American Art Movements Overview: From Colonial to Early Modern Period

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2. The Colonial Period Portraiture

3. Portrait of Helen Willis ca. 1740 Portrait of Mr. Daniel Rea, c. 1757 Joseph Badger 1708-1765

4. The Peale Family Group 1773 The Artist and his Museum Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827)

5. Young lady with a Bird and dog 1767 Boy with Squirrel (Henry Pelham), 1765, John Singleton Copley 1738 [1] - 1815 Self-portrait,1780-1784

6. The Federal Period Neoclassicism, portraiture, History painting genre

7. The Death of General Montgomery at the Attack on Quebec, 1786 Washington at Verplank's Point, New York, 1790 John Trumbull 1756 - 1843

8. Marquis de Lafayette,” 1825-26 Samuel F.B. Morse 1791-1872

9. Portrait of the artists daughter Rosalba Peale 1820 Rubens Peale with a Geranium 1801 Rembrandt Peale 1778–1860

10. "Venus Rising from the Sea—A Deception (After the Bath)," circa 1822 Raphaelle Pealle (1774–1825)

11. Romantic Period American School of landscape, luminism, genre, primitive-folk

12. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscapepainters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. The paintings for which the movement is named depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and the White Mountains; eventually works by the second generation of artists associated with the school expanded to include other locales. Luminism is an American landscape painting style of the 1850s – 1870s, characterized by effects of light in landscapes, through using aerial perspective, and concealing visible brushstrokes. Luminist landscapes emphasize tranquility, and often depict calm, reflective water and a soft, hazy sky.

13. The Voyage of Life – Youth 1842 The Oxbow 1846 Thomas Cole, 1801–1848

14. Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845 Jolly Flatboatmen 1857 The County Election 1851-52 George Caleb Bingham

15. Eel Spearing at Setauket, 1845 William Sidney Mount 1807 - 1868

16. The Peaceable Kingdom, c. 1834 Edward Hicks 1780 -1849

17. Autumn in the Catskills, 1871 Kauterskill Clove, 1862 Venice1864 Sanford Gifford

18. American Renaissance Naturalism, impressionism, trompel’oeil realism, mysticism

19. Old Kentucky Home 1859 Writing to Father1863 Eastman Johnson 1824–1906

20. In the Fields 1870

21. Eastman Johnson - Comparison of Cranberry Pickers, Nantucket - 1879 and - The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket 1880 both Oil on canvas

22. Long Branch, New Jersey 1869 Life Line 1884 Winslow Homer 1836-1910

23. Max Schmitt in a Single Scull 1871 Thomas Eakins 1844-1916

24. The Pathetic Song 1881 The Gross Clinic 1875

25. Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1: The Artist’s Mother 1871 James A. M. Whistler

26. Symphony in White No. 1 Symphony in White No.2: Little White Girl

27. Nonchaloir (Repose), 1911 John Singer Sargent

28. Venetian Glass Workers In the Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight 1879

29. The Loge 1880 The Bath 1881 Mary Cassatt 1824 - 1926

30. Toilers of the Sea 1884 Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens 1888/91 Albert Pinkham Ryder 1847 - 1917

31. Early Modern Regionalism, Realism, Futurism, Precisionism

32. Regionalism Regionalism is an Americanrealistmodernart movement that was popular during the 1930s. The artistic focus was from artists who shunned city life, and rapidly developing technological advances, to create scenes of rural life. Regionalist style was at its height from 1930 to 1935, and is best-known through the so-called "Regionalist Triumvirate" of Grant Wood in Iowa, Thomas Hart Benton in Missouri, and John Steuart Curry in Kansas. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Regionalist art was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland. Regionalism bridged the gap between a completely Abstract art and Academic realism in much the same way that Impressionism and the Post-Impressionists like Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin among others had done in France a generation earlier. The Regionalists prepared the way for Abstract Expressionists to emerge in America.

33. Precisionism Influenced strongly by Cubism and Futurism, its main themes included industrialization and the modernization of the American landscape, which were depicted in precise, sharply defined, geometrical forms. The themes originated from the streamlined architecture and machinery of the early 1900s.[1] Precision artists considered themselves strictly American and tried to avoid European artistic influences Joseph Stella, Brooklyn Bridge, `1919-1920, Yale University Art Gallery Charles Demuth, Aucassin and Nicolette, oil on canvas, 1921

34. Girl Seated by the Sea Snow in New York 1902 Robert Henri 1865- 1929 He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art.

35. Early Morning 1901 Everett Shinn 1876- 1953 was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School, also known as 'the Eight.'

36. Green Ballet, 1943 Clown with Drum c. 1940

37. Wake of the Ferry 1907 John Sloan 1871 - 1951 Sun and Wind on the Roof, 1915 was a member of The Eight, he became a leading figure in the Ashcan School of realist artists. He was known for his urban genre painting and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often through his window. Sloan has been called "the premier artist of the Ashcan School who painted the inexhaustible energy and life of New York City during the first decades of the twentieth century",and an "early twentieth-century realist painter who embraced the principles of socialism and placed his artistic talents at the service of those beliefs."[

38. Williams Glackens 1870-1938 Glackens studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later moved to New York City, where he co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan Schoolart movement. The Eight are known for their realist style and are considered key figures in the realist movement. His later work was much more akin to Renior. Chez Mouquin1905

39. March Day – Washington Square

40. Dance of the Fireflies Unicorns 1906 Arthur Davies 1862 -1928

41. Stag at Sharkey's 1909 George Bellows 1882- 1925 The Circus 1912

42. Nighthawks 1942 Edward Hopper 1882- 1967

43. Summertime 1943 Chop Suey Morning Sun 1952

44. The Normandie, 1953 Reginald Marsh1898 - 1954

45. High Yaller 1936 Tattoo and Haircut 1932

46. Tragic Prelude John Steuart Curry 1897-1946 Tornado Over Kansas 1929

47. American Gothic 1930 Grant Wood 1891 -1942

48. Mountain Lake - Autumn, ca. 1910 Portrait of a German Officer 1914 Marsden Hartley 1887-1943 His work was a combination of abstraction and German Expressionism, fueled by his personal brand of mysticism.

49. The Visit Max Weber 1881 - 1961 Rush Hour, N.Y. 1915

50. Joseph Stella 1877 - 1946 was an Italian-born, AmericanFuturist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is associated with the American Precisionism movement of the 1910s-1940s. The Brooklyn Bridge 1939