Natural Forces: Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington

Description

March 15th-June 7th 2020

Take your students on a journey to explore how two American artists helped shape a national identity that valued self-reliance, independence, and perseverance.

This exhibition of the art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington will captivate your students and provide opportunities to view both artists’ most iconic paintings and sculptures, as well as explore their careers as wartime reporters and illustrators and their fascination with man’s relationship to wilderness.

Big Idea Classroom Connections:
This exhibition will help explore the following thematic concepts that could connect to your classroom-The Civil War, Spanish American War, American identity, and our connections to the land.

Offered At

Denver Art Museum

Since its founding in 1893, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) has amassed more than 70,000 works of art, one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of world art between Chicago and the West Coast. Internationally known for its holdings of American Indian art, the museum has also assembled an extensive group of pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial art objects now considered one of the finest collections in the world. Other areas of concentration are European and American painting and sculpture, architecture, design and graphics, modern and contemporary, Asian, African, Oceanic, photography, western American and textile art and fashion.

The Denver Art Museum has been a leader in educational programming for more than two decades. The family-friendly approach is fully integrated into the galleries through a unique partnership between curators, designers, and educators for each discipline. A trailblazer in creating innovative opportunities that encourage visitors to interact with the collection, the museum is also known internationally for the way we help our visitors explore art and their own creativity.

Details

Subjects

History, Civil War, Westward Expansion, Social Studies, Art, Visual Arts

Capacity

20 students, 1 chap. per 10 stu.

Duration

60 min.

Activity

Field Trip

Grades

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

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