ArtH 3191 American Art to 1900

Spring 2009

Prof. Julia Dabbs

 

Images Seen in Class for Review – Exam 1   (Thurs. Feb. 19)

 

(figure nos. in parentheses are to illustrations in Pohl, Framing America)

 

 

European Encounters with America:

 

- Le Moyne, Rene de Laudonniere & Indian Chief Athore, (fig. 1.57)  [click on image at website to get larger]

 

- John White, Indian Village of Secoton, c.1585 (fig. 1.58)

 

- White, Indian Dance, c.1585 (fig. 1.59)

[for review or further info, may want to also check Hulton, America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White, on reserve:  N6505.B58;

   Or the “Virtual Jamestown” website]

 

-  White, Indian Conjuror

 

- White, Indians at Meal (figs. 1.60, 1.61)

           Here’s the engraving seen in class

 

Terms:  gouache;  vellum

 Names:  Theodor de Bry (engraver)

 

 

Colonial Portraiture:

 

- Anon., John Freake, 1674 (fig. 1.65)

 

- Anon., Mrs. Elizabeth Freake & Baby Mary, c.1674 (fig. 1.66)

 

- Capt. Thomas Smith, Self-Portrait, c.1680 (fig. 1.72)

 

- Henrietta Johnston, Henriette de Chastaigner, 1711 [see others in text: 1.76, 1.77]

 

-  Feke, Mrs. James Bowdoin, 1748  [saw briefly, in terms of influence on Copley]

 

Selected Works by John Singleton Copley:

 

          - The Copley Family

 

          - Mary and Elizabeth Royall, c.1758

 

          - Boy with a Squirrel (Henry Pelham), c.1765 (fig. 2.2)

 

          - Mrs. Thomas Gage

 

          - Nathaniel Sparhawk, 1764

 

- John Hancock, 1765

 

Epes Sargent, c. 1760

 

          - Paul Revere, c.1768

 

[other images on list were not seen in class, so don’t have to know]

 

Terms:   Elizabethan style;  Baroque style;  pendant;  memento mori

 

 

 

 

The “Grand Manner”:  American History Painting, 1770-1830:

 

- Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778 (Fig. 2.5)

 

  [briefly saw and discussed Copley’s Death of Major Peirson, but won’t be asked to ID]

 

- Benj. West, Death of Gen. Wolfe, 1770 (Fig. 1.81)

 

- P. Revere, The Bloody Massacre, 1770 (Fig. 2.3)

 

- Trumbull, Death of General Warren (Battle of Bunker’s Hill), 1786 (Fig. 2.7)

 

-  Vanderlyn, Death of Jane McCrea, 1804 (Fig. 2.48)

                    

-      C.W. Peale, Exhuming the First American Mastodon, 1806-08 [now at the Maryland Historical Society;  no more Peale Museum!]

 

 

- C.W. Peale, The Artist in His Museum, 1822 (Fig. 2.54)

 

 

Terms:  “grand manner”;  history painting

 

 

 

 An American “Icon”:  Images of George Washington:

Paintings:

          - Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (“Vaughan Portrait”), 1795 (fig. 2.9)

 

- Stuart, George Washington (“Athenaeum portrait”), 1796

         

- Stuart, George Washington (“Lansdowne Portrait”), 1796 (fig. 2.10)

                   Compared to: Rigaud, Louis XIV (17th C. French) [won’t have to know this specifically]

                                    Sully, Portrait of George Washington, c.1820, Minneapolis Institute of Arts [don’t have to know this one]

           

          - Stuart, Washington at Dorchester Heights, 1806

         

- C.W. Peale, Washington at Battle of Princeton, 1779

 

       

Sculpture:

 [added] - Houdon, Bust of George Washington, 1785

 

          - Houdon, George Washington, 1788 (Fig. 2.15)

 

          - Greenough, George Washington, 1840

 

Images dropped from this section:

    - Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851

 

- Rembrandt Peale, George Washington (“Porthole portrait”), 1823

 

          - Ceracchi, George Washington, 1791

 

 

Exam #1  Essay Question (will write in class; worth 25 pts):

          How did artists try to “define” (or at least identify) this new country through art?  For example, what approaches (for example style, subject matter, specific figures) seem to have been popular?

 What styles or subjects weren’t seemingly as successful or popular with the American public?

 *Please be sure to refer to/describe specific works of art (seen in class) to support your comments.