1. Museum Visit Assignment Writing Example Excerpts The following excerpts are taken from student essays submitted as part of the Museum Response Paper assignment for the Art History Survey. None are perfect (there is no one “perfect” way to write an art history paper) but they give an understanding of how to synthesize analysis of an artwork and the museum environment into the context of a short paper.

2. Introductory paragraph and thesis statement

5. Thesis examples

7. Great formal analysis example – observations articulated using claim or observation + evidence/deeper analysis

8. Enriching the essay by comparing the museum object to ideas/works known from class discussion.

9. Formal analysis example

11. Describing the gallery space/situation of the chosen object…..

12. Museum analysis

13. Conclusion