Art Appreciation: An Alphabet, Level 1

Art Appreciation: An Alphabet, Level 1 is an easy, no-prep way you can share beautiful artwork with your students and lay the foundation for deeper art studies. Designed for ages 5-10, the unit includes 50 works of art by artists from around the world, including one or more by artists whose names begin with each letter of the alphabet. Each picture study includes the painting along with the name of the painting and artist in simple, traceable print copywork for sharpening handwriting skills. Each study also includes a page where the student can describe what they see in the picture, what they like about the picture, and what they don’t like about the picture. 104 pages total. Ages 5-10.

Artists included are John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Eugène Burnand, Caravaggio, Paul Cézanne, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Albrecht Dürer, Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Eakins, Konstantin Flavitsky, Paul Gauguin, Giotto, Vincent van Gogh, El Greco, Edward Hicks, Winslow Homer, Katsushika Hokusai, Vincenzo Irolli, Jan van Eyck, Gustav Klimt, Emanuel Leutze, Edvard Munch, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Mikhail Nesterov, Oscar-Claude Monet, Charles Willson Peale, Vasily Perov, Nicolas Poussin, Qian Xuan, Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Peter Paul Rubens, Matthias Stom, Vasily Surikov, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James Tissot, Titian, Leo Lesser Ury, Johannes Vermeer, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin West, James McNeill Whistler, Grant Wood, Xavier Mellery, Yeghishe Tadevosyan, and Eugeniusz Zak.