Sixth Grade Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Explore and Learn section. Take a virtual trip to the Metropolitan Museum and learn more about art and artists.
The National Gallery of Art Kids Page - Go to the art zone to create your own art.
The National Museum of African Art - Explore African art at this Smithsonian museum.
The State Hermitage Museum - in St. Petersburg, Russia. Once this was the palace of the Russian rulers. Now it has an incredible collection of art. See if you can find the Faberge Easter eggs.
The Louvre Museum - Famous French art museum. Home of the Mona Lisa - see if you can find her.
The Virtual Diego Rivera Museum -Mexican artist of the twentieth Century. This museum has a nice display of his paintings and a biography.

America has produced a lot of great artists. Take a look at some of the different ways these men and women portrayed America.

Exploring Themes in American Art - A good introduction to American Art by the subject of the picture. You may also find short biographies of American artists here.
Distinguished Artists - Biographies and related web sites for American artists.
American Art Museum - of the Smithsonian Institution. You can look at a lot of American paintings here.
African American Artists at the National Gallery of Art - Biographies and pictures of outstanding artists like Tanner and Pippin.
Gilbert Stuart - One of America's first artists. He painted many portraits of famous Americans during the time of the Revolutionary War and beginning of the US.
Thomas Eakins - Eakins was born in Philadelphia, PA, and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He is considered to be one of the best American artists.
Mary Cassatt - Cassatt was born in Pittsburgh, and grew up in Philadelphia. She spent most of her adult life in France. She painted wonderful pictures of women and children.
Childe Hassam - Visit an exhibit of this great American impressionistic painter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Eight - These were 8 artists who pictured the country during the early years of the 20th century.
The Ashcan School - This was group of artists who painted life in the cities.
Edward Hopper - Hopper painted the life of people in cities.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - An excellent and very historic museum of American art here in Philadelphia.