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The Architect's Dream
Thomas Cole
1840
Turning to Gothic America. Egyptian pyramid and hypostyle hall, Greek temple, Roman aqueduct in background. In shadows, Gothic church seems to be glowing to life mimicking the points of trees. Figure turned to Gothic represents a turn from the authority of classical design ideas.
Romanticism and Sentimentality, turn from clarity and symmetry and rationality to emotion, mystery, and irregular diagnols. |
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"Lyndhurst" near Tarrytown, NY
Alexander Jackson Davis
1838
Antebellum America attention to visual effects, Gothic style. Structure irregular and unpredictable.
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Silver Sauceboat
Anthony Rasch & Co.
1810
Ancient Egypt signaled concern with death and immortality. Combines Egyptian tastes to items of household use. Pleasureable discomfort = pain and terror experience at safe remove. Antebellum
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Domestic Happiness
Lilly Martin Spencer
1849
19th Century, men earned living outside the house and women's job to raise morals and have a warm home for men to come home to.
Wife in charge of the home and children, safe refuge from external world. |
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Young Husband: First Marketing
Lilly Martin Spencer
1856
Men had to go out and buy food, not growing it anymore. Had to bring home to wife.
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Beatrice Cenci
Harriet Hosmer
1856
Plotted to murder abusive father, beautiful/calm woman facing unrighteous fate.
Hosmer didn't carve, designed in clay and plaster molds.
Figure's serenity and faith (rosary) confirm all that sentimental culture wanted to believe: women's purity, selflessness, and devotion to family. |
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The Greek Slave
Hiram Powers
1843
Most famous sentimentality. 1st nude sculpture to be accpeted, rosary beads and left hand covers up. Committment to faith and sentimental propriety. Tour aroung Europe and America.
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The Old Indian Arrowmaker and His Daughter
Edmonia Lewis
1872
Half AA / Half Native, Explored racial concerns in a neoclassical idiom. Not depicted as a doomed race, endows them with a craft (hardwork and independence).
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Shaker Oval Boxes
Mid 19th Century
Swallowtailed Joints
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An Emblem of the Heavenly Sphere
Polly Collins
1854
Record of spiritual visions. People seen as instruments.
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Marimaid
Mary Ann Willson
1810-25
Pennsylvania "Dutch" Yuscht for Schnee = Just for Pretty
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Birth and Baptismal Certificate for George Manger
Friedrich Bandel
1810
Fraktur - fractured writing
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Earthenware face jugs
South Carolina
1820's
African American communities. Jug form important in Africa
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Saint Tammany Weathervane
mid 19th century |
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Baltimore Album Quilt
Mary Simon and Others
1847-50
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Jane Ann Campbell
Ammi Phillips
1820
Drapery in background pulling away from folk art. Similar to Freake.
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Girl in Red Dress
Ammi Phillips
1830-5
Flat.
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The Peaceable Kingdom
Edward Hicks
1820-1840
Vernacular traditions.
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The Declaration of Independence
John Trumbull
1786-97
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After a Long Cruise (Salts Ashore)
John Carlin
1857
Combining street-scene reporting with moral commentary. Transforms racial and class antagonism into benign form of humor
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Post Office
David Gilmour Blythe
1859-63
Children are demonic and go off base human impulse, darkest outlook of any US antebellum genre painter. Satirical dismay with modern cvilization. Corruption trumps