Free Printable Famous Works of Art and Art History Coloring Pages

Teachers and homeschoolers, looking for hands-on activities for students? If you're teaching art history or fine art, you'll want these interactive lessons. Get to know the works of the masters with these free printable coloring pages.

Sign up for a newsletter with free samples from Dover Publications. Dover is a leader in activity books, challenging adult coloring pages, period literature, vintage reprints and educational coloring books from history. All you need to submit is your email address and you'll get free samples from selected Dover books.

Edupics has free printable coloring pages of famous works of art. Artists include: Klee, Van Gogh, da Vinci, Grimmer, Murillo, Cezanne, Monet, Delacroix, Chardin, Hopper, Fragonard, Caravaggio, Klimt, Brueghel, Kustodiev, Picasso, Gunmann, Renior, Vermeer and more. There are also some aboriginal primitives.

The Art Zone from the National Gallery in Washington D.C. has an interactive online art activity page overflowing with fine art lesson plans and materials on art schools, styles and artists.

Bali Mermaid at Hubpages has eleven free printable Salvadore Dali coloring pages made from images of his work.

About Art History this site has six free printable works of art to color. Coloring pages include: * Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa, Henri Rousseau - The Sleeping Gypsy, Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night and Sunflowers,Grant Wood - American Gothic and Andy Warhol - Marilyn Monroe.

Enchanted Learning publishes a free printable artist's calendar each year. Each month there is a different work of art by various artists. The 2011 calendar features works by John Singer Sargent, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Mary Cassatt, Velasquez, Jan Vermeer, Edgar Degas, Jacques-Louis David, Auguste Rodin, Edvard Munsch and Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (portrait painter- painted Benjamin Franklin in the image used on the American $100 bill).

Calendars for others years are available to print also. These calendars also highlight the birthdays of famous artists born in that month. This tool will help with art history lessons. Visit the Art and Artists for hundreds more free printable artwork coloring pages. Art is organized by artist's name and country of origin. There are various genres of printable art coloring pages: sculpture, oil painting, prints, pen and ink, watercolor, mural and more, primitives and more. If you pay a $20 site fee for personal use (or a school use fee), you'll get unlimited banner-free printables.