Acdec Art

Front 1

850 CE

Back 1

Pueblo spread in Chaco Canyon

Front 2

850 - 1150 CE

Back 2

Pueblo Bonito is built

Front 3

1020 - 1130 CE

Back 3

Pueblo Bonito is enlarged in 3 stages

Front 4

1150 CE

Back 4

Pueblo dispersed and left Chaco Canyon

Front 5

1598

Back 5

Spanish establish first colonial settlement

Front 6

1681

Back 6

William Penn forms Pennsylvania for Quakers

Front 7

1682 or 1683

Back 7

Penn signs Treaty of Shackamaxon with Native Chiefs

Front 8

1720

Back 8

Villasur Expedition is cut off by Natives halting Spanish expansion

Front 9

1720

Back 9

Segesser II is made by unknown artists

Front 10

1737

Back 10

Thomas Penn orchestrates Walking Purchase defrauding Delaware peoples land

Front 11

1750

Back 11

Scipio Moorhead is born

Front 12

1758

Back 12

Philip von Segesser von Brunegg sends 2 hides back to Switzerland (Segesser I & II)

Front 13

1761

Back 13

Philis Wheatley is kidnapped from West Africa and arrives in Boston

Front 14

1767

Back 14

Britain passes the Townshend Acts

Front 15

1767

Back 15

Charles Willson Peale travels to London to study painting with Benjamin West

Front 16

1768

Back 16

John Singleton Copley paints a portrait of Paul Revere

Front 17

1769

Back 17

The British Royal Academy is formed by Joshua Reynolds along with Benjamin West

Front 18

1769-1809

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Thomas Jefferson, Monticello

Front 19

1770

Back 19

The Boston Massacre takes place when an angry mob throws snowballs at British soldiers, who then fire upon the crowd and kill five people.

Front 20

1770

Back 20

After Henry Pelham, The Boston Massacre

Front 21

1771-72

Back 21

Benjamin West, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians

Front 22

1772

Back 22

Waxwork Sculptor Patience Wright moves to England in search of more patrons.

Front 23

1773

Back 23

Frustrated colonists board British ships and dump tea into Boston Harbor.

Front 24

1773

Back 24

After (?) Scipio Moorhead, published by Archibald Bell, Portrait of Phillis Wheatley

Front 25

1773

Back 25

Phillis Wheatley publishes a collection of poems titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

Front 26

1774

Back 26

Boston-based portraitist John Singleton Copley leaves America for England in 1774 and never returns.

Front 27

1776

Back 27

George Washington leads troops across the Delaware River on Christmas Eve, allowing them to surprise Hessian forces and win the Battle of Trenton, a crucial victory in the Revolutionary War.

Front 28

1776-83

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Prudence Punderson, The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality1782Robert Edge Pine, Patience Lovell Wright

Front 29

1782

Back 29

Robert Edge Pine, Patience Lovell Wright

Front 30

1783

Back 30

The Treaty of Paris is signed, marking the end of the American Revolution.

Front 31

1786

Back 31

Charles Willson Peale opens the Peale Museum in Philadelphia.

Front 32

1789

Back 32

George Washington is installed as the first president of the United States.

Front 33

1790

Back 33

The District of Columbia is selected as the site of the United States capital with the passage of the “Residence Act” by Congress.

Front 34

1793

Back 34

Thomas Jefferson proposes a design competition to find an architect for the U.S. Capitol building.

Front 35

1793

Back 35

William Thornton, Charles Bulfinch, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe, United States Capitol

Front 36

1796

Back 36

Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (the Lansdowne Portrait)

Front 37

1799

Back 37

Russians arrive in the Alaskan panhandle, and tensions emerge as they compete with the native people over resources.

Front 38

1800

Back 38

Thomas Jefferson is elected as the third president of the United States.

Front 39

1801

Back 39

Charles Willson Peale leads an expedition to unearth a mastodon skeleton in Newburgh, New York.

Front 40

1804

Back 40

The Tlingit and the Russians fight in the Battle of Sitka. The Russians are victorious and establish a presence at Sitka.

Front 41

1806-08

Back 41

Charles Willson Peale, Exhumation of the Mastodon

Front 42

1812

Back 42

The War of 1812 begins between Britain and America over British violations of maritime law and restrictions on American trade.

Front 43

1814

Back 43

British troops set fire to the U.S. Capitol, heavily damaging the building, which is still under construction.

Front 44

1814

Back 44

Dolley Madison and Paul Jennings rescue a copy of Stuart’s Lansdowne Portrait of Washington from the White House as British forces start setting fire to the city.

Front 45

1815

Back 45

The Treaty of Ghent is ratified, marking the end of the War of 1812.

Front 46

1825

Back 46

Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, and others found the National Academy of Design in New York City to provide training and an exhibition space for young artists.

Front 47

1832

Back 47

Congress commissions Horatio Greenough to sculpt a monument to George Washington for the Capitol in honor of the hundredth anniversary of his birth.

Front 48

1840

Back 48

Horatio Greenough, George Washington

Front 49

1849

Back 49

The name “Pueblo Bonito” is recorded for the first time when the Washington Expedition visits Chaco Canyon.

Front 50

1851

Back 50

Robert S. Duncanson, View of Cincinnati, Ohio from Covington, Kentucky

Front 51

1851

Back 51

Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware

Front 52

1852

Back 52

Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Front 53

1861

Back 53

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” in The Atlantic Monthly

Front 54

1861

Back 54

Confederate troops fire on Fort Sumter, marking the beginning of the Civil War.

Front 55

1863

Back 55

Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

Front 56

1863

Back 56

Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom is installed atop the Capitol dome.

Front 57

1865

Back 57

Robert S. Duncanson travels to England, where his paintings are well received by Lord Alfred Tennyson, among others.

Front 58

1865

Back 58

The Civil War ends when Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.

Front 59

1867

Back 59

Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free1867With the Alaska Purchase, the United States acquires the land from Russia in a deal negotiated by Secretary of State William Seward for 7.2 million dollars.

Front 60

1886

Back 60

Harriet Powers displays her Bible Quilt at the Cotton Fair in Athens, Georgia, where it attracts the attention of a local artist.

Front 61

1890

Back 61

President Benjamin Harrison designates Sitka National Historic Park as Alaska’s first national park.

Front 62

1895-98

Back 62

Harriet Powers, Pictorial Quilt

Front 63

1904

Back 63

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a World’s Fair held in St. Louis, features an Alaska display with totem poles collected from Tlingit and Haida communities.

Front 64

1906

Back 64

President Theodore Roosevelt establishes Chaco Canyon as a national monument.

Front 65

1938

Back 65

As part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Civilian Conservation Corps in Alaska is tasked with repairing and restoring totem poles and other Native American artifacts.

Front 66

1983

Back 66

Gaanax.ádi/Raven Crest Pole, Sitka National Historic Park

Front 67

1983

Back 67

The Segesser hide paintings are acquired by the New Mexico History Museum, allowing the hides to return to the location where they were likely created.

Front 68

2002

Back 68

A museum exhibition brings attention and critical acclaim to a community of African-American quilters from Gee’s Bend, Alabama.