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American Art at the Core of Learning

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Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

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Terra Collection Initiative: American Encounters: Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution

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Terra Collection Initiative: America: Painting a Nation

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A painting of an expanse of land that has been deforested, with stumps of trees scattered in the foreground. It is dusk, and a mountain rises in the distance. — Sanford Robinson Gifford, Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.57

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Terra Collection Initiative: Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

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Common Core Questions for Discussing Artworks

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Terra Collection Initiative: American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life

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Terra Collection Initiative: Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” and the Art of Invention

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Terra Collection Initiative: Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North

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