American Art History (Painting; 1870-1900)

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The Belated Kid

William Morris Hunt

• Romanticizing farmlife
• Influenced by France
• People are actually going outside with easels and paints now

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Winslow Homer

The Life Line

• Darker themes

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Winslow Homer

The Gulf Stream

• Nature is ganging up on him
• Rise of science, survival of the fittest

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Thomas Eakins

The Gross Clinic

• Scientific Realism
  
• Not gentile or refined; disturbing
  

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James Whistler

The White Girl

• Cosmopolitan
  
• Refused by the Salon; accepted by "The Salon of the Refused"
  
• Chromatic unity
  

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James Whistler

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket

• Early on abstraction
  
• "Took a lifetime of study"
  

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John Singer Sargent

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

• French, English, Spanish Influence
  
• Feminist Scholars
  

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John Singer Sargent

Madame X

• Flat, individuality
  
• Caused a scandal
  

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Henry O. Tanner

The Seine

African American

Well recognized in France

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Mary Cassatt

The Bath

First American Woman to be recognized internationally

About motherhood & childhood

Flat, interest in Japanese woodblock printing

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William Merritt Chase

In The Studio

• Shows how different studios are and how they are now a more sacred space
  

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Robert Blakelock

Moonlight, Indian Encampment

• Painterly; exploring expressive power of paint
  
• contrast
  

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Albert Ryder

Toilers of the Sea

• used tar, shoeblack, applied paint w/ pallet knife, weird paint
  
• helps art push toward abstraction