Picturing America is a K-12 teaching tool created by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The tool consists of 40 art-historic images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative objects and architecture that represent several centuries of U.S. history. Used singly, chronologically or thematically, the images provide gateways to cross-curriculum learning in social studies, history, writing, literature, geography, civics, and other subjects.
The first deadline for public and private schools, public libraries and homeschooling consortiums to apply for the Picturing America package (printed images and lesson plans) has passed; a second will open in August of 2008. Individual homeschooling families and autodidacts, while not eligible, can take heart. Thanks to the generosity of the NEH, all 40 images are here for you, and each is accompanied by a link to its archived lesson plan at the Picturing America website.
The first deadline for public and private schools, public libraries and homeschooling consortiums to apply for the Picturing America package (printed images and lesson plans) has passed; a second will open in August of 2008. Individual homeschooling families and autodidacts, while not eligible, can take heart. Thanks to the generosity of the NEH, all 40 images are here for you, and each is accompanied by a link to its archived lesson plan at the Picturing America website.
- Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1929, printed ca. 1970© The Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; used with permission
- Autumn Landscape, 1923–24Photograph © 1997 The Metropolitan Museum of Art; used with permission
- The Boating Party, 1893-94Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; used with permission
- Brooklyn Bridge, ca. 1919-20Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; used with permission
- American Landscape, 1930© The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY; used with permission
- The Chrysler Building, 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, 1926–1930Composite image courtesy of the National Endowment for the Humanities; used with permission
- House by the Railroad, 1925© The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY; used with permission
- Fallingwater (Kaufmann House, Mill Run, Pa.), 1935–39Photograph courtesy of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy; used with permission
- The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57, 1940–41© 2008 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle; used with permission
- The Dove, 1964© Estate of Romare Bearden Trusts; used with permission
- The Sources of Country Music, 1975© Thomas Hart Benton and Rita P. Benton Testamentary Trusts; used with permission
- Migrant Mother and Children, February 1936Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.; used with permssion
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