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51 Cards in this Set
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Sherman Monument |
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Sherman Monument:
Who made it? Where is it? How is it symbolic of the Northern victory over the South? |
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Central Park Gilded to flaunt wealth Trampling the pine bough, symbol of Georgia Angel.Nike representation |
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Shaw Memorial |
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Shaw Memorial
Who made it? Where is it? Why is it significant? |
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Boston? Individualized black soldiers visual rhythm of sleeping bags huge almost completely in the round horse unity in patterns implies that the men are unified in purpose, etc |
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McKim, Mead and White
Boston Public Library |
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Boston Public Library
Who made it? Whas' da big deal? |
McKim, Mead, and White
(Charles McKim and Stanford Mead) I have no idea. |
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Richard Morris Hunt
The Marble House |
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The Marble House
Who made it? Where is it? Why's it significant? |
Richard Morris Hunt
Newport, RI Cottages for the SUPER wealthy |
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Richard Morris Hunt
The Breakers |
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The Breakers
Who done made it? Where it be? Why it mattuh? |
Richard Morris Hunt
Newport, RI "cottages" |
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John Singer Sargent
Isabella Stewart Gardner |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner
Who was she? Why was she important? Who painted her portrait? |
A wealthy Bostonian woman who epitomized the new desire to collect European art with her new American money
museum in Boston |
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James McNeill Whistler
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1 |
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Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
Who did it? Why is it important? |
James McNeill Whistler
art for art's sake "devoid" of narrative, moral emphasis on paint and application thereof |
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Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
Who did it? Why is it important? |
James McNeill Whistler
art for art's sake "devoid" of narrative, moral emphasis on paint and application thereof |
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James McNeill Whistler
Who was he, why was he a big deal, and what pieces did he do? |
American painter who lived in Europe
brought Japanese influence to painting first American artist famous in Europe piece titles like song names Arrangement in Grey and Black The White Girl (Symphony in White, No. 1) Nocturne in Blue and Gold, Old Battersea Bridge |
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James McNeill Whistler
Symphony in White, no. 1 The White Girl |
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James McNeill Whistler
Nocturne in Blue and Gold, Old Battersea Bridge |
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Who wrote "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?
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Mark Twain
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The White Girl, Symphony in White No. 1
Who painted it? Why is it significant? |
James McNeill Whistler
emphasis on color misuse of symbols -white:mistress -lily:upside down |
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Nocturne in Blue and Gold
Who painted it? Why is it significant? |
James McNeill Whistler
effect of the light on water impression of colors |
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John Singer Sargent
El Jaleo |
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John Singer Sargent
Madame X |
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John and Washington Roebling
Brooklyn Bridge |
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Louis Henry Sullivan
Buffalo Guaranty Building |
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Thomas Eakins
The Gross Clinic |
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Thomas Eakins
The Champion Single Sculls |
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Winslow Homer
The Veteran in a New Field |
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Winslow Homer
Snap the Whip |
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Winslow Homer
The Gulf Stream |
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Jacob Riis
Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement-Five Cents a Spot |
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George Bellows
Stag at Sharkey's |
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George Bellows
Both Members of the Club |
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Who wrote "Daisy Miller"?
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Henry James
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Who wrote the Atlanta Exposition address?
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Booker T Washington
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Who wrote "The Wife of His Youth"?
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Charles W Chesnutt
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Who wrote "The Souls of Black Folk"?
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Post- Civil War America
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1. industrialization and economic growth, urbanization
2. population boom from immigrants 3. increased human suffering; ruined farms, ghettos, etc |
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American Victorian Age (as synonymous Gilded Age painting)
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didactic, moral
need for museums to provide learning opportunities for the public |
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John Singer Sargent
What was his M.O? What pieces did he do? |
like Whistler, only marginally American
mixed colors directly on the canvas as he painted Isabella Stewart Gardner El Jaleo Madame X |
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1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago
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Epitome of the Gilded Age:
showed that America wanted to compete with Europe artistically and politically as a world power Classical inspiration "White City": extensive use of streetlights plaster imitating marble appearance of wealth but easily destructible |
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Carter Harrison Sr
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Mayor of Chicago, assassinated two days before the end of the fair
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Richard Morris Hunt
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architect of the entrance to the Met Museum
Marble House Breakers |
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Richard Morris Hunt
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architect of the entrance to the Met Museum
Marble House Breakers |
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Richard Morris Hunt
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architect of the entrance to the Met Museum
Marble House Breakers |
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Richard Morris Hunt
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architect of the entrance to the Met Museum
Marble House Breakers |
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Mark Twain
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wrote "The Notorious Jumping Frog..."
groundbreaking use of vernacular development of wise fool character frame w/in a frame |
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Mark Twain
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wrote "The Notorious Jumping Frog..."
groundbreaking use of vernacular development of wise fool character frame w/in a frame |
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Mark Twain
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wrote "The Notorious Jumping Frog..."
groundbreaking use of vernacular development of wise fool character frame w/in a frame |
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the Gibson Girl
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created by Charles Dana Gibson
attempt to capture the Renaissance beauty of the female form without her being nude |
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Henry James
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sometimes omniscient narrator
inner workings of the characters minds commentary on European and American society |
