Interpretive Resource

Teacher Manual: American Art

Works from the Art Institute of Chicago's comprehensive American collection found in this manual include colonial portraiture, sculpture and landscape art that reflect the young nation in the early 19th century and examples of painting and decorative arts from the turn of the century that signal a new cultural maturity and aesthetic sophistication. Includes fourteen lesson plans provide strategies for using works in the manual to teach across curricula. (©2008)

Tags: 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, American, decorative arts, furniture, landscapes, nature, painting, portraits, sculpture, still life

Curricula: Fine Arts, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Science/History

Grade Levels: Elementary, High School, Middle School

AIC Tours: Art from Many Places, Art Traditions of the United States, Clues from the Past, Learning about America through Art, Self / Family / Community

Interpretive Resources: James McNeill Whistler, Georgia O'Keeffe, José Clemente Orozco, John Singer Sargent, John Townsend, Grant Wood, John Singleton Copley, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, John Bradley Storrs, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, Peter Blume, William James Glackens, Frank Lloyd Wright, Herter Brothers, Thomas Cole, Marsden Hartley, Frederic Edwin Church, William Rush, Frank Memkus, Eldzier Cortor, Raphaelle Peale, Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios, Viktor Schreckengost, Daniel Pabst

Artworks by: James McNeill Whistler, Georgia O'Keeffe, José Clemente Orozco, John Singer Sargent, John Townsend, Grant Wood, John Singleton Copley, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, John Bradley Storrs, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, Peter Blume, William James Glackens, Frank Lloyd Wright, Herter Brothers, Thomas Cole, Marsden Hartley, Frederic Edwin Church, William Rush, Frank Memkus, Eldzier Cortor, Raphaelle Peale, Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios, Viktor Schreckengost, Daniel Pabst