BAM at Home – Women in American Impressionism

BAM AT HOME

Women in American Impressionism:

Three Masterworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Curriculum Summary

BAM has developed these materials as a resource for teachers who are creating educational activities for their students while they are learning from home. This program fulfills national and state high school teaching standards.

Teachers can share the links with students and can assign one lesson, a combination of lessons, or all lessons, as appropriate.

Through this curriculum students will observe and investigate three masterworks by famous American Impressionists. The lessons below are designed for teachers to share directly with students, and include:

conversation guides;
digital images;
at-home activities; and
art-making projects.

Teacher Introduction

1. Student Intro: Terms + Frederick Carl Frieseke

2. Childe Hassam + Primary Sources

In conjunction with BAM’s current exhibition

Women in American Impressionism:
Three Masterworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative.

This program is made possible with support from Art Bridges.

Mary Cassatt, Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla, 1873,
oil on canvas, 25 5/8” x 19 3/4”, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Gift of Victoria Dreyfus.

BAM at Home – Women in American Impressionism

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