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Historical painting & presidential portraiture
Three long Saturday sessions on how a nation paints itself (Trumbull, Stuart, Peale) and then students draw a portrait of their own.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
A short intensive in the studio. Students look hard at three famous American paintings, learn what compositional decisions were being made, and produce one graphite portrait from a reference of their choosing.
Every meeting of this class stands on its own. Nothing in week six assumes week five, so a student can join in the middle, take the four weeks that fit around a busy month, and stop when they want to. There is no catching up to do, because there is nothing to be behind on.
That is also why there is no grade here and no such thing as an incomplete. The record keeps what actually happened: the meetings attended live and the recordings watched. A student who came to three meetings has a record of three meetings, not a failure.
Session 1
Trumbull’s Declaration: how a committee meeting becomes a picture.
Session 2
Proportion, planes, and the Stuart Washington.
Session 3
Value, edges, and a completed portrait with critique.
Graphite set & smooth paper
Student supplied
Roughly $18.
None. Any student in the age range can enroll.
The paintings are treated as art first and as national iconography second. Restrained, not flag-waving.
Read our academic philosophyMeetings are recorded and released to enrolled families for fourteen days. Recordings capture the instructor and shared materials; student video is not published.
Full refund up to seven days before the first meeting; inside seven days, everything paid is credited to your Lyceum balance. No refunds or credits once the class has begun. Cancel any section from your parent account.
These describe how this instructor has been trained, reviewed with educators and accessibility specialists. They are not a diagnosis and not a marketing claim.
Students and parents review separately, on different questions, and the two aggregates are never blended. Every review is verified and moderated.
No parent reviews for this class yet.
Reviews from students are published as “Student, age 13”, never with a full name. Photo and short video reviews are supported and moderated before they appear.
American Art
Graphite, watercolor, and the Hudson River School
A real studio class. Students draw and paint the American landscape every single meeting, with Cole, Church and Bierstadt as teachers rather than slides.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$10/wk
$60 in total
$24 for add’l siblings
Art
Look first, then draw · Ages 6–9
A leaf, a shell, a feather, a bird. Mrs. Finch teaches young children to actually look at a thing before they draw it, the one habit that makes every later drawing better.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Literature
Three mornings a week · Ages 6–8
Half an hour of reading aloud together, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the same time each morning. At this age frequency does more than length.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$18/wk
$108 in total
$43.20 for add’l siblings
