Early American Art

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Early American Art Literature

• Romanticism,
• Realism
• Naturalism

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Romanticism

• Profound Love of Nature
• Individualism
• Fascination with Gothic Supernatural
• Yearning for Picturesque Exotic
• Deep Rooted Idealism
• Passionate Nationalism

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American Literary Romantics

• Edgar Allen Poe Gothic/Mystery
• Annabelle Lee, The Raven
• James Fenimore Cooper Frontier/Sea
• Leather Stocking Tales Last of the Mohicans
• Washington Irving
  Dutch along Hudson
• Rip Van Winkle,
  Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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American Literary Renaissance

• 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter
• 1851 Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
• 1853 Emerson, Representative Men

• 1854 Thoreau, Walden
• 1855 Walt Whitman,
  
  Leaves of Grass

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The Hudson River School

• captured undiluted power of nature
• Painted nations most spectacular and
  undeveloped areas
• Nature was source of wisdom fulfillment.
• Created visual embodiments of ideals of
  Transcendentalism. painting is
  vehicle to reach the mind of
  mankind
• art is agent of moral spiritual
  transformation
  

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Members of Hudson River School

• Thomas Cole-founder
• Asher B. Durand
• George Inness
• Thomas Chambers

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In the CatskillsBy Thomas Cole
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The Ox BowBy Thomas Cole
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Fanciful Landscape by Thomas Doughty
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The Course of Empire The Savage StateThomas
Cole, 1834
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A River GlimpseBy Thomas Doughty
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The Course of Empire The Arcadian or The
Pastoral State - Thomas Cole, 1836
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The Course of Empire ConsummationThomas Cole,
1836
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The Course of Empire DestructionThomas Cole,
1836
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The Course of Empire DesolationThomas Cole,
1836
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Kindred Spirits Asher Durand, 1849
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In Natures WonderlandThomas Doughty, 1835
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Forest in the Morning Lightby Asher Durand
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Stranded ShipBy Asher Durand
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Rising Stormby George Inness
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Niagara Frederic Church, 1857
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CotopaxiBy Fredric Church
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New York HarborBy Fitz Henry Lane
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Boston Harbor from Constitution WharfRobert
Salmon, 1833
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The Constitution in Boston HarborFitz Hugh Lane,
1848-49
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Fur Trappers Descending the MissouriGeorge Caleb
Bingham, 1845
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Early Naturalists

• John James Audubon
• Audubon Society
• John Woodhouse Audubon

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Bald Headed Eagleby John James Audubon
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Wild TurkeyBy John James Audubon
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Blue Yellow Back Warbler By John James Audubon
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White GerfalconsBy John James Audubon
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George Catlin

• American Painter Writer
• My Life Among the Indians
• Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North
  American Indians

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Bird of Thunder by George Catlin
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Black Hawkby George Catlin
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Buffalo Chase With Bows LancesBy George Catlin
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Comanche Lancing Osage By George Catlin
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Mouth of the Platte RiverBy George Catlin
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Buffalo Bulls Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe
- George Caitlin, 1832
2. The Stoic Indian
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Impact of Romanticism

• Beginning of Environmentalism
• Respect for Native Americans
• Nationalism
• Growth of Respect for American Culture