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Following is a copy of the memo that I sent out last year regarding the Picturing American collection. TO: All teachers From: Diane Briggs Date: 1/21/09

Re: Picturing American Resources

This year Creek View received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant consisted of a series of 40 poster sized works of art, heavily laminated. These pictures relate to all periods of American history and to all aspects of American culture. We will display various pictures throughout the year in the media center, but we encourage you to use them in your classroom as well. There is an extensive teacher’s resource book to assist you in interpreting these works of art. Following is a list of the included works of art:

1a. Pottery and baskets, c. 1100 to c. 1960 -- 1b. Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, San Antonio, Texas, 1755 -- 2a. Paul Revere / John Singleton Copley, 1768 -- 2b. Silver of the 18th, 19th, 20th centuries -- 3a. The midnight ride of Paul Revere / Grant Wood, 1931 -- 3b. George Washington (Lansdowne portrait) / Gilbert Stuart, 1796 -- 4a. Washington crossing the Delaware / Emanuel Leutze, 1851 -- 4b. Benjamin Franklin / Hiram Poweres, 1862 -- 5a. The Oxbow / Thomas Cole, 1836 -- 5b. Cover illustration for The last of the Mohicans / N.C. Wyeth, 1919 -- 6a. American flamingo / John James Audubon, 1838 -- 6b. Catlin painting the portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa-- Mandan / George Catlin, 1861/1869 -- 7a. State Capitol, Columbus, Ohio, 1838-1861 -- 7b. The county election / George Caleb Bingham, 1852 -- 8a. Looking down Yosemite Valley, California / Albert Bierstadt, 1865 -- 8b. "Sans Arc Lakota" ledger book / Black Hawk, 1880-1881 -- 9a. The veteran in a new field / Winslow Homer, 1865 -- 9b. Abraham Lincoln / Alexander Gardner, 1865 -- 10a. Robert Shaw Memorial / Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1884-1897 -- 10b. Quilts : 19th-20th centuries -- 11a. John Biglin in a single scull / Thomas Eakins, c. 1873 -- 11b. Harmony in blue and gold : the peacock room / James McNeill Whistler, 1876-1877 -- 12a. Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler / John Sargent Singer, 1893 -- 12b. Allies Day, May 1917 / Childe Hassam, 1917 -- 13a. Brooklyn Bridge, New York / Walker Evans, 1929 -- 13b. Autumn landscape-- the river of life / Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1923-1924 -- 14a. The boating party / Mary Cassatt, 1893/1894 -- 14b. Brooklyn Bridge / Joseph Stella, c. 1919-1920 -- 15a. American landscape / Charles Sheeler, 1930 -- 15b. Chrysler Building / William Van Alen, 1926-1930 -- 16a. House by the railroad / Edward Hopper, 1925 -- 16b. Fallingwater / Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935-1939 -- 17a. The migration series, no. 57 / Jacob Lawrence, 1940-1941 -- 17b. The dove / Romare Bearden, 1964 -- 18a. The sources of country music / Thomas Hart Benton, 1975 -- 18b. Migrant mother / Dorothea Lange, 1936 -- 19a. Freedom of speech, the Saturday Evening Post / Norman Rockwell, 1943 -- 19b. Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights in 1965 / James karales, 1965 -- 20a. Cityscape I / Richard Diebenkorn, 1963 -- 20b. Ladder for Booker T. Washington / Martin Puryear, 1996.

Picturing America can also be accessed online at []. Lesson plans are available at []. Here are the websites for finding visual art images. –     Media   Center •    **//  Picturing America  //**// ,  //  a collection of posters with a teachers resource book. 40 artworks. http://picturingamerica.neh.gov •    **  Lesson plans,  **  http://edsitement.neh.gov/ –     Art Department •     has 12 artwork posters for each grade level. –     Internet •     Artcyclopedia, http://www.artcyclopedia.com/subjects •     Artsnet Minnesota, http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/theme.html •     Guggenheim   Museum  , Learning Through Art http://www.learningthroughart.org/inquiry_art.php –     Promethean Board •     Shared backgrounds, 25+ images. Promethean Planet