Interpretive Resource

Website: Art Access: American Art to 1900

Art Access is an online resource for educators, parents, and students that features selected artworks from the Art Institute's collection of American art to 1900. Historical information, enlargeable images, lesson plans, family activities, maps, and more help to contextualize the artworks and provide opportunities for learning in the classroom and at home.

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

Grade Levels: Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Middle School

Interpretive Resources: James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, William James Glackens, William Sidney Mount, William Michael Harnett, Tiffany and Company, John Goddard, Frederic Edwin Church, Harriet Hosmer, John Quincy Adams Ward

Artworks by: James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, William James Glackens, William Sidney Mount, William Michael Harnett, Tiffany and Company, John Goddard, Frederic Edwin Church, Harriet Hosmer, John Quincy Adams Ward