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The Falling Gladiator | William Rimmer -1861 -* Not only a consummate display of anatom knowl, but also representation of a human being racked in pain - |
The Dying Centeur | William Rimmer -1861 c - - |
Flight and Pursuit | William Rimmer -1872 -* One ofthe most haunting and surreal image in 19th<br />- Depths of troubled spirit - |
Despair + | William Rimmer -1830 -- Psycho torment<br />* Possibly 1st nude done in Am - |
The Sailor’s Wedding | Richard Caton Woodville -1852 - - |
The Image Peddler | Francis W. Edmunds -1844 - - |
The Money Diggers | John Quidor -1832 -Became one of his most famous - |
The Return of Rip van Winkle | John Quidor -1839 c -Even more popular than his Money Diggers - |
Anthony van Corlear | John Quidor -1839 c - - |
Art versus Law | David Gilmore Blythe -1859-60 - - |
The Bone Player | William Sydney Mount -1856 - - |
Eel Spearing at Setauket | William Sydney Mount -1845 -Creates a realistic illusion of believable forms in space<br /><br />First monumental black woman in American painting<br /><br />Reflects stylistic lessons he had learned from 17th century Dutch genre painting - |
The Power of Music | William Sydney Mount -1847 - - |
Cider Making | William Sydney Mount -1841 - - |
Farmer's Nooning | William Sydney Mount -1836 -Classical sculpture (faun) - |
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri | George Caleb Bingham -1845 c - - |
Raftsmen Playing Cards | George Caleb Bingham -1847 - - |
The Jolly Flatboatmen | George Caleb Bingham -1846 - - |
The County Election | George Caleb Bingham -1850 c - - |
Shooting for the Beef | George Caleb Bingham -1850 - - |
White Cloud: Chief of the Iowas | George Catlin -1845 c - - |
Horse Chief | George Catlin -1834 - - |
Mandan Village: Bull Society Dance | George Catlin -1832 - - |
The Hatch Family | Eastman Johnson -1871 - - |
Old Kentucky Home | Eastman Johnson -1859 - - |
Corn Husking | Eastman Johnson -1860 - - |
In the Fields | Eastman Johnson -1875 - - |
Picnicing in the Woods | Winslow Homer -1858 -wood engraving - |
The War for the Union: The Bayonet Charge | Winslow Homer -1862 -wood engraving - |
The War for the Union: A Cavalry Charge | Winslow Homer -1862 -wood engraving - |
Sharpshooter | Winslow Homer -1862 - - |
Sharpshooter wd | Winslow Homer -1862 -wood engraving - |
Bivouac Fire on the Potomac | Winslow Homer -1861 -wood engraving - |
the Great Russian Ball | Winslow Homer -1863 -wood engraving - |
Prisoners from the Front | Winslow Homer -1866 - - |
Weaning the Calf | Winslow Homer -1870s c - - |
Homeward Bound | Winslow Homer -1867 -One of Martin's favorite wood engravings - |
Deer Drinking | Winslow Homer -1892 -Watercolor<br /><br />Rarely has an artist and a medium been so well suited to one another - allows him freshness/immediacy - |
Flower Garden, Nassau | Winslow Homer -1890 c -water color - |
Nassau | Winslow Homer -1899 -water color - |
Croquet Scene | Winslow Homer -1866 - - |
Long Branch, NJ | Winslow Homer -1869 -Goes outside and studies light; abrupt changes of dark and light more closely approximate reality/visiual truth; no one else in America does this - |
Gloucester Farm | Winslow Homer - - - |
Snap the Whip | Winslow Homer -1872 -wood engraving - |
Snap the Whip | Winslow Homer -1872 - - |
Dad’s Coming | Winslow Homer -* - - |
Breezing Up | Winslow Homer -1876 c - - |
The Gale | Winslow Homer -1881 -Threat of the sea; from this point forward the sea b/c the dominate theme in Homer's work - |
Life Line | Winslow Homer -1884 - - |
Undertow | Winslow Homer -1886 - - |
Fog Warning | Winslow Homer -1885 - - |
