American Art Family Gallery Guide

AMERICAN ART FAMILY GALLERY GUIDE

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Located on Level 2 of the Nelson-Atkins building.

All gallery numbers are located in the top corners of the marble door frames!

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Kirkwood Hall

Gallery 220e Hall Sculptur

Ross Eugene Braught Tschaikovsky’s Sixth

What do you feel when you look at this painting?

Circle the words you think

describe the painting.

EXCITING

LONELY

QUIET

BOLD

PEACEFUL

COLORFUL

Add more words!

What other words does the painting make you think of?

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Gallery 220

Sven Birger SandzĂŠn The Great Peak

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Look closely at the

brush strokes in the painting. How would you describe them? Now, step back from the painting.

Does it look different from farther away?

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Gallery 218

George Wesley Bellows Pueblo Tesuque, No. 2 Look at the many types of buildings

in the painting. How is each one shaped differently? What are the people doing?

Draw a picture of a building in your city. What do people do in the building in your picture?

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Gallery 218

Thomas Moran Grand Canyon

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Pretend that you’re a famous explorer! Imagine hiking down into a giant canyon like the one in the painting.

What tools would you

need to bring with you?

What animals would you find?

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Gallery 216

William Merritt Chase Beach

What do you see at the beach? Try to find the items below in the painting.

WIND

BUCKET

SUN

WATER

ROCKS

SEASHELL

OCEAN

WAVES

CLOUDS

BOATS

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them in the word search, too? Circle the words you find.

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Draw what you would see and do on your hike.

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Gallery 216

Thomas Moran Venice

Venice is a real city built on the water.

The artist shows us how people get around in a city with no streets. Can you imagine a place where people ride in boats on water instead of in cars on streets? Do you see different types of boats in the painting?

What kind of boat would you ride in?

Draw it!

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Gallery 216

Frederic Edwin Church Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Do you see the camels in the painting? Even more than 100 years after this picture was painted, people still ride camels in Jerusalem as a great way to travel. In the desert a camel is a more reliable companion than a horse or a car!

Draw yourself

riding a camel.

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Gallery 215

John Gadsby Chapman A Lazy Fisherman

You’re probably tired after your adventure seeing the many landscapes that inspired great American painters. Take a break like the young fisherman in the painting and write a postcard to your friends about your trip to the American Art Galleries!

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Learn more about the paintings in this guide by following these links: #1: nelson-atkins.org/Tschaikovsky6 #2: nelson-atkins.org/GreatPeak #3: nelson-atkins.org/PuebloTesuque #4: nelson-atkins.org/GrandCanyon

#5: nelson-atkins.org/Beach #6: nelson-atkins.org/Venice #7: nelson-atkins.org/Jerusalem #8: nelson-atkins.org/LazyFisherman

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Learn more! Check out these books about American art and culture recommended by the Kansas City Public Library.

Read Across America: Americana Books from East to West BEACHES For Younger Readers Wow! Ocean! by Robert Neubecker For Older Readers Beach Babe (Babymouse #3) by Jennifer L. Holm and Matt Holm WIDE OPEN SPACES For Younger Readers The Adventures of Granny Clearwater and Little Critter

by Kimberly Willis Holt and Laura Huliska-Beith For Older Readers Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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MOUNTAINS For Younger Readers The Mountain That Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran and Eric Carle For Older Readers Can You Survive Extreme Mountain Climbing?: An Interactive Survival Adventure

by Matt Doeden THE SOUTHWEST For Younger Readers Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest

by Gerald McDermott For Older Readers The Grand Canyon Burros That Broke (Field Trip Mysteries) by Steve Brezenoff and Marcos Calo

Visit nelson-atkins.org for updates about art classes, performances and hands-on activities for families and children.