FAMOUS PAINTINGS VOLUME 1

Famous Paintings was printed by Funk & Wagnalls Company in 1913.
The paintings are "Selected from the World's Great Galleries and Reproduced in Colour"
The introduction to the book is by G.K. Chesterton . The pictures are in the public domain.
If you choose to use one of them I would appreciate a link back to this page.
A lot of time and effort has gone into making them available to you.

This Art Gallery is a companion page to

Art Appreciation Lessons

Art Gallery, Famous Paintings Volume 2

We have a new game "Name the Painting".

ART GALLERY

M. Bompard A Prayer to the Madonna	Botticelli The Madonna and Child	Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid	Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones The Mill
Jean Charles Cazin Ishmael	John Constable Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill	John Crome On the Skirts of the Forest	Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret The Blessed Bread
Theophile Emanuel Duverger Alone	C.W. Furse Diana of the Uplands	W.H. Gore "'Listed"	Peter Graham A Rainy Day
Jean Baptiste Greuze The Listening Girl	Sir James Guthrie A Highland Funeral	Frans Hals A Man With a Glove In His Hand	Hans Holbein the Younger The Ambassadors
Henry Holiday Dante and Beatrice	Sir Edwin Landseer Suspense	Sir Edwin Landseer A Naughty Child	H.H. La Thangue Mowing Bracken
Sir Thomas Lawrence Caroline of Brunswick, Queen of George IV.	G.D. Leslie Sun and Moon Flowers	J. Seymour Lucas Flirtation	Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier The Print Collector
Jean Francois Millet The Angelus	Jean Francois Millet Going to Work	Sir William Quiller Orchardson The Farmer's Daughter	Ralph Peacock Ethel
Rembrandt His Own Portrait	Sir Joshua Reynolds The Infant Samuel	Sir Joshua Reynolds The Strawberry Girl	George Romney The Parson's Daughter
W. Dendy Sadler A Good Story	W. Dendy Sadler Friday	William Small The Last Match	J.M. Swan On the Alert, Lioness and Cubs
J.M.W. Turner Peace: Burial at Sea of the Body of Sir David Wilkie	J.M.W. Turner Rain Steam and Speed The Great Western Railway	Velazquez Portrait of a Spanish Lady "La Femme a L'Eventail"	Frederick Walker The Vagrants
George Frederick Watts Hope	James McNeill Whistler My Mother	Anders Zorn A Fisherman	Art Appreciation 48 Lessons for Kids Free printable worksheets and activities (Different Series)

Jigsaw Puzzles

Thanks to my cousin Brian Perkins for the use of the book Famous Paintings.
You can contact him for rare and hard-to-find books at:
Back Door Book Store
3071 Wabash
Ft. Worth, Texas 76109
817-921-3292
email: briiansr (then use the symbol for "at") yahoo.com


Thanks to my son, Elton, for help with some of the pictures.
Visit him for stock photos and inspirational pictures.

My mother, Vera Griffin was also a well-known artist in West Texas.

The Art Museum: A Sticker Story Coloring Book By Sylvia Walker / Dover Publications From boarding the bus to shopping for souvenirs, 30 lively illustrations to color follow a school field trip to an art museum. Plus, kids can also match 23 stickers of the world's greatest art masterpieces to their frames in the book - or decorate notebooks, school projects, and more. A complete list of titles and artists appears on the inside back cover. Art: Over 2500 Works from Cave to Contemporary By DK Publishing Inc. Comprehensive in scope and scale, this gorgeous DK ART book provides a visually rich journey through humanity's development. Beginning with a short section of how artists use color, composition, light, shade and other technical elements of art, each art movement and school is detailed with more than 700 artists from all periods and cultures profiled. Picture-packed pages allow you to examine key examples of their work and see how they changed over their lifetime. Close-ups of famous artwork also allow the reader to analyze the creation of these masterpieces with graphics, overlays and highlighted detail. Chronologically organized from prehistory through contemporary art, traditional painting and sculpture work is included alongside masks, goldwork, carvings, panels, and other forms of artistic expression. 612 pages, indexed, hardcover with dust jacket. Masterpiece of the Month: An Art Appreaciation Program for Grades K-5 By Jennifer Thomas / Teacher Created Resources Students learn about artistic concepts by looking at great works of art. Follow-up art activities using crayons, chalk, tempera paint, and more reinforce learning.