“All in the Family”

Recommended for grades K-2:Learn about family life in other times and cultures around the world in this tour of the museum’s permanent collections. What clues do artists give us about the families they depict? What can we learn

about family life in our own time by comparison?

Social Studies:K.C.1, 1.C.1, 2.C.1K.G.1, 1.G.1, 2.G.1K.H.1, 1.H.1, 2.H.1

W.H.K, W.H.1, W.H.2AH1.HK, AH1.H.1, AH1.H.2

Visual Arts:K.V.1, 1.V.1, 2.V.1

K.CX.1, 1.CX.1, 2.CX.1K.CR.1, 1.CR.1, 2.CR.1

English Language Arts:K.SL.1, K.SL.2, K.SL.3, K.SL.4, K.SL.6 1.SL.1, 1.SL.2, 1.SL.3, 1.SL.4, 1.SL.6 2.SL.1, 2.SL.2, 2.SL.3, 2.SL.4, 2.SL.6

North Carolina Common Core and Essential Standards Correlations:

Pre-Visit Key Questions:• If you were making a portrait of your

family, who would be in the picture?

• Would your family be dressed up? In casual play clothes? What would everyone be doing?

• How can you make a family look happy together? How can you make them look like an important family?

Sir William Beechey, The Oddie Children

(British, 1789)

Christian Friedrich Mayr, Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, (American, 1838)

John Singleton Copley, Sir William Pepperrell (1746-1816) and His Family (American, 1778)

Paul van Somer, William, Lord Cavendish, Later Second Earl of Devonshire (1591-1628), and His Son (left)

Christian, Lady Cavendish, Later Countess of Devonshire (1598-1675), and Her Daughter (right)(Flemish, active in London, 1619)

Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop, The Holy Family with Saint Anne

(Flemish, c. 1630-35 )

Esaias van den Velde, Winter Scene (Dutch, 1614)

Funerary Monument for Sextus Maelius Stabilio, Vesinia Iucunda, and Sextus Maelius Faustus, (Roman, 1st century)

Twin Figures (Ere Ibeji)(Nigerian (Yoruba), late 19th century)

Jacob Andreas Ebersbach, Sabbath Lamp (Dutch, 1793)

Sir David Wilkie, Christopher Columbus in the Convent of La Rábida Explaining His Intended Voyage (British, 1834)

William Merritt Chase, The Artist’s Daughter, Alice

(American, 1899)

Sande Society Helmet Mask (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea,

20th century)

Govert Flinck, The Return of the Prodigal Son(Dutch, c. 1640-42)

Post-Visit Key Questions:• Did you have a favorite work of art

that you saw today? Which one, and why?

• How were some of the family portraits you saw today different from your family’s portrait? (How might they be similar?)