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73 Cards in this Set
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John White |
The first artist we have a name to associate with Not only an artist but also the Governor of Roanoke. Tried to settle Ameria with Women and children and made a successful attempt Painted, and drew. Depicted what he saw |
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John White - The Indian Many tattoos or paint, Has a tail, Muscular, Large bow, and quiver. Feather, Hair on the right side of his head has been shaved so they could pull back their bow for war. Not well clothed. Scary/weird to the Elizabethan people at the time |
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John White - Ritual Circle Dancing in a circle, holding instruments such as gourds. Holding branches. Some of the poles have faces carved into them Possible a festival |
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John White - Village Forms a circle. Artistic license with the fence so we could see in. Surrounded by a wall; one way in one way out. Houses look like hay. Different size houses. Have Sleeping benches. Dog, people with bow and arrows Middle:Cooking?Surrounding a fire. Ceremony? Sitting and telling stories? |
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John White - Cooking Cooking/smoking fish. Muscular man. Side of head is shaved. Paint, tattoos. They like to eat and cook fish just like the Europeans |
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John Smibert |
By the 1700's, the colonies are established. Artists start to come over from England. Born in Scotland and moved to Rhode Island. First academically trained painter in the colonies(he went to school to learn art).He painted more than 250 portraits. |
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John Smibert - Francis Brimley Born in England. Moved to Boston.He is eating well. Has a well made suit.He has a wig-stylish.We know he is wealthy.The city in the background is Boston.First landscape in America. He is sitting in his summer home with Boston in the background. He is so rich that he has two homes. Sitting there for hours and hours to get these portraits done; so he is not going to be smiling. |
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John Smibert - Dean Berkeley and His Entourage Not all the people are looking at the painter, Dean Berkeley is looking up towards heaven Dean left London to found a college in Bermuda and he had this painting to commemorate their safe voyage There is a fancy tablecloth and a guy with his hand on a book. The artists just did a standard background because he didn’t know what Bermuda looked like. Baby is creepy |
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Joseph Balckburn |
Starting to see american culture (plays, poetry, no good writers YET). More and more artists coming from England, but they all paint portraits. These people show they are rich by getting their portraits painted. Comes from England. Known for painting portraits. Makes sure you know the people are rich. the people’s clothes are alway elaborate. The background shows status |
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Joseph Blackburn - Isaac Winslow and Family Clothes are FancyLots of laceThe girl is holding fruitThe background is country Country house?The girls apron full of fruit is a symbol of abundance The faces don’t have much personality |
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Joseph Blackburn - Mrs. John Pigott Clothes are elegantMuch laceRichBackground isn’t fancyWearing pearlsShadowing of her hands is a little offHands are little largeHer neck is curved |
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John Singleton Copley |
First American born painter of prominence. No formal trainingPainted this painting below at the age of 20. |
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John Singleton Copley - Mary & Elizabeth Royall the satin and lace tells us they are richFaces are a little more interesting and you can tell who they are.People like this |
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. Thomas Boylston 70 yrs. Old and the leader of Boston societyIn ChipnDale chairWe know she’s rich. He painted her the way she looks (ugly)Realistic |
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John Singleton Copley - Boy with a squirrel Step BrotherSubmitted to competition put nature into the picture with the squirrel. People loved this in LondonShould he go to London and study or Italy where the renaissance started. |
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John Singleton Copley - Paul Revere He is holding a silver teapot. Late 1760s so it is before the midnight ride. Known for being a really good silversmith. Don’t know why this painting was painted, but we do know it ended up in the Revere family later. We know he made silver teapots and we found out when it was painted from that. He wanted it to look like you walked in on Paul Revere doing his work and he just looked up at me. In actuality, this is completely posed. If he was really working, his hands and shirt would be dirty. He would not have been wearing this to work. It’s a beautiful shiny table, when it really should be dirty and gauged. |
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John Singleton Copley - Sam Adams This is supposed to represent the day after the Boston massacre. Leader of the sons of liberty Met in Massachusetts to protest massacreThe british soldiers got hit with snowballs with rocks in them5 bostoniansHe is pointing at the royal charter to say that they have rights.This is a petition that the bostonians drew up to protest the massacre. Not that fancy red suit against dark background Copely wants you focusing on his hands and face. The proportions are a little off, but that is because he wants you to focus on his hands and faceSam Adams doesn’t care about what he looks like. John Hancock paid for this paintingJohn is trying to tell people that he supports the colonist’s rights. You know what side he is on. He is making a political statementThis is the first time he painted something on an exact day. |
