Online Programs: Landforms
Lesson 1 – Purple Mountains
Landscape paintings are inspired by the out-of-doors. Landscape painting includes landforms such as mountains, plains, valleys, and bodies of water. Landforms help make landscape painting, as well as our earth surface, interesting!
Activity
Choose a landscape and through the National Museum of Wildlife Art, write a letter to the artist who created it.
Briefly describe the painting, then give the artist some feedback:
- What you liked or disliked about the painting.
- Ask him or her 3 questions you may have about the painting.
- What have you found interesting about it?
Herman Herzog
Germany, 1832 – 1932
“Caribou by Mountain Lake” c. 1880′s
Oil on Canvas
Thomas Hill
England, 1829 – 1908
“Great Falls of the Yellowstone” c. 1884
Oil on Canvas
Carl Rungius
Germany, 1869 – 1959
“Lake O’Hara” circa 1935
Oil on Canvas
