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21 Cards in this Set
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The Painters Triumph William Sydney Mount - 1838 Genre Painting -filled with visual puns and humor -leads to the conventionalization of American "types" (yankee, trapper, farmer) -way of dealing with internal conflict among these groups by making fun of everyone. |
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Bargaining for a Horse William Sydney Mount - 1835 Genre Painting -filled with visual puns and humor -leads to the conventionalization of American "types" (yankee, trapper, farmer) -way of dealing with internal conflict among these groups by making fun of everyone. |
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Jolly Floatboat Men Caleb Bingham- 1846 Genre Painting -Wholesome engagement and simple lifestyle -shows regional identity -this is the highway infrastructure of the u.s. -emblem of leisurely freedom, life free from constraints -invest in infrastructure - not move west |
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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri Caleb Bingham- 1845 Genre Painting -river is seen as way of connection |
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War News From Mexico Richard Caton Woodville - 1848 Genre Painting -newspapers are a social and political force, very partisan. -generically American, any one at the time could identify with scene. |
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Old 76 & Young 48 Richard Caton Woodville- 1849 Genre Painting -vet of Am. Rev. explains to his son, his time at war, as they sit under a portrait of George Wash. -questioning how appropriate the civil war is -woman is central, but more of a prop or listener |
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Shake Hands Lilly Martin Spencer -1854 -central woman figure, non-threatening, doing labor, but picturesque -men and women have different moral expectations |
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Greek Slave Hiram Powers - 1843 -perfect example of the "captivity narrative" -cultural imagination around the harem -accepted by americans because of the moralized Christian narrative |
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Zenobia in Chains Harriet Hosmer- 1859 -holds dignity and determination while shackled |
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Hagar in the Wilderness Edmonia Lewis- 1875 -race is ambiguous -Lewis mainly worked in themes about black and american indian people in neoclassical sculpture |
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Last Bull Captures Horse Anon Cheyanne- 1871-76 -ledger art |
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Fort Marion Prisoners Dancing for Tourists Cohoe- 1875-77 |
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Classroom at Ft. Marion Wo-Haw, Kiowa- 1875-77 |
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Ghost Dance Dress Pawnee, 1890 |
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Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa George Catlin, 1832 -american indian chief |
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Painting of the Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa George Catlin, 1861-69 -american indian chief |
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Rescue Horatio Greenough, 1837 -sculpture of classicized figures -white man saves woman and child from "savage" |
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Conflict of Daniel Boone & the Indians Enrico Causici, 1825 -high relief sculpture of Daniel Boone and his conflict with the native americans |
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Progress of Civilization Thomas Crawford, 1855-73 -contains a detail of native figure -"the dying indian chief"- race was doomed, they needed to be memorialized in sculpture -part of the narrative of manifest destiny -dejected male native almost always nearly nude- long history of classisizing native americans, primitiveness is seen as savage and beautiful |
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Joseph Cinque Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1839 -African Slave returned home |
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Farmers Nooning William Sydney Mount, 1836 -ambiguous scene of relaxing -central black figure-generally depicted as lazy -boy poking wears "tanashanter" hat(associated with abolitionists) trying to "wake the beast of slavery. |