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John Singleton Copley - Mercy Otis Warren Wrote the first history book, but has not written it at this point the painting was done.She wrote poetry and plays making fun of the British government. At this point, no one would know who she was at first glance at the painting. Very nice clothing: satin, lace.Next to her is a flowering vine-originally there were roses. Roses you cut, put in a vase, and then they die. He paints nahertia- takes care of a bush symbolizing she was a mom.These flowers can represent fertility; she had five sons.It can represent lose; her sister died the year the painting was done.It can represent patriotism as well. |
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John Singleton Copley - Watson + the Shark Man has fallen overboard. The shark is about to eat him.This happened in Havana, Cuba.Some friends went out in a boat, and young guy who was 14 decided to go swimming.The shark comes up-the painter does not tell us what happens to the boy.What really happened, the guy survived. This is probably the way Copley imagined it.He has taken your imagination and got your attention. |
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Charles Wilson Peale |
No formal training at first, but was trianed by copeley. He wants to paint portraits. |
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Charles Wilson Peale - The Peale Family Some of them are looking at us and some of them are in conversationCharles is in the top left corner painting somethinglittle still life on the table. Family dog |
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Charles Wilson Peale - Edward Lloyd Family This is what americans wantedWe can tell that they are wealthy because of the gold on his jacket, nice clothes, jewelry, their estate, and powdered whigShows They are cultured because of the musical instrument. |
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Charles Wilson Peale - General George Washington before Princeton Before Princeton. Painting is out of proportion. George did not have many victories at this time. After he attacked the Germans - Hessian flags. Canon,bit casual, supposed to be a war hero. |
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Charles Wilson Peale - The Artist in His Museum this is our first true museum in AmericaPainted this one last painting. He is inviting you into his museum. The eyewitness author wanted to see the mastodon (Mammoth) skeleton. Shows a glimpse of the Museum |
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Benjamin West |
History painting was the best level of painting. There is a lot of Biblical scenes, battles, etc…-People painting these types of things because there lessons from it.-Born in America, studied portraits, started doing portraits. No school in America to train him. -Wants to go to Europe. Becomes leader in American History Painting. |
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Benjamin West - Agrippina Landing at Brundisium This is an actual event in Roman history taken out of Tacitus. Poor widow coming back to her husband who has been poisoned. One of the people there is Caligula. He makes sure the background was accurate. King George loved this and payed him to paint more roman historical scenes. |
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Benjamin West - Death of General Wolfe Died in the French and Indian war (Battle of Quebec), Church spire in the background, Greek and roman clothing |
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Benjamin West - General George Washington at the Battle of Trenton Not told anything about how to paint, people wanted a painting of Washington as President not historical |
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Gilbert Stuart |
Born in America. Went to Scotland at 17 to study there with a teacher, then the teacher dies... He finally got home and started painted portraits, but didn’t have training. So he went to London and trained with Benjamin West and gets his own studio and everyone loves him. Portrait paintings are easy money. He flees the country and lives in Ireland for years, gets in debt, then goes back to Philadelphia. |
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington Painted three paintings of him.Third one reminding us that he is a general and commander and chief. There are a lot of references of the full body painting of George. On the right side in dark, indicating the past and the trouble of the past. Washington is looking towards the future and pointing to it. He has turned his back on the past. We are heading to a bright future. He is reminding us that he is the leader of the Continental army, he is president, and so forth. |
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Gilbert Stuart - Thomas Jefferson Had many books to show his scholarNot fancy dressExtravagance is gone |
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Edward Hicks |
Born in Pennsylvania, mom died when he was a baby. At the age of 13, he became an apprentice and made carriages. He did this for 7 years. He hated it. He becomes a Quaker because their religion appealed to him. Quakers were simple, so he stopped making coaches. He paints signs, and little objects he could sell. He then starts to paint paintings. Most popular painter of his time. |
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Edward Hicks - Peaceable Kingdom This scene is from the bible (Isaiah)Basically all at peace and a child is leading themOn the left, Indians and englishmenAlmost every painting has this in it |
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Edward Hicks - William Penn's Treaty Penn was very nice to the indians. He is into everyone being peaceful bc he is a quakerConsidered folk art |
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Thomas Sully |