The Gulf Stream | Winslow Homer -1899 -Almost all of his works up to this point seemed to point to this climatic painting<br><br>Grim view of existence - |
Black man on beach | Winslow Homer -* - - |
West Point, Prout's Neck | Winslow Homer -1900 - - |
Rocks/Sea X2 | Winslow Homer -* - - |
The Fox Hunt | Winslow Homer -1893 - - |
Right and Left | Winslow Homer -1900? - - |
Mrs. Letitia Bacon | Thomas Eakins -1888 - - |
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull | Thomas Eakins -1871 - - |
Will Schuster and Blackman Going Shooting for Rail | Thomas Eakins -1876 - - |
Walt Whitman | Thomas Eakins -* - - |
William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill river | Thomas Eakins -1877 - - |
William Ruch Carving | Thomas Eakins -1908 - - |
The Swimming Hole | Thomas Eakins -1882 -Height of influence as teacher; leaders of this new American art to break w/ academy - |
The Gross Clinic | Thomas Eakins -1875 - - |
The Thinker | Thomas Eakins -1900 - - |
Wrestlers | Thomas Eakins -* - - |
Agnew Clinic | Thomas Eakins -* - - |
Negroe Boy Dancing | Thomas Eakins -1878 - - |
Steelworkers--Noontime | Thomas Anshutz -1880 -Human figure studies - |
After the Hunt | William Michael Harnett -1885 -***His masterpiece<br><br>Sources = large photographic still lifes by Adolf Braun in 1860s - |
Music and Good Luck | William Michael Harnett -1888 - - |
The Social Club.. Pipe | William Michael Harnett -1880 c - - |
The Colt | William Michael Harnett -* - - |
The Poor Man’s Store | John Frederick Peto -1885 - - |
The Cup | John Frederick Peto -1904 - - |
The Artist's Pack | John Frederick Peto -1888 -"Rack" type = category of deceptive painting; popular in early 19th century - |
Jonah and the Whale | Albert Pinkham Ryder -1880s c - - |
The Flying Dutchman | Albert Pinkham Ryder -1887 - - |
Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens | Albert Pinkham Ryder -1875-91 - - |
The Dead Bird | Albert Pinkham Ryder -1890-1900 - - |
Toilers of the Sea | Albert Pinkham Ryder -1882 c - - |
The Race Track | Albert Pinkham Ryder -1895-1910 c - - |
Moonlit Marine | Albert Pinkham Ryder -1885-90 c - - |
Moonlight, Indian Encampment | Ralph Blakelock -1885-9 - - |
Moonlight | Ralph Blakelock -1885 c - - |
The Qustioner of the Sphinx | Elihu Vedder -1863 -Through works like this Vedder became recognized as america's leading exponent of the supernatural in painting<br><br> - |
Lair of theSea Serpent | Elihu Vedder -1863-4 - - |
Memory | Elihu Vedder -* - - |
The Cup of Death | Elihu Vedder -1885 -Illustration made him famous, and set the standard for artist designed books from that point forward - |
The Art of Rome | Elihu Vedder -1894 - - |
Peacocks and Peonies | John La Farge -1893 - - |
Maua, our Boatman | John La Farge -1891 - - |
Infant Bacchus | John La Farge -1880 c -1st truly such program of its kind on a monumental scale in America (Trinity Church, Boston) - |
Bridal Path, Tahiti | John La Farge -1890 c - - |
An Eclogue | Kenyon Cox -1890 -"Eclogue" = pastoral poem in form of dialog; inspired by Virgil<br><br>Realistic and idealized - |
The Days | Thomas Wilmer Dewing -1887 - - |
Summer | Thomas Wilmer Dewing -1890 c -*Influence of Whistler and his nocturnes lead to development of a style in America known as "tonalism" - |
Angel | Abbott Handerson Thayer -1889 c -Based off of Gibson Girl - |
Charity | Abbott Handerson Thayer -1894 c - - |
Virgin | Abbott Handerson Thayer -* - - |
Athens | John La Farge -* -Memories of 16th/17th Montagna, Porzo, Cortona (mural painting)<br>Based on Venus de Milo<br> - |
