19th Century - Smithsonian American Art Museum
WEBImpressionism and the Gilded Age. The museum has one of the finest and largest collections from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, including impressionist and Gilded Age works.
Post-Revolutionary America: 1800–1840 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBWhile folk painters roamed rural areas to provide portraits for middling Americans, the European tour and grand historical themes remained critical to the work of academic painters and sculptors. At the same time, new cultural institutions on home soil provided opportunities for artists to study and exhibit.
Art in American Colonies and the United States, c. 1600–1860
WEBThis chapter covers about 250 years (c. 1700–1865) of art made during a period of dramatic shifts and changes that reflect the cultural fluidity in the American colonies (and later, the United States).
American Scenes of Everyday Life, 1840–1910 - The …
WEBBy the mid-1870s, the taste of American viewers and patrons changed in response to their expanded opportunities for travel; ready access to prints, photographs, illustrations in magazines and journals, and other reproductions; and exposure to …
19th Century American Art | Artsy
WEB19th Century American Art. A general category for artworks made in the United States between 1800 and 1900. While until 1820 American art was largely derivative of European styles, Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School would develop a distinctive style of painting that highlighted the American landscape, a subject that was later explored and ...
19th-century American art in 5 themes - Christie's
WEBDec 8, 2023 · For decades the young country’s artists had largely emulated the styles and subjects of British and European paintings owned by wealthy colonial families, but as the audience for art grew and the country’s first public museums opened, distinctively American painters emerged across a range of genres.
Early American Art
WEBThe collection features artworks that trace the transformation of the thirteen colonies into a nation, including portraits by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Gilbert Stuart; landscapes by Thomas Cole; and sculptures by Horatio Greenough.
American Art - All US Art Movements | TheArtStory
WEBThe first Native American art movement included over 25 Iroquois artists, who employed drawing, painting, and printmaking to realistically depict their tribe's beliefs, history, fashion, and lifestyle.
American Paintings - National Gallery of Art
WEBTwo Corcoran Collection paintings sharing this connection to the Civil War hang nearby: George Peter Alexander Healy's portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1860), the first portrait for which the President posed following his election, and William MacLeod’s Maryland Heights: Siege of Harpers Ferry.
Nineteenth-Century American Drawings - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBIn the early 1800s, the use of watercolor was largely confined to art instruction, cabinet portraits (such as the beautiful example of Allan Melville, the father of the novelist, by John Rubens Smith), and topographical urban and country scenes intended for reproduction in …
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