Drawing conclusions

"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
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