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket | James McNeill Whistler -1874 c -Exhibits falling rocket 1877 in London; John Ruskin hated it<br>Lawsuit for liable<br> - |
Black Lion Wharf, (etching) | James McNeill Whistler -1859 - - |
The Lagoon, Venice: Overture in Blue and Silver | James McNeill Whistler -1864 c - - |
Chelsea Wharf: Gray and Silver + Battered Sea Bridge | James McNeill Whistler -1875 c - - |
The White Girl/Symphony in White, No. 1 | James McNeill Whistler -1861-62 -Famous/notorious; rejected from Royal Academy and Salon in Paris; exhibited it at Salon de Refuse - |
The Princess of the Porcelain Country | James McNeill Whistler -1864 - - |
The Peacock Room | James McNeill Whistler -1876-7 - - |
The Artist's Mother: Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1 | James McNeill Whistler -1871 - - |
Theodore Duret | James McNeill Whistler -1882-84 - - |
Spanish Dancer | John Singer Sargent -* - - |
El Jaleo | John Singer Sargent -1880 - - |
Daughters of Edward Darley Boit | John Singer Sargent -1882 -Calculating groups, strong value contrasts<br><br>Pattern and design reminds of Whistler/Japanese influence - |
Madame Gautreau/X | John Singer Sargent -1884 -Essence of late 19th century feminine refinement - |
Muddy Allegators | John Singer Sargent -1900 c -Watercolor - |
The Stream | John Singer Sargent - - - |
The Bathers | John Singer Sargent -1917 c - - |
The Bather | John Singer Sargent -* - - |
Lady Agnew | John Singer Sargent -1892-93 c -Paint looks like tinted whipped cream - |
The Boating Party | Mary Cassatt -1893 - - |
The Letter | Mary Cassatt -1891 -Aquatint and dry point; 10 etchings/engravings<br><br>*One of the most beautiful graphic prints made by an American artist* - |
The Bath | Mary Cassatt -1891 -shows the influence of post impressionists like Gauguin - |
After the Bath | Mary Cassatt -1891 c -Pastel - |
Eakins/Sargent Nude Figure Study CF. | CF - - - |
Eastern Penitentiary, Plan, Philadelphia<br /><br />*Most famous work<br /><br />1st prison in country to be designed on radial principle | John Haviland -1821-37 -Gothic - |
Naval Hospital, Porstmouth, Va | John Haviland -1826 -Greek Revival - |
NY Halls of Justice (The Tombs) | John Haviland -1835-34 -Egyptian revival - |
Chapel of St Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore | Maximilian Godefroy -1807 -1st Gothic revival church in Am - |
Trinity Church, NYC | Richard Upjohn -1839-46 -1st full fledged NeoGothic church; 1st to look like medieval building<br><br>Reformed English perpendicular - |
Trinity Church, Warsaw, NY | Richard Upjohn -1854 -Seen at best in smaller churches<br><br>"Board and batton" construction = carpentry sheathing - |
Kingscote, Newport, R.I. | Richard Upjohn -1838 -Tudor Gothic in style<br><br>Rarely used Gothic for domestic arch - |
Grace Church | James Renwick, Jr. -* -Nys wealthiest and most fashionable church - |
S. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC | James Renwick, Jr. -* -*1st church in Am to embody clearly the influence of Frnch Gothic architecture<br><br>Climax of his church architecture<br><br>Catholic - |
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1847-55 | James Renwick, Jr. - -1st monumental use of the Romanesque style in a public building<br><br>Symmetrical plan - |
Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, NY | Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis -1838 (and 1865-7) - - |
Customs House, NYC | Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis -1833-42 - - |
Old Whaler’s Church, Sag Harbbor, L. I., NY | Minard Lafever -1843-44 -Egyptian revival - |
Grove Street Cemetry, Hew Haven, Ct | Henry Austin -1845-48 -Egyptian revival - |
