Teaching Resources

Watercolor and pencil on paper. Three black-haired acrobats in red suits are swinging through the air.

Includes a poster of a work of art from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, informative text, classroom applications, and a bibliography. Walter Ellison portrays a train station in his native Georgia and comments on the racial climate in the United States in the 1930s. White southerners board trains for vacation destinations, while African Americans journey northward to seek jobs during the great migration of rural blacks to urban centers.

White tree trunk with traces of green. The tree’s foliage is made up of bright and dark yellows. Focused more on color than on form.

An Indian medicine man leads his tribe through the plains.

Presents the world of American illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) through his scenes of everyday life in Small town America.

Matches and match boxes create a graphic design.

A band of Blackfeet Indians is traveling through a field with their Medicine Man in the foreground. He is sitting on his pinto horse and gazing proudly into the distance ahead of him. He is decorated with colorful paint and costume.

Includes a poster of a work of art from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, informative text, classroom applications, and a bibliography. In this haunting portrait, Ivan Albright used a precise painting technique that encourages us to look atall the details that convey Ida’s persona, such as clothing, accessories, and setting.

Watercolor on beige paper. A monumental landscape is captured in this simple configuration of nocturnal blue and green colors. Demonstrates light beginning to appear on a flat horizon. The color in this third edition is not segmented like that of the first edition.

Watercolor on beige paper. A monumental landscape is captured in this simple configuration of nocturnal blue and green colors. The color in this second edition is not segmented like that of the first edition.