Art Appreciation: Dogs in Art Mini Unit, Level 1

Art Appreciation: Dogs in Art Mini Unit, 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 25 works of art by 25 artists from around the world, each featuring dogs in various settings. 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. 53 pages total. Ages 5-10.

Artists included are Abbott Handerson Thayer, Anton Romako, August Friedrich Schenck, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Boris Kustodiev, Charles Sprague Pearce, Constant Troyon, George Morland, Gerard Terborch, Jacob Ochtervelt, James Ward, Konstantin Makovsky, Martiros Sarian, Nathan Altman, Nikolaos Lytras, Paul Gauguin, Peder Severin Kroyer, Philip Wilson Steer, Pierre Bonnard, Saverio della Gatta, Theo van Doesburg, Thomas Gainsborough, Tomás Yepes, Vsevolod Maksymovych, and Winslow Homer.