-12

Stained Glass in the Gilded Age

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.

Elihu Vedder Fire Worshipper, 1885

Grade Level:

  • Middle School

Subject:

  • Art

Collection:

  • American Art

Skills:

  • Making observations

Age:

  • 9-12

Time:

  • 1 hour

The Great Migration

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.

Jacob Lawrence The Bo Lo Game, 1937

Grade Level:

  • Middle School

Subject:

  • Social Studies

Collection:

  • American Art

Skills:

  • Making comparisons

Age:

  • 9-12

Time:

  • 1 hour

"New Woman!" Cassatt, Sargent, Gibson

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

John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Charles Thursby, 1897–98

Grade Level:

  • Middle School

Subject:

  • Social Studies

Collection:

  • American Art

Skills:

  • Drawing conclusions

Age:

  • 9-12

Time:

  • 1 hour

Depression Era Families

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.

Minetta Good At the Country Auction, 1935

Grade Level:

  • Middle School

Subject:

  • Social Studies

Collection:

  • American Art

Skills:

  • Drawing conclusions

Age:

  • 9-12

Art Deco: The U.S. Enters the 1920's

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

Minna Citron Staten Island Ferry, 1937

Grade Level:

  • Middle School

Subject:

  • Social Studies

Collection:

  • American Art

Skills:

  • Making comparisons

Age:

  • 9-12

Looking for Math in Art

By viewing pieces of artwork by students will discover how math is incorporated into artwork.

Louise Nevelson, 
Sky Presence II, 1960, 
Newark Museum Collection

Grade Level:

  • Elementary School

Subject:

  • Math

Collection:

  • American Art

Skills:

  • Critical thinking

Age:

  • 9-12

Time:

  • 1 hour

Memories of a Lifetime - Romare Bearden

Student will use a variety of resources (text, art) to learn about the art of collage.  Students will use the artwork of Romare Bearden and the story “Me and Uncle Romie” by Claire Hartfield as inspiration for creati

Romare Bearden The Dove, 1964 (NEH 17b)

Grade Level:

  • Elementary School

Subject:

  • Art

Collection:

  • American Art

Skills:

  • Creativity

Age:

  • 9-12

Time:

  • 1 hour
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