REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN ART:

Painting – Winslow Homer:

Prisoners from the Front, 1866 (fig. 4.34)

Defiance: Inviting a Shot Before Petersburg, 1864

The Bright Side, 1865 (fig. 4.28)

The Veteran in a New Field, 1865

REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS:

[dropped] Krimmel, Quilting Frolic, 1813 (fig.4.18)

Wm Sidney Mount:

[dropped] The Power of Music, 1847

Eel Spearing at Setauket, 1845

Eastman Johnson:

[dropped, Whitney’s presentation] Negro Life in the South (Old Kentucky Home), 1850 (fig. 4.23)

The Ride for Liberty, c.1862 (fig. 4.25)

[dropped] Clonney, Waking Up, 1851

Crowe, Slave Market in Richmond VA, 1852

Spencer, Dixie Land, 1862

[dropped] Kaufmann, On to Liberty, 1867 (fig. 4.26)

Ball, Emancipation Monument, 1876 (fig. 4.42)

Ward, The Freedman, 1862

Homer, Cotton Pickers, 1876

Decker, The Accused, 1886 [not finding on web; won’t have to know]

Works by African-American Artists:

[added] Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free, 1867

[dropped] Robert Duncanson, Uncle Tom and Little Eva, 1853 (fig. 4.20)

Henry O. Tanner:

Banjo Lesson, 1893 (fig. 5.78)

[dropped] The Thankful Poor, 1894

[dropped this section ]REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN ART:

[review: Vanderlyn, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, 1809-14;

Vanderlyn, Murder of Jane McCrea]

- H. Powers, The Greek Slave, 1846 (fig. 5.16)

Compared to: The Medici Venus [ancient Greek classical]

- Palmer, The White Captive, 1857

[dropped this section] AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS, 19^TH c.:

Patience Wright:

William Pitt, 1779, fig. 2.14

Harriet Hosmer:

Zenobia in Chains, 1859 (fig. 4.38)

Vinnie Ream Hoxie:

Abraham Lincoln, 1870 [for contemporary reactions to this work, see: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/vrhoxie.htm

JOHN SINGER SARGENT:

Portrait of Madame X [Madame Gautreau], 1883-84

Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888

AMERICAN REALISM

Thomas Eakins:

- Max Schmidt in a Single Scull, 1871 [this website has additional info on Eakins’ rowing pictures]

- [don’t have to know] The Blglin Brothers Racing, 1874

- The Gross Clinic, 1875 (Fig. 5.13) [won’t have to know, subject of a presentation]

- [dropped] The Agnew Clinic (Fig. 5.14)

- The Artist’s Wife & his Setterdog, 1886

[added] Amelia van Buren, c.1890

Winslow Homer:

- The Morning Bell, c.1872 (Fig. 5.6)

- Snap the Whip, 1872 [museum locations: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is slightly different]

- Breezing Up, 1876

- [dropped, Bekah’s presentation] The Lifeline, 1884

- [dropped] Undertow, 1886

ESSAY QUESTION FOR EXAM (can either write in class, or do as take-home; would be due sometime Friday May 1; worth 40 pts)

You’ve been given an opportunity to return to your high school and do a presentation on American art (before 1900) to an

American history class. What 5 works of art (from this course) would you show them, and why?

Criteria:

- Should have at least 1 work of art from each of the 3 sections of this course (so, chronological spread).

- Can include the work of art you are presenting on for our class.

- Can have a “theme”, such as portraiture, landscape, portrayals of gender/race.

- You should indicate their connection with historical events, especially what new light they might have

Shed for you regarding American history.

- You can also write about their visual appeal.

*Basically, you want a paragraph on each work of art chosen, indicating their importance/interest; indicate the scope of your

high school presentation; and do not do further research, just use class notes (or the textbook, if needed).