Picturing Early America: People, Places, and Events, 1770-1870
From the Salem State College website:
"Picturing Early America explores the primary pictorial forms in American visual art from the British colonial settlement to the aftermath of the Civil War.
The three units—portraiture, history painting, and landscape—will include a particular focus on works drawn from NEH's initiative Picturing America. This NEH poster series, which has already been distributed to thousands of schools, captures forty canonical works of American art that reflect the artistic and cultural history of the United States. Through the institute you will come to a deeper understanding of these works in their historical contexts and explore different methods of visual analysis. You will develop strategies and tools to use the Picturing America series and other examples of American art in your classrooms."