The Architecture of Country House | A.J. Downing -* - - |
George Burne (not Downing) Wedding Cake House | A.J. Downing -* -**known as carpenter Gothic - |
The Crystal Palace | George Carstenson and Charles Gildemeister -* -Iron and glass<br><br>Orientalesque details - |
The Bogardus Factory | James Bogardus -1850c -*1st cast iron structure in America - |
Haughwout Building, NY | John Gaynor and Daniel Badger -1857 -Represents a transition from eclectic revival style popular in 19th to new manner created by young architects (Sullivan, Wright)<br><br>*1st to introduce the passenger elevator (NY); skyscraper in Chi - |
Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge | Ware & van Brunt -1870-78 -Victorian Gothic/Italian Gothic - |
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Frank Furness -1872-76 -1st important comission<br><br>Ruskin inspired; Romanesque elements - |
Marshall Field Wholesale Store | Henry Hobson Richardson -1885-87 -Here sets standard for commercial building which set the stage for the skyscraper in Chicago and Sullivan<br><br>his last major work; historically most imp building - |
Trinity Church, Boston | Henry Hobson Richardson -1872-77 -French Romanesque - |
Crane Memorial Library, Quincy, Mass. | Henry Hobson Richardson -1880-83 -Romanesque revival<br><br>one of his imp functional contrib is development of hte library; 5 libraries bt 1877-1883<br><br>most coherent and concise statement in the library form - |
The Watts Sherman House, Newport, Rhode Island | Henry Hobson Richardson -1875 -*1st example in Am of what we call the Queen Anne style<br><br>*Interior is based on a new concept of open, free flowing space - |
The Breakers | Richard Morris Hunt -* - - |
Biltmore, Ashville, North Carolina | Richard Morris Hunt -1895 -Landscaping (Central Park) - Frederick Law Homestead<br><br>French Ren/Gothic - |
Isaac Bell House, Newport, Rhode Island | Firm of McKim, Mead and White -1882-3 - - |
The Villard Houses, NYC | Firm of McKim, Mead and White -1885 - - |
The Boston Public Library | Firm of McKim, Mead and White -1888 - - |
Home Insurance Building, Chicago | William Le Baron Jenney -1883-85 -1st completely metal framed building in America, his best known work<br><br>steel girders were used in upper stories; 1st use of steel gurders in a building in America<br><br>Influential to Burnham and Sullivan<br> - |
Reliance Building, Chicago | Burham and Root -1894-5 -landmark on road to America's modern arch and development of skyscraper - |
Monadnock | Burham and Root -1889-91 - - |
Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri | Louis Sullivan (Adler and Sullivan) -1890-1 -richness of decoration b/c one of the trademarks of his architecture - |
Guaranty Building, Buffalo, NY | Louis Sullivan (Adler and Sullivan) -1895 - - |
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company, Chicago | Louis Sullivan (Adler and Sullivan) -1899 -Art nouveau - |
Merchants National Bank, Iowa | Louis Sullivan (Adler and Sullivan) -1914 - - |
Farmer’s & Merchant Union Bank, Wisconsin | Louis Sullivan (Adler and Sullivan) -1919-20 - - |
Frederick Robie House | Frank Lloyd Wright -1908-9 -!st success is domestic architecture and his prairie houses<br><br>Departed from W. tradition of arch<br><br>Analytic cubism, Mondrian, etc. - |
Johnson Wax Building, Racine, Wisconsin | Frank Lloyd Wright -1936-39 -Commercial; Gropius influence - |
The Guggenheim, NYC | Frank Lloyd Wright -1943; 1957-59 -most idiosyncratic creation by Wright - |
Failing Water (aka The Kauffman House) | Frank Lloyd Wright -1936 -called the most beautiful house in Am, at least best well known<br><br>organic architecture - |
