2025-2026 Catalog

ART & POETRY APPRECIATION

Art Masterpieces: ABC Collection

Art Masterpieces: ABC Collection consists of 26 full-color art cards printed on glossy, thick cardstock and an accompanying Teaching Booklet with detailed picture studies. The paintings have been chosen with the goal of instilling in a child an interest in beauty, composition, color, and line. The art cards feature the work of artists such as Renoir, Murillo, El Greco, and Van Gogh and are sized for small hands to study and manipulate. To complement the other topics a child is learning at this age, the art cards and picture studies reinforce the alphabet, colors, shapes, and numbers. Ages 4–6. Teaching Booklet: Softcover, black and white,

1. MuddyAlligators, 1917 , John Singer Sargent(Realism/Impressionism)

“A” for “Alligator”

“B” for “Bubble”

2. The Bubble Boy , 1884, Paul Peel (Academic Style)

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58 pgs. 51/2"×81/2" AMPK-B $7.95 26 Art Cards: Cardstock, full color, 51/2"×81/2" AMPK-C $13.95

3. Two Crabs , 1889, Vincent van Gogh (Post-Impressionism)

“C” for “Crab”

Art Masterpieces: Rhyme-Time Collection

Art Masterpieces: Rhyme-Time Collection is designed to develop a young child’s appreciation for art and poetry. The 15 paintings included in the collection—by artists such as Millet, Homer, and Rubens— are presented alongside traditional children’s rhymes for the student to memorize. The detailed picture studies in the Teaching Booklet encourage close observation of the paintings and instill a recognition of beauty, composition, color, and line. Ages 5–7. Teaching Booklet: Softcover, black and white, 65 pgs. 51/2"×81/2" AMK-B $7.95 Art Prints: 15 full-color prints, 3 sheets of decorated rhymes, and 8 sheets of Mini Masterpieces. 8½"×11" AMK-P $13.95

Art Theory: The floor is covered with bits of yellow wood that the cobbler and boy have carved off in little curls. The artist painted the “curls” with a lot of detail. Can you imagine crunching them under your feet or reaching down to touch them? What do you think they would feel like? What color did the artist use to paint the boy’s clothes? [blue] What color did he use to paint the wooden shoes? [yellow and/or white] These colors are much brighter than the dull colors he used to paint the walls. He painted the boy and the wooden shoes with bright colors to show that they are the part of the painting he wants us to look at the most. Artists learn to use just the right colors for their paintings!

Eight Bells Winslow Homer

Hand your student Sheets 1–4 of the Mini Masterpieces located in the Art Prints packet. Invite him to “search and find” a miniature image of Eight Bells , and then cut and paste it in this box.

Discussion Ideas: How would you like to have wooden shoes? Do you think they’d be comfortable? Would they make a lot of noise when you walked? Would they be hard to run in? What things have you practiced over and over until you are able to do them easily? [riding a bike, pumping yourself on a swing, skipping, whistling, etc.]

The Fog Warning Winslow Homer

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Next, hand your student Sheets 5–8 of the Mini Masterpieces and ask him to search for another, similar painting by the same artist. (If he has trouble identifying it, tell him to look for a painting of a man rowing a boat on the ocean.) Then ask him to cut it out and paste it in this box.

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A sailor went to sea, sea, sea, To see what he could see, see, see. But all that he could see, see, see, Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.

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Decorated Poem for Memorization

Mini Masterpieces

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