LINKING GEOGRAPHY AND ART - INNESS THE LACKAWANNA VALLEY

We use the 1994 publications Geography for Life: National Geography St andards 1994 and the National Arts Standards as resources by which geo graphy and art can be linked in K-4 curricula. After we briefly discus s the respective standards, we feature one landscape painting, George Inness' ''The Lackawanna Valley.'' We provide a simplified chronology of the artist's life history, location of his exhibits, and a selected listing of titles of paintings. We create a template of questions and answers about the artist and the spatial significance of that paintin g in the context of the evolution of the city of Scranton, Pennsylvani a. Detailed information on George Inness as painter and George Scranto n as an entrepreneur, is provided in a series of figures. Thus, throug h analysis of one landscape painting, we document human activity over space and time.