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Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aid Whistler

pictures are studied one at a time; that is, children learn, not merely to see a picture but to

look at it, taking in every detail.” (vol 6 pg 214)

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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