The Admiral David Farragut Memorial | Augustus Saint-Gaudens -1881 -example of civil war memorials that will soon populate almost all American cities - |
Shaw Memorial, Boston | Augustus Saint-Gaudens -1884-96 - - |
The Adams Memorial | Augustus Saint-Gaudens -1886-91 - - |
General Sherman Memorial, NYC | Augustus Saint-Gaudens -* -*Last major work, demonstrates he is a perfectionist in art and technique - |
Diana, gilded bronze | Augustus Saint-Gaudens -1894 - - |
detail of Lincoln Monument | Daniel Chester French -1922 - - |
The Minute Man | Daniel Chester French -1873 - - |
The Angel of Death and the Sculptor, bronze? | Daniel Chester French -1891-92 - - |
Priestess and Infant Faun, bronze | Frederick Mac Monnies -1893 -Boston Public Library; REAL MODEL - |
Triumph of Civic Virtue | Frederick Mac Monnies -1928 - - |
Struggle of the Two Natures in Man | George Grey Barnard -1894 -Carrara marble - |
Entrance to State Capital of Pennsylvania | George Grey Barnard -* - - |
Whistling Boy | Frank Duveneck -1872 - - |
Turkish Page | Frank Duveneck -1876 -Munich style - |
A Friendly Call | William Merritt Chase -1895 c -Whistler influence - |
In the Studio | William Merritt Chase -1880 c - - |
Near the Beach, Shinnecock | William Merritt Chase -1898 c - - |
At the Seaside | William Merritt Chase -1892 c - - |
Mrs. Chase: Lady with a White Shawl | William Merritt Chase -1893 - - |
The Red Bridge | Julian Alden Weir -1895 - - |
Winter Landscape | Theodore Robinson -1889 -Could say tech isn't impressionism... - |
Beneath the Snow | John Twachtman -1902 c -Reduced to flat tonal areas that anticipate abstract painting f 20th century - |
Union Square in Spring | Childe Hassam -1896 - - |
Rainy Day, Boston | Childe Hassam -1885 -Tonal - |
Grand Prix Day | Childe Hassam -1887 - - |
Washington in Spring | Childe Hassam -1890 - - |
July Night | Childe Hassam -1900 - - |
Flag Day | Childe Hassam -1916 c -*Most famous works<br><br>Influence of Manet - |
Point Lobos, Carmel | Childe Hassam -1914 - - |
Room of Flowers | Childe Hassam -1894? - - |
Edna + Wee Moreen | Robert Henri -1915 + 1926 - - |
Snow in New York | Robert Henri -1902 - - |
Eva Green | Robert Henri -* - - |
Little Dutch Girl in White | Robert Henri -* - - |
Chez Mouquin | William Glackens -1905 - - |
Hammerstein’s Roof | William Glackens -1901 c - - |
London Hippodrome | Everett Shinn -1902 - - |
Early Morning, Paris, n.d. | Everett Shinn -1900 c - - |
The Spielers | George Luks -1905 -Inspiration in Manet and Velaz, partic in earthy/good natured themes of Halls - |
Alan Street | George Luks -* - - |
Cliff Dwellers | George Bellows -1913 -Bellows at his best<br><br>One of the most powerful/richly painted examples of tenement life<br><br>As important as print maker as painter<br>One of Ashcan's superstars - |
Both Members of this Club | George Bellows -1909 - - |
Stag at Sharkeys | George Bellows -1909 -Never was boxing so in terms of classical forms - |
42 Kids/Boys on the Riverbank | George Bellows -* - - |
McSorley’s Bar | John Sloan -1912 - - |
Backyards, Greenwich Village | John Sloan -1914 -sense of beauty - |
6th avenue, Elevated at 3rd Street | John Sloan -1928 - - |
South Beach Bathers | John Sloan -* - - |
Wake of Ferry, Wake of Ferry 2 | John Sloan -* - - |
Central Park | Maurice Prendergast -1908-10 - - |
Decorative Composition | Maurice Prendergast -1914 c - - |
Melting Snow | Ernest Lawson -1910 c - - |
Peggy’s Cove Nova Scotia | Ernest Lawson -1910 c - - |
Untitled | Arthur B. Davies - - - |
Early Sunday Morning Cape Cod? Lighthouse | Edward Hopper -* - - |
Cape Cod Morning? | Edward Hopper -* - - |
