Teaching History With Art

Who am I?

Why do I use Art? Almost all students can connect to it Helps students to visualize otherwise

difficult concepts Helps students remember content

because it is easier to remember an image!

My students like it!

Art as a “Hook”

Diego Rivera, The Disembarkation at Vera Cruz, 1951

John Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus,1847

Art to Illustrate a Concept

George Innes Lackawanna Valley,1855

Winslow Homer Visit from the Old Mistress 1876

Complete the speech and thought bubbles to indicate what these women are saying to each other AND thinking about each other.

Norman LewisEvening Rendezvous1962

Art as a Review

John GastAmerican Progress1872

Robert Rauschenberg,Signs, 1970.

Art as an Assessment

Based on what we learned today, what’s wrong with this picture? Identify at least THREE specific errors. Why might the artist have painted the scene this way?

As an AssessmentCircle FOUR items in the painting that

show industrialization and urban growth

William Louis Sonntag, Jr. The Bowery at Night1895

The Bowery, 1895PHOTOGRAPH PAINTING

As an AssessmentDescribe the scene in this picture from

the perspective of any of the characters – include at least THREE specific facts you

learned today about the Civil Rights Movement.

Norman RockwellThe Problem We All Live With1963