Next most popular portrait painter. Parents were actors and he was born in England. Gotten formal training in England. People loved his work because he learned a new style in England called Romanticism (Not as harsh and everyone looks good). Romanticism made people look better. |
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Thomas Sully - Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely She was 15 when she was painted. She is wearing an empire waist gown. Long arms, fingers, and neck. Most 15 year olds don’t look like this. Ladies loved to get their paintings done by him. He realized that “Photoshopped” paintings sell. |
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Thomas Sully - Thomas Perkins Still romantic. Not very handsome. Hair is slightly wind blown. Became wealthy but collecting and selling art |
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John James Audubon |
People have started taking an interest in nature after we bought the Louisiana purchase. We start to see this in art. Born in Haiti and raised in France. Came to America and enjoyed drawing birds. He realized that it pretty hard to draw wild birds, so he used specimens of birds to draw. Started a mill and it failed, then he started painting watercolors of birds. 435 of them. Then engraved plates. |
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John James Audubon - Wild Turkey Most famous plate (was originally a watercolor painting)Very common nowadaysAll his paintings were life sizedPut it in it’s natural habitatHe can’t get anyone to publish his bird book, so gets it published in London, which gets him famous. |
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Thomas Cole |
People are fascinated with the West. Artists start to paint pictures of land before industries took over. We get landscape paintings. Founder of landscape paintings. English born, but moved to America. Astounded by all of the scenery around him. Entirely self-taught. He has an idea in his head that painting landscapes is low down on the artistic scale. It just wasn’t what good artist did. He decides to put religious significance to it or ties it to a historical event. |
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Thomas Cole - Last of the Mohicans Indians on the ledgeBased off a book, on the french and indian warSupposed to notice the majesty of natureTension between the indians and EnglishOne sister of an english general is captured, and her fate is being decided |
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Thomas Cole - The Consummation of Empire Goes to Europe to train more, and then comes back to america. Starts a series of paintings called ^^^^ The landscape has been taken over by mankind. Large temples, priests, lots of activity. Showing how mankind has destroyed nature. Has a series of the fall of the empire. Americans don’t really wanna buy this because they want american scenery, not european. |
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Thomas Cole - The Oxbow An actual oxbow in MassachusettsPuts symbolism into it. Raggedy looking trees. Wilderness- what we had. Nicer looking side. Boats, people. We have tamed the wilderness |
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Thomas Cole - The Architect’s Dream An architect commissioned him to paint a painting. The architect is sitting there and dreaming of all the architect of the past. Columns. Pyramids. Church-gothic |
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Asher Durand |
Becomes a landscape painter. Likes to paint lots of trees and peaceful scenes. This is what people wanted. |
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Asher Durand - Kindred Spirits This was commissioned to be a commemorative painting after Thomas Cole died. He is in it. It is glorifying natureVery detailedVery relaxing for people to look at. |
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Asher Durand - Progress Peaceful scene. Left side is the wilderness-what the indians were like before the settlers came. Right side is the bright future showing what America has become. Poles showing technology. School houses, Churches, Factories. This is Manifest Destiny in art. |
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Frederic Edwin Church |
Only student that Thomas Cole instructed. A lot of people asked, but he said no. Church likes detail. Even more detail than Thomas. |
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Frederick Edwin Church - New England Scenery Person and conestoga wagon. Cows getting some water. By the waterfall there is a mill. This is quite detailed with much sharper lines. This looks like for a lot of detail. |
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Frederick Edwin Church - Niagara Falls Very very realistic. People are liking all the detailthe detail is becoming more expected |
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Frederick Edwin Church - Heart of the Andes He wants to see more and more nature so he goes to South America, and sketches as he goes. When he gets home, he paints them. Think he is going to be the next big landscape painting. You can see birds, butterflies and insects. Truly showing us the wilderness around the Andes. Paying attention to detail.There is a cross at the bottom with a peasant showing that religion and nature can coexist and science and religion can coexist. |
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Albert Bierstadt |
German born, but came to america very young. Was trained in america and italy. Decides to go out west with an army expedition and sketches what he sees, then paints it. |
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Albert Bierstadt - Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak This is probably the most famousPeople who have never seen the mountains are amazed by this. Camp with indians in the foreground, starting to have some troubles with settlers, but not muchFirst idea what the West looks like to people who have never been. |