Nighthawks | Edward Hopper -1942 -Best known painting<br>Hemmingway's "The Killers" - |
Automat | Edward Hopper -1927 - - |
The Evening Wind etching | Edward Hopper -1921 - - |
Eastside Interior etching | Edward Hopper -* - - |
Third Avenue El | Reginald Marsh -1931 -Tempera on masonite - |
Coney Island | Reginald Marsh -* - - |
Tattoo and a Haircut | Reginald Marsh -* - - |
Sunbathers | Reginald Marsh -* - - |
Tuesday Night at the Savoy | Reginald Marsh -1930 -Caricatures in style; distorted - |
Negroes on Rockaway Beach | Reginald Marsh -1934 -Colors/glazes, egg tempera, luminosity<br /><br />Rubens influence, Titian and Tintoretto; human sexuality<br><br>Race = incidental - |
High Yellow (aka The Yellow Dress) | Reginald Marsh -1930 c - - |
Georgia O’Keefe | Stieglitz -* - - |
Steerage | Stieglitz -* - - |
Pioneer Days and Early Settlers | Thomas Hart Benton -1935-6 -*His major regionalist work - |
detail: Huck Finn + Lithograph | Thomas Hart Benton -* - - |
Persephone | Thomas Hart Benton -1939 -Power of Greek mythology - |
Susanna and the Elders.1938 | Thomas Hart Benton -* - - |
Plowing Down Under1934 | Thomas Hart Benton -* -Marrys idea of artistic creativity w/ uniquely regional themes; captures changing place of Midwest - |
Cotton Pickers | Thomas Hart Benton -* - - |
Lithograph of Aaron | Thomas Hart Benton -* -Succeeds as displaying a black man w/ feeling/warmth - |
The Mississippi | John Steuart Curry -1935 - - |
Tornado over Kansas | John Steuart Curry -* - - |
American Gothic | Grant Wood -1930 -*Backdrop = carpenter Gothic - |
Arbor Day | Grant Wood -1932 - - |
Woman with Plant | Grant Wood - - - |
Midnight Rider Paul Revere | Grant Wood -* - - |
January Corn Stacks in Snow | Grant Wood -* - - |
Rappaports | Stuart Davis -1952 - - |
Untitled NY Mural | Stuart Davis -1932 - - |
Bicycle Wheel | Marcel Duchamp -1913 - - |
The Fountain | Marcel Duchamp -1917 -Society of Individual Artists refused - |
Nude Descending the Staircase | Marcel Duchamp -* - - |
The Gift | Man Ray (Dada) - - - |
Ingres’ Violin | Man Ray (Dada) - - - |
Object | Joseph Cornell: -1941 -"Assemblage" for his constructions - |
Box Construction | Joseph Cornell: - - - |
Black Wall | Louise Nevelson (Hans Hoffmann) -1964 -Black = essence of the universe<br><br>Abstract but poetic/spiritual message/feel; lingering reference to the objects former existence<br><br>Maintenance nightmare - |
Another Wall… Gold | Louise Nevelson (Hans Hoffmann) -* - - |
Red Canna + "Morning Glory" | Georgia O’Keeffe -1923 - - |
Jack in the Pulpit | Georgia O’Keeffe -1923 c - - |
Radiator Builidng at Night | Georgia O’Keeffe -1927 - - |
Shelton Hotel | Georgia O’Keeffe -1926 - - |
Rancho Church | Georgia O’Keeffe -1930 - - |
Portrait of a German Officer | Marsden Hartley (Der Blaue Reiter) -1914 - - |
My Egypt | Charles Demuth -1927 - - |
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold | Charles Demuth -1928 -Inspired by Carl Williams poem/homage - |
Love Love Love | Charles Demuth -1928 -Gertrude Stein - |
Upper Deck | Charles Sheeler -1929 - - |
American Landscape | Charles Sheeler -* - - |
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail | Alexander Calder -1939 - - |
Going Fishing | Arthur Garfield Dove -* - - |
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building | Lescaze and Howe -1931-32 - - |
Farnsworth House | Mies van der Rohe -1950 (Illinois) -Typical of "less is more" - |
Seagram Building | Mies van der Rohe -1954-58 (NYC) -Whether designing schools, apt, or office buildings, he uses the same simple rect<br /><br />*Masterpiece<br><br>Modern corporate America itself; dominated America after WWII for 20-30 years - |