Great Art for Kids or the BillionDollarArtGallery?

Great Art for Kids is a collection of art both famous and obscure that can be enjoyed as a purely visual experience. Therefore, some famous paintings - such as Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and Goya's The Third of May 1808 - are not included as they may be disturbing and difficult for children to understand without explanation. We have not included nudes and religious images - such as Botticelli's Birth of Venus and da Vinci's The Last Supper - because these are sensitive subjects. If you want a broader collection of Western art, the original BillionDollarArtGallery is available on Amazon and our website billiondollarartgallery.com.

What is Great Art for Kids?

Many owners of the BillionDollarArtGallery requested a special edition for children that could help teach children about great art. Most parents requested that we exclude certain adult themes in classical art.

We quickly recognized that defining this collection would be challenging. We decided upon western art that is suitable for families to enjoy as a purely visual experience. We wanted to engage children, too, so we chose many paintings that include children, and that evoke a story.

By “western” art, we refer not to the American cowboy, but to regions that share a European cultural tradition including the United States and Canada. We may eventually release other collections, but the western cultural tradition has been the focus of the BillionDollarArtGallery so far. The paintings in Great Art for Kids represent many art movements such as Neoclassicism, the Renaissance, and Impressionism. One can easily see how brush strokes, color, form, and the use of light evolve over hundreds of years.

Great Art for Kids includes portraits, genre, abstracts, landscapes, seascapes, animals, trains, ships, mythological subjects, and more.

Many paintings in Great Art for Kids are of people simply living their lives. It's interesting to see how people lived over the centuries: what kind of clothing they wore, how they spent their days at work, leisure or school, their unusual pets and so forth. Children recognize the similarity and differences between themselves and the subjects in the paintings.

You don't need an art education to find paintings compelling and even inspiring. Paintings enable us to connect with people across time. Paintings invite curiosity, creativity, and inquiry, which, we think, are good for everyone – especially children.