ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

William Sidney Mount, Dancing on the Barn Floor, 1831. [16.1]

-Genre painting (everyday life) of American Rural Life

    -Jacksonian Era

          -andrew jackson's predency 1829-37

         -rise of broad popular culture, middle class 
    -American Art Union (Aplllo Association) 1839-1851

         - to promote American art and popular taste

         - artists and general public

          -anual lottery 

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

William Sidney Mount, Eel Spearing at Setauket, 1845. [16.3]

-Genre Painting (in american rual art)

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Francis William Edmonds (1806-63), The Image Peddler, 1844. [16.4]

- Genre painting

-Dark Borque qualities, strong light. Earlier in Europe 

-Anecdotal details 

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Richard Caton Woodville (1825-55), The Sailor’s Wedding, 1852. [16.5]

-Genre Painting

-Dusseldorf School 

-Neoclassical qualties 

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Lilly Martin Spencer (1822-1902), Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the ‘Lasses,1856. [16.6]

-Genre Painting

-French, but immigrated here

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879)

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, c. 1845. [16.9]

-Genre Painting 

-Studied at Pennsylvania art academy 

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879)The Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, 1857. [16.10]

-Genre Painting still rural america 

-Dusseldorf school in 1856

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868)

Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851. [16.13]

-History Painting 

-Dusseldorf School 

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868) Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1861 (study fir the mural)

-History Painting 

-Daniel Boone (1734-1820), military officers in rev, war

- Linked to Manifest Destiny (as in Emigrants crossing the plains by Bierstadt)

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Severin Roesen (active 1845-72), Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, 1853. [16.15]

-Still Life

- Abundance

-Prosperity 

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Henry Inman (1801-46), Georgianna Buckham and her Mother, 1839. [16.17]

-Portraiture

-Crisp details, balanced composition, depths created 

-individualized that creates characterization (likeness of people)

-Romanticism with a sense of perfection 

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

William Page (1811-85), Mrs. William Page, c. 1860. [16.21]

- Portraiture

-President of National Academy of Design 

- Coliseum

-sense of space 

-harmony in color, and form with abstract qualities 

RP

The First School of American Sculpture: Neoclassicism

Horatio Greenough (1805-52), George Washington, 1840. Marble. [18.1]

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Hiram Powers (1805-73), The Greek Slave, c. 1843. Marble. [18.4]

-The First School of American Sculpture: Neoclassicism

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Thomas Crawford (1813-57)Orpheus and Cerberus, 1843. Marble.

-The First School of American Sculpture: Neoclassicism

-Eurydice (greek mythology, was his wife)

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Thomas Crawford (1813-57) The Progress of Civilization, 1851-63. Senate pediment, United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. [18.6]

-Common in ancient greek 

-The First School of American Sculpture: Neoclassicism

-In center she represents AMERICA (eagle) 

-Early American on right side (native americans, trees)

-Human Endeavour on left side (education, industry,defense)

-All together represents the progress of America 

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Erastus Dow Palmer (1817-1904), The White Captive, 1857. Marble. [18.9]

-Naturalism (realistic)

-No professional trainer, was a carver 

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870) 

John Rogers (1829-1904), The Fugitive’s Story, 1869. Plaster. [18.10]

-Naturalism and “Genre”

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908), Puck, 1856. Marble. [18.13]

-The Second Generation in Italy: Neoclassicism

-William Skakespeare, Midsummer nights dream 

-Stuided anatomy 

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Randolph Rogers (1825-92), Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii, 1853. Marble. [18.15]

-The Second Generation in Italy: Neoclassicism

-edward bulwer-lytton  The last day of Pompeii 1837

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

The Second Generation in Italy: Neoclassicism

William Wetmore Story (1819-95), Medea, 1864. Marble. [18.16]

-Jason and the Golden Fleece 

-Grek Mythology 

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

The Second Generation in Italy: Neoclassicism

William Rinehart (1825-74), Clytie, 1872. Marble. [18.17]

-S curve body posture 

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Photography

Anonymous, Country Couple 1844 [17.2]

-early photography

  -1839 daguerreotype by Louis Daguerre

  -1841 Calotype (talbotype) by William Henry Fox Talbot

-Daguerroeotype  

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Photography

Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), Mrs. Samuel F. B. Morse and Daughter Playing Chess, c. 1848. [17.5]

-         -Daguerroeotype  

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Photography

John Plumbe (1809-57), Jr., United States Capitol, 1846. [17.6]

-Daguerreotype 

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Photography (realism)

Mathew Brady (c. 1823-96) Abraham Lincoln, c. 1863. [17.9]

-learned photography from Morse

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Photography   

Mathew Brady (c. 1823-96) On the Antietam Battlefield, 1862. [17.10]

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Photography 

Carlton Watkins (1829-1916), The Three Brothers – 4480 Feet – Yosemite, 1861. [17.13]

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1825 – c. 1870)

Photography 

Timothy Sullivan (1840-82), Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle, New Mexico, 1873. [17.14]

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THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

Second Empire Style 

Alfred B. Mullett (1834-90), State, War, and Navy Building (now the Old Executive Office Building), Washington, D.C., 1871-75. [20.3]

-Mausard roof 

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

Peter B. Wight (1838-1925), National Academy of Design, New York City, 1863-65. [20.5]

- Victorian Gothic (Ruskinian Gothic)  emergered in Britian

-compared to Venice works 

-Oriemental 

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900) 

Frank Furness (1839-1912) and George W. Hewitt (1841-1916), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1872-76. [20.7]

-Victorian Gothic (Ruskinian Gothic)

-Pointed arch on entry way 

-Filled surfaces/ornamental 

-interior design islamic 

-Picturesque eclecticism (attraction to unusual details)

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

Other Styles of the American Renaissance

Richard Morris Hunt (1828-1895)

Biltmore, Ashville, North Carolina, 1895. [20.10-12]  

-  Château Style

-George Washington Vanerbillt III

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

Richard Morris Hunt (1828-1895) The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1892-95. [20.13-14] 

-Cornelius Vanderbilt II

-Italain Neo-Renaissance

-Barque interior 

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

McKim, Mead & White (Charles McKim, William Mead, Stanford White) Isaac Bell House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1882-83. [20.16]   

-Shingle Style

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

 McKim, Mead & White (Charles McKim, William Mead, Stanford White) Boston Public Library, 1888. [20.19-20]

-Neo-Renaissance

-Beaux-Arts Style

-Academic Classicism 

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. [20.23] 

-Beaux-Arts Style; Academic Classicism

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Trinity Church, Boston, 1872-77 (interior decoration by John La Farge). [20.25-27]

-Romanesque Revival- period in medieval time in europe before gothic around 1050-1150 

-picturesque eclecticism

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

Precursors to Modernism

Henry Hobson Richardson, Marshall Field Wholesale Store, Chicago, 1885-87. [20.28]

-toward modernism in architecutre

-toward funcationalism  

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

John and Washington Roebling, Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-83. [21.5]

-Precursors to Modernism

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri, 1890-91. [21.9]

-Precursors to Modernism

- "form....follows function"

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c. 1870 – c. 1900)

Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) Schlesinger and Mayer Department Store (now Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company), Chicago, 1899. [21.12-13]

-Precursors to Modernism