Stories Pictures Tell. Book One

By Flora L. Carpenter

This is a school textbook intended for the use of teachers with their classes when they wish to give a lesson to children who are looking for the stories in paintings by famous masters. Miss Carpenter is an expert in this field and says her book will save teachers the effort of studying each painter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Aug 10, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547155515

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Flora L. Carpenter

Stories Pictures Tell. Book One

EAN 8596547155515

DigiCat, 2022

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THE PREFACE

STORIES PICTURES TELL

FEEDING HER BIRDS

CHILDREN OF CHARLES I

FOUR LITTLE SCAMPS ARE WE

MADONNA OF THE CHAIR

MISS BOWLES

TWO MOTHERS AND THEIR FAMILIES

CAN'T YOU TALK?

THE SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS

Instructor in drawing in Waite High School, Toledo, Ohio

Illustrated with Half Tones from

Original Photographs

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Art supervisors in the public schools assign picture-study work in each grade, recommending the study of certain pictures by well-known masters. As Supervisor of Drawing I found that the children enjoyed this work but that the teachers felt incompetent to conduct the lessons as they lacked time to look up the subject and to gather adequate material. Recourse to a great many books was necessary and often while much information could usually be found about the artist, very little was available about his pictures.

Hence I began collecting information about the pictures and preparing the lessons for the teachers just as I would give them myself to pupils of their grade.

My plan does not include many pictures during the year, as this is to be only a part of the art work and is not intended to take the place of drawing.

The lessons in this grade are planned for the usual drawing period of from twenty to thirty minutes, and have been given in that time successfully.

Flora L. Carpenter

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Birds being fed

FEEDING HER BIRDS

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Original Picture: Lille Museum, Lille, France.

Artist: Jean François Millet (zhä

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Birthplace: Gruchy, France.

Dates: Born, 1814; died, 1875.

Questions to arouse interest. What do you see in this picture? What are the children doing? Where do they live? On what are they sitting? Whom can you see behind the house? What is he doing? What do you think the children were doing before their mother called them? why? What does the hen expect? What else do you see in the picture? What time of day do you think it is? Why is this picture called Feeding Her Birds? How many like it? why?

The story of the picture. In a tiny white cottage in a little village in France, lived a painter with his wife and nine children. This painter's name was Jean François Millet, and although quite poor his was a very happy family. Nearly every morning the father worked hard in his garden behind the house, and every afternoon in a queer little old room he called his studio. Here he painted beautiful pictures of places and people he saw and loved. Almost all of his pictures are of the country and of