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Go to Gallery 220 Located on Level 2 of the Nelson-Atkins building. All gallery numbers are located in the top corners of the marble door frames!

Prepare to travel to new and faraway places. Use your imagination and go on a creative art journey! Explore and think about what you would see, hear, smell and feel if you were really there!

Ross Eugene Braught Tschaikovsky’s Sixth

What do you feel when you look at this painting?

Circle the words you think describe the painting.

Are we there yet?

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Add more words! What other words does the painting make you think of?

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Destination #1

EXCITING LONELY

QUIET BOLD

PEACEFUL COLORFUL

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Look closely at the brush strokes in the painting. How would you describe them? Now, step back from the painting. Does it look different from farther away?

Sven Birger SandzénThe Great Peak

Look at the many types of buildings in the painting. How is each one shaped differently? What are the people doing?

George Wesley Bellows Pueblo Tesuque, No. 2

Draw a picture of a building in your city. What do people do in the building in your picture?

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Destination #3

Destination #2

What do you see at the beach? Try to fi nd the items below in the painting.

William Merritt Chase Beach

WIND BUCKET SUN WATER ROCKS

SEASHELL OCEAN WAVES CLOUDS BOATS

F I S H R O A N L W A T E Q O G Z

U B A E L S U N I A D B O A T S C

Q J T X A Z R G I V A N E P D O L

O A D G B T N S Z E R O C K S T O

W A V B O A D U M S N S E A B L U

I D G T E Q T N W U B U K H C R D

N R E C L O A M S E A S H E L L S

D F O N B U C K E T V L J P Y A R

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Pretend that you’re a famous explorer! Imagine hiking down into a giant canyon like the one in the painting.

What tools would you need to bring with you?

What animals would you fi nd?

Thomas MoranGrand Canyon

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Can you fi nd

them in the word search, too? Circle

the words you fi nd.

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Destination #4

Destination #5

Thomas Moran Venice

Venice is a real city built on the water. The artist shows us how people get around in a city with no streets. Can you imagine a place where people ride in boats on water instead of in cars on streets? Do you see different types of boats in the painting?

What kind of boat would you ride in? Draw it!

Gallery 216

Draw what you would see and do on your hike.

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Destination #6

Do you see the camels in the painting? Even more than 100 years after this picture was painted, people still ride camels in Jerusalem as a great way to travel. In the desert a camel is a more reliable companion than a horse or a car!

Draw yourself riding a camel.

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Mobile Guide #607

Frederic Edwin Church Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

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Destination #7

John Gadsby ChapmanA Lazy Fisherman

You’re probably tired after your adventure seeing the many landscapes that inspired great American painters. Take a break like the young fi sherman in the painting and write a postcard to your friends about your trip to the American Art Galleries!

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#1: nelson-atkins.org/Tschaikovsky6 #5: nelson-atkins.org/Beach

#2: nelson-atkins.org/GreatPeak #6: nelson-atkins.org/Venice

#3: nelson-atkins.org/PuebloTesuque #7: nelson-atkins.org/Jerusalem

#4: nelson-atkins.org/GrandCanyon #8: nelson-atkins.org/LazyFisherman

Learn more about the paintings in this guide by following these links:

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Destination #8

45th & Oak, Kansas City, Missouri

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BEACHESFor Younger ReadersWow! Ocean! by Robert Neubecker

For Older ReadersBeach Babe (Babymouse #3) by Jennifer L. Holm and Matt Holm

WIDE OPEN SPACESFor Younger ReadersThe Adventures of Granny Clearwater and Little Critter by Kimberly Willis Holt and Laura Huliska-Beith

For Older ReadersLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

MOUNTAINSFor Younger ReadersThe Mountain That Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran and Eric Carle

For Older ReadersCan You Survive Extreme Mountain Climbing?: An Interactive Survival Adventure by Matt Doeden

THE SOUTHWESTFor Younger ReadersCoyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest by Gerald McDermott

For Older ReadersThe Grand Canyon Burros That Broke (Field Trip Mysteries) by Steve Brezenoff and Marcos Calo

Learn more! Check out these books about American art and culture recommended by the Kansas City Public Library.

Read Across America: Americana Books from East to West

Visit nelson-atkins.org for updates about art classes, performances and hands-on activities for families and children.

Hope you

had a

good trip!