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# An Eye for Art

**Focusing on Great Artists and Their Work**

This family-oriented art resource introduces children to more than 50 great artists and their work, with corresponding activities and explorations that inspire artistic development, focused looking, and creative writing. Grouped around seven general themes, the book highlights works from different time periods to encourage comparisons among them. We hope the book will inspire children to develop "an eye for art."

Studying Nature

Exploring Places

Examining Portraits

Telling Stories

Observing Everyday Life

Questioning Traditions

Playing with Space

# Timeline of Artists

Click an artist's name to download the PDF.

Fra Angelico, c. 1395–1455 (Italian)Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1399/1400–1464 (Netherlandish)Fra Filippo Lippi, c. 1406–1469 (Italian)Leonardo da Vinci, 1452–c. 1520 (Italian)Raphael, 1483–1520 (Italian)Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1526–1593 (Italian)Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1577–1640 (Flemish)Osias Beert the Elder, c. 1580–1624 (Flemish)Hendrick Avercamp,1585–1634 (Dutch)Willem Claesz Heda, 1593/1594–1680 (Dutch)Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606–1669 (Dutch)Jan Davidsz de Heem, 1606–1683/1684 (Dutch)Jan Steen, 1625/1626–1679 (Dutch)Johannes Vermeer, 1632–1675 (Dutch)Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1691–1765 (Italian)Canaletto, 1697–1768 (Italian)Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1714–1789 (French)John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815 (American)Jacques-Louis David, 1748–1825 (French)Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755 – 1842 (French)Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851 (British)John Constable, 1776–1837 (British)John James Audubon, 1785–1851 (American)George Catlin, 1796–1872 (American)Martin Johnson Heade, 1819–1904 (American)Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1823–1900 (American)Édouard Manet, 1832–1883 (French)Edgar Degas, 1834–1917 (French)Winslow Homer, 1836–1910 (American)Thomas Moran, 1837–1926 (American)Claude Monet, 1840–1926 (French)Mary Cassatt, 1844–1926 (American)Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903 (French)Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848–1907 (American)Vincent van Gogh, 1853–1890 (Dutch)Henri Matisse, 1869–1954 (French)André Derain, 1880–1954 (French)Pablo Picasso, 1881–1973 (Spanish)George Bellows, 1882–1925 (American)Diego Rivera, 1886–1957 (Mexican)Georgia O’Keeffe, 1887–1986 (American)Joan Miró, 1893–1983 (Spanish)Alexander Calder, 1898–1976 (American)Romare Bearden, 1911–1988 (American)Jackson Pollock, 1912–1956 (American)Jacob Lawrence, 1917–2000 (American)Wayne Thiebaud, born 1920 (American)Roy Lichtenstein, 1923–1997 (American)Dan Flavin, 1933–1996 (American)Chuck Close, born 1940 (American)Martin Puryear, born 1941 (American)Andy Goldsworthy, born 1956 (British)

Paperback editions of *An Eye for Art* are available for purchase.

We are grateful to the MSST Foundation for its generosity in making this publication possible and especially to Nancy Furlotti for her personal enthusiasm for the Gallery's mission to engage family audiences. See full llist of acknowledgments.

We greatly value your feedback about this resource. Please email us at [email protected].

Overview

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John Constable (6.6MB)

Martin Johnson Heade and John James Audubon (7.2MB)

Claude Monet (14.9MB)

Georgia O'Keeffe (10.9MB)

Andy Goldsworthy (6MB)

Overview

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Rembrandt van Rijn (10MB)

Canaletto and Giovanni Paolo Panini (11MB)

Jasper Francis Cropsey (12MB)

Thomas Moran and George Catlin (11MB)

Henri Matisse and André Derain (11MB)

George Bellows (14MB)

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Leonardo da Vinci (11MB)

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun and Jacques-Louis David (8MB)

Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin (14MB)

Chuck Close (7MB)

Overview

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Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi (11MB)

Rogier van der Weyden and Raphael (13MB)

Peter Paul Rubens (9MB)

John Singleton Copley and Claude-Joseph Vernet (8MB)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (9MB)

Jacob Lawrence (8MB)

Overview

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Jan Steen and Hendrick Avercamp (14MB)

Osias Beert the Elder, Willem Claesz Heda, and Jan Davidsz de Heem (15MB)

Édouard Manet (10MB)

Mary Cassatt (11MB)

Winslow Homer (12MB)

Wayne Thiebaud (7MB)

Overview

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo (12MB)

Johannes Vermeer (8MB)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (7MB)

Pablo Picasso (11MB)

Joan Miró (14MB)

Diego Rivera (11MB)

Romare Bearden (9MB)

Jackson Pollock (19MB)

Roy Lichtenstein (8MB)

Overview

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Edgar Degas (8MB)

Alexander Calder (6MB)

Dan Flavin (3MB)

Martin Puryear (6MB)

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