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• Classroom use of the art print 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Eishosai Choki (Japanese; late 18th--early 19th century). Woman and Child Catching Fireflies, 1793. Edo period...

  06/01/09 by Colleen Carroll · More from publication

• A new look at America's welcome sign 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thinking how inspired my middle-school students...

  06/01/09 by Cindy Ayala · More from publication

• Learning from exhibitions 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A new traveling exhibition and catalogue produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum features works by 31 of this...

  06/01/09 · More from publication

• Modern masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum 

  The 1950s and '60s were especially stimulating times for American art. While some vanguard artists began to paint or sculpt in the 1930s as...

  06/01/09 by Mark M. Johnson · More from publication

• Clip & save art notes 

  ABOUT THE ARTIST Very little is known about the life of this month's featured artist, the late 18th-century printmaker Eishosai Choki (also...

  06/01/09 by Colleen Carroll · More from publication

• Art print: woman and child catching fireflies 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Eishosai Choki (Japanese; late 18th-early 19th century). Woman and Child Catching Fireflies, 1793. Edo period (1615-1868)....

  06/01/09 by Eishosai Choki · More from publication

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