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Early American Art & Literature
Romanticism, Realism & Naturalism
Romanticism
Profound Love of NatureIndividualismFascination with Gothic &
SupernaturalYearning for Picturesque & ExoticDeep Rooted IdealismPassionate Nationalism
American Literary Romantics
Edgar Allen Poe – Gothic/Mystery Annabelle Lee, The Raven
James Fenimore Cooper – Frontier/Sea Leather Stocking Tales – Last of the Mohicans
Washington Irving – Dutch along Hudson Rip Van Winkle,
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
American Literary Renaissance
1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter
1851 Herman Melville, Moby-Dick 1853 Emerson, Representative Men 1854 Thoreau, Walden
1855 Walt Whitman,
Leaves of Grass
captured undiluted power of nature Painted nation’s most spectacular and undeveloped areas Nature was source of wisdom & fulfillment.Created visual embodiments of ideals of Transcendentalism. * painting is vehicle to reach the mind of mankind * art is agent of moral & spiritual transformation
The Hudson River SchoolThe Hudson River SchoolThe Hudson River SchoolThe Hudson River School
Members of Hudson River School
Thomas Cole-founderAsher B. DurandGeorge InnessThomas Chambers
In the CatskillsBy Thomas Cole
The Ox BowBy Thomas Cole
Fanciful Landscape by Thomas Doughty
The Course of Empire: The Savage StateThomas Cole, 1834
A River GlimpseBy Thomas Doughty
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or The Pastoral State - Thomas Cole, 1836
The Course of Empire: ConsummationThomas Cole, 1836
The Course of Empire: DestructionThomas Cole, 1836
The Course of Empire: DesolationThomas Cole, 1836
Kindred Spirits – Asher Durand, 1849
In Nature’s WonderlandThomas Doughty, 1835
Forest in the Morning Lightby Asher Durand
Stranded ShipBy Asher Durand
Rising Stormby George Inness
Niagara – Frederic Church, 1857
CotopaxiBy Fredric Church
New York HarborBy Fitz Henry Lane
Boston Harbor from Constitution WharfRobert Salmon, 1833
The Constitution in Boston HarborFitz Hugh Lane, 1848-49
Fur Trappers Descending the MissouriGeorge Caleb Bingham, 1845
Early Naturalists
John James Audubon Audubon Society
John Woodhouse Audubon
Bald Headed Eagleby John James Audubon
Wild TurkeyBy John James Audubon
Blue Yellow Back Warbler By John James Audubon
White GerfalconsBy John James Audubon
George Catlin
American Painter & Writer My Life Among the Indians Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians
Bird of Thunder by George Catlin
Black Hawkby George Catlin
Buffalo Chase With Bows & LancesBy George Catlin
Comanche Lancing Osage By George Catlin
Mouth of the Platte RiverBy George Catlin
Buffalo Bull’s Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe - George Caitlin, 1832
2. The “Stoic” Indian
Impact of Romanticism
Beginning of Environmentalism Respect for Native AmericansNationalismGrowth of Respect for American
Culture
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