• Romare Bearden's The Dove—A Meeting of Vision and Sound: Interactive

    Created February 25, 2011

  • Martin Puryear's "Ladder for Booker T. Washington"

    Created February 24, 2011

  • Martin Puryear's "Ladder for Booker T. Washington"

    Created February 24, 2011

    Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer, and sculptor, is born

    Submitted by edsite.admin on January 10, 2011 - 12:46pm
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    July 25, 1844
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    Picturing America
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    Eakins Vision of American Recreation -- "In the Good Old Sumertime"
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    Jacob Lawrence, American painter, is born

    Submitted by Anonymous on January 6, 2011 - 1:50pm
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    September 7, 1917
    Related Lesson Plans: 
    Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask
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    Picturing America
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    17-A. Jacob Lawrence. Migrations Series, no. 57, 1940-1941
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    American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

    A radio series which focuses on the fundamental works in American cultural history featuring one-hour programs that span our history: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, I Love Lucy, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

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  • Emmanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware

    Created November 26, 2010
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    Rembrandt and Collections of His Art in America

    This website is a product of a National Endowment for the Humanities Curriculum Development grant. It offers an online resource for teaching about the art of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn focusing on those works held in collections across the United States.

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