ArtH 3191 American Art

Prof. Dabbs

Univ. of Minnesota Morris, Spring 2009

Preview/Review Images for EXAM #2

Architecture of the New Republic:

Bulfinch, Massachusetts State House, 1795-98

- Thornton, U.S. Capitol, design of 1796 (Figs. 2.27, 2.28)

East front (modern)

West front (modern)

Compared to: The Pantheon (Rome),

The Parthenon (Greece)

The Louvre (Paris, 17^th C.)

Terms: post & lintel construction; pediment; capital; podium; symmetry; temple front

dropped: Jefferson, Monticello, 1793-1809

Jefferson, University of Virginia Library

Hoban, The White House, 1792 - (will see later)

Art of the U.S. Capitol

- Brumidi, Apotheosis of George Washington, Capitol dome, 1865

- Brumidi, Frieze of American History, rotunda;

*look at frieze of images for the rotunda at this website: http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/index.cfm

- Trumbull, paintings for Capitol rotunda, 1817-24: saw The Declaration of Independence

[here is Trumbull’s earlier and better version, now in the Yale Univ. Art Gallery]

- Causici, The Conflict of Daniel Boone and the Indians, 1825-27 (fig. 2.45)

Terms: frieze; fresco; grisaille

American Folk Art Tradition

- Anonymous, Baby Asleep, c1825

- Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom, c1830 (fig. 3.20)

Compared to: West, William Penn & Indians, 1771 (fig. 1.84)

- Hicks, William Penn & Indians [dropped]

- A. Phillips, Mrs. Mayer and Daughter, 1830-40 (fig. 2.65)

- Phillips, Girl in Red Dress

- Anonymous, Mahantango Valley Farm, late 19^th C.

- Baltimore Album Quilt, c.1850 (text, 19.15)

-Harriet Powers, Bible Quilt, c.1880

*know differences between “folk” and “fine” art

American Genre Painting

- Mount, Farmers Nooning, 1836

- Woodville, Politics in an Oyster House, 1848

- Woodville, War News from Mexico, 1848 (fig. 4.4)

- Mount, News from California, 1850

- Bingham, County Election, 1851-52

[dropped: - Bingham, Canvassing for a Vote; Stump Speaking; and Verdict of the People, 1854-55]

The “New Eden”: American Landscape Painting and Visions of the Sublime

Thomas Cole & the Hudson River School:

The Oxbow, 1836

Cora Kneeling at Feet of Tamenund (fm Last of the Mohicans), 1827

[dropped] Kaaterskill Falls, 1826 (Fig. 3.11)

Distant View of Niagara Falls, 1830 (Fig. 3.10)

Cropsey, Autumn on the Hudson River, 1860

Frederic Church & the Sublime:

Niagara, 1857 (Fig. 3.27)

[dropped] Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860 (Fig. 3.28)

Cotopaxi, 1862

Luminism: [dropped this section]

Kensett, Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor, 1857 (Fig. 3.30)

Lane, Boston Harbor, 1850

Heade, Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay, 1868 (Fig. 3.31)

The View Out West:

Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak, 1863 (Fig. 3.32)

[dropped] Looking Down Yosemite Valley, 1865 (Fig. 5.51)

Moran, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872

[dropped] Mountain of the Holy Cross

[dropped] Chasm of the Colorado, 1873-74

Other terms/names:

- the Picturesque landscape

- the sublime

- Hudson River School

- anthropomorphic

Westward Ho! The Art of “Manifest Destiny”

- Bingham, Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap, 1851

- Leutze, Westward Ho, 1861 (Fig. 3.33) [this is the earlier version, in the Smithsonian American Art Museum]

- Leutze, Westward Ho, 1862 [fresco at the Capitol]; since this is the main one we talked about, I’d concentrate on it.

- Inness, The Lackawanna Valley, c.1855 (Fig. 3.48)

- Melrose, Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way, 1867

- J. Gast, American Progress, 1872

- Bierstadt, Emigrants Crossing the Plains, 1867

Portraying the Native American

[Review: West, Death of General Wolfe; Causici, Daniel Boone Struggling with the

Indian]

- Ch. Bird King, Young Omawhaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees, 1822

(Fig. 2.49)

- George Catlin:

The Author Painting a Chief..., 1841 (Fig. 3.37)

The Last Race..., 1832 (Fig. 3.34)

Mah-To-Toh-Pa (Four Bears), Mandan Chief, 1832 (Fig. 3.35)

Comp to K. Bodmer, Four Bears, 1833 (Fig. 3.39)

- K. Bodmer, Teton Sioux Woman, [actual name Chan-cha-Ula-Teuin; don’t have to memorize that!] 1833-34 (fig. 3.42)

J. Stanley, Osage Scalp Dance, 1845

[comp: Vanderlyn, Death of Jane McCrea, 1804]

- S. Eastman, Lacrosse Playing Among the Sioux Indians, 1851

- T.H. Matteson, The Last of the Race, 1847

[dropped] Shaw, Coming of the White Man, 1850

[dropped] Bierstadt, Last of the Buffalo, c.1889

TAKE-HOME ESSAY QUESTION FOR EXAM [due to me by Friday, April 3 – emailing the doc is o.k., so long as I can open it!]

Response to Thomas Cole’s “Essay on American Scenery” in coursepack:

Why is the American landscape, and its representation in painting, so important, according to Cole?

How does he try to persuade us of its importance? And is he, to you as a 21^st century reader, persuasive?

Might you look at American landscape paintings, or think about actually being in nature, differently as a result? Explain.

[I’d try to do this in 2-3 double-spaced pages.]