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Thomas Crawford
The Indian
Antebellum
1820-1860 |
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Hiram Powers
The Greek Slave
Antebellum
1820-1861 |
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Bingham
County Election
Antebellum
1820-1861 |
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John Rogers
Slave Auction
Antebellum
1820-1861 |
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Freake-Gibbs Painter
John Freake
Colonial
1620-1775 |
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Kuhn
Henry Darnell III
Colonial
1620-1775 |
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Winslow Homer
The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty
Civil war
1861-1865 |
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Trumbull
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill
Federal
1776-1820 |
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Horatio Greenough
George Washington
Federal
1776-1820 |
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Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
Federal
1776-1820 |
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George Catlin
Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head (The Light) Going To and Returning from Washington
Antebellum
1820-1861 |
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Mount
Farmers Nooning
Antebellum
1820-1861 |
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Freake-Gibbs Painter
Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary
Colonial
1620-1775 |
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John Frederick Kensett
Eaton's Neck
Reconstruction
1866-1877 |
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David Gilmour Blythe
Post Office
Antebellum
1820-1860 |
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Latrobe & Bulfinch
Capitol
Federal
1776-1820 |
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Copley
Boy With the Flying Squirrel
Colonial
1620-1775 |
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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe
Colonial
1620-1775 |
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Asher Durand
Kindred Spirits
Antebellum
1820-1860 |
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Alexander Gardner
Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter
Civil War
1861-1865 |
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Albert Bierstadt
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Civil War
1861-1865 |
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Benjamin West
Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus
Colonial
1620-1775 |
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Thomas Cole
Course of Empire (The Savage State)
Antebellum
(1820-1860) |
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| the gradual change of light and dark within a painting |
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| gradual change of color within a painting |
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| the material surface of a two dimensional image such as a print painting or photograph |
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| method of rendering a specific object or figure in a picture in depth by making it appear as if it's extending out perpendicular to the picture plane. |
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| part of the composition closest to the viewer |
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| part of the composition between foreground and background |
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| part furthest from the viewer |
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| the use of line (rather than color) to represent shapes or structure a composition. Linear style is characterized by clear outlines and invisible or tight brushstrokes |
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| the use of color to represent shapes or structure a composition. Painterly style is characterized by visible brushstrokes |
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| rendered in a way that seems visually convincing or in accordance with appearances |
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| art of ancient Greek and Rome |
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| use of hazy or misty light to suggest that something is far away |
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| a style of American landscape painting after the Civil War characterized by effects of overall light and simple, sparse compositions. |
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| study of symbols or signs |
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| an early photographic image made with mercury vapors and an iodine sensitive copper plate. Unlike most photographic images, daguerreotype is a single image that cannot be reproduced as multiples. |
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| an art movement in the late 19th century that is characterized by an extremely sketchy style that captured the feeling of spontaneity |
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| a sculpture in which the object or figure projects from a supporting background. In a low relief the form projects only slightly from the ground. In high relief, the forms project far from the ground, and may in parts be almost completely disengaged from the ground, thus approximating sculpture in the round |
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| relief sculpture (high/low) |
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| rendering of an abstract ideal as a human figure |
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| allegorical personification |
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| a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 that brought together architects and artists to create the ideal city. This spearheaded the City Beautiful movement. |
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| World's Columbian Exposition |
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| a reform movement in architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and harmonies planning in cities. |
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William Chase
In The Studio
Gilded Age |
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James Whistler
Nocturne in Blue and Gold
Reconstruction |
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Childe Hassam
The El New York
Progressive Era |
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Thomas Eakins
The Gross Clinic
Reconstruction |
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Mary Cassatt
In The Loge
Reconstruction/Gilded Age |
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Thomas Ball
Emancipation Memorial
Reconstruction |
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Augustus Saint Gaudens
Admiral Farragut
Gilded Age |
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Augustus Saint Gaudens
Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw
Progressive Era |
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McKim, Mead, & White
Penn Station
Progressive Era |
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Louis Sullivan
Wainwright Building
Progressive Era |
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Jacob Riis
5 Cents a Spot
Gilded Age |
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Louis Hine
Italian Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island
Progressive Era |
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John Sloan
Hairdresser's Window
Progressive |
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George Luks
Hester Street
Progressive Era |
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Cultural Periods
Colonial, Gilded Age. Federal, Progressive Era, Antebellum, Business Boom Era, Civil War, Depression, Reconstruction, World War II |
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(1620-1775) Colonial
(1776-1820) Federal
(1821-1860) Antebellum
(1861-1865) Civil War
(1866-1877) Reconstruction
(1878-1889) Gilded Age
(1890–1917) Progressive Era
(1918-1929) Business Boom Era
(1930-1939) Depression
(1940-1945) World War II |
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