By: Alyssa Tigner, Samantha Baker, Victoria Skuce, Kimberly

Guillen, Aubrey Caudle, and Peyton Bloodgood

Nationalism

Thomas ColeEngraver of

woodblocks for painting, designed patterns, painter, mostly landscape.

American and European views.

Landscape paintings showed ideas of God throughout the land.

American landscape painter

"The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.“

Paintings showed Spirit and emotion.

Hudson River SchoolGeorge inness

Thomas Cole“Italian Coast”

George Inness“The storm”

“The beauty of the West….a truly American view.”

Honored by American Visionaries was instrumental in securing our heritage of national parks for the continuing benefit and enjoyment of the American people and the world.

Paintings contributed to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

Rocky Mountain SchoolThomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt

Thomas Moran

Albert Bierstadt

John QuidorReturn of Rip Van WinkleAccurately sets the scene in the Catskills and shows

brick houses with step-gabled, Dutch roofs.

James Fenimore CooperAmerican Tales

Extols the virtue of Republican ideals

Genre ArtistJohn Quidor and James Fenimore Cooper

John QuidorRip Van Winkle

James Fenimore CooperThe Deerslayer

MonticelloEstate of Thomas

Jefferson

Architecture University Of Virginia

•Founded by Thomas Jefferson

Nathaniel HawthorneNovelist and short

story writer, a central figure in the American Renaissance.

The Scarlet LetterBased on his

experiences in Salem. Told the story of the earliest victims of Puritan obsession and spiritual intolerance.

Most popular American Poet of the 19th centur.

Evangeline (1855) Narrative poem of the

former French colony of Acadia.

The Song of Hiawatha Told the story of an

Indian chief. “the daughter of the moon”

LiteratureHenry Wadsworth Longfellow

Was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who lef the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Champion of individualism and a critic of the pressures of society.

Thoughts through a dozen published essays and lectures.

An American Scholar “A chief event of life is the day in which we

have encountered a mind that startled us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson