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Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aid Winslow Homer

This picture study aid is meant to offer basic information about the artists as well as ready answers

should your student ask about a particular aspect of a piece and the explanation isn’t readily

evident. Ms. Mason emphasized not focusing on strict academic discourse when doing picture study,
but rather simply exposing students to the art itself:

His education should furnish him with whole galleries of mental pictures, pictures by great artists old

and new;––…––in fact, every child should leave school with at least a couple of hundred pictures by
great masters hanging permanently in the halls of his imagination, to say nothing of great buildings,

sculpture, beauty of form and colour in things he sees. Perhaps we might secure at least a hundred

lovely landscapes too,––sunsets, cloudscapes, starlight nights. At any rate he should go forth well
furnished because imagination has the property of magical expansion, the more it holds the more it

will hold. (vol 6 pg 43)

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