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Albert Bierstadt - Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains This is in California. This is not exactly what they look like. He used some of his imagination to make it more dramatic. Puts deer and ducks in the bottom to give perspective. He wants you to be inspired by the paintings. |
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Albert Bierstadt - Looking down Yosemite Valley Showing you what it is like. There is nothing like this in the east.This is how you see get to see the rest of the country. |
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Albert Bierstadt - Emigrants Crossing the Plains Wagons used to go to the westGoing into the sunsetSunset is supposed to indicate hope and success. There are some animal bones in the foregrounds, indicating that some people who have tried this and failed.There are indians, to show that we are inhabiting the Indians land. |
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George Caleb Bingham |
Some people want something they can relate to. A genre painting. Ordinary people doing ordinary things. Grew up in Virginia, then moved to Missouri. Known for painting life around mississippi rivers. Cincinnati had become a lead center for the arts. Painted these scenes, but with regular people. |
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George Caleb Bingham - Fur Traders Descending the Missouri This a man and his son in their canoe. They have guns and blankets to trade with the Indians to get the furs to trade in St. Louis.They have their pet cat with them-->tied down. It is just an everyday scene. |
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George Caleb Bingham - Jolly Flatboatmen In St. Louis.Got people to model and drew sketches of peopleUses red to draw your eye to the handkerchief and the guy in the red shirt. Also the guy with the red hat smoking a pipe, and the girl in her red skirt. Making sure you are looking at everything. They are having a party |
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Emmanuel Leutze |
Has some success with history painting. Goes back and forth between Europe and Germany. |
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Emmanuel Leutze - Washington Crossing the Delaware Painted this to inspire germans who had been having trouble with revolutions, not America. If the American’s can survive it, the germans can too. He wasn’t there, so he uses A LOT of artistic license. Not quite right. The boats are too small and if Washington would’ve fell in if he stood like that. His hair isn’t white at that time. Has the red cape to draw your eye there. Holding telescope and sword to show his power. 12 men in the boat, and the clothing indicates which region they are from. Guy holding the flag was James Monroe (future president). One guy is Scottish, and there is an African American (even though they wouldn't have fought at this time) and MAYBE a female dressed in men’s clothing. That flag wasn’t invented at that time. It was a snowstorm, and it’s not snowing in the river. When the Delaware river freezes flat, but the Rhine river in Germany freezes the way in the painting. |
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Winslow Homer |
Starts out as an illustrator. Illustrated for a magazine before the Civil War started. He is sent out to draw the scenes of the Civil War. He did not show battlefields or dead bodies. He just showed camp life. |
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Winslow Homer - Prisoners from the Front Takes place during the war. Actual event (Siege of Petersburg). Man on the Far right was a friend of homer’s. They probably have been captured. Shows you the age rage of soldiers and the different attitudes of them. |
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Winslow Homer - Snap the Whip The boys are playing a game called snap the whip.You run around and try to fling the person off at the end. Recess at school.Can see the town in the background.A nice average scene. |
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Winslow Homer - The Veteran In a new Field Reaping the wheat. His canteen and jacket have been thrown down. Showing how the veterans had to go home and immediately work. Gone back to everyday life. Supposed to kinda look like the Grim Reaper. Shows how he was also cutting down people in battle. |
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Winslow Homer - The Cotton Pickers Visited reconstruction south-wanted to see how the slaves lives have been changed. Some say it is optimistic, and some say it is how that have barely gotten away from history. The first time we see African Americans in art. |
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Philip Haas |
Photography is invented in the 1830s and comes to America. People start to take photographs, but not many because it is so new. It is important to us because no one is going to paint a picture of a slave back then. This is how we see photos of slaves. |
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Philip Haas - John Quincy Adams First photo of a President. We know what presidents look like now. |
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Matthew Brady |
Most famous Civil war photographer. Learns Daguerreotype from Samuel Morse, then takes a picture of him. |
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Daguerreotype |
Copper plate that you put into the camera, took the photo, and captured the image. It would be on the copper, you could not make copies though. |
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Matthew Brady - Samuel Morse Brady took a picture of him with the telegraph |
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Matthew Brady - Abraham Lincoln werk lincoln werk |
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Matthew Brady - Battle Fields He took photos right after the battle, and shows what actually happens, rather than showing the battle after all the bodies have been cleaned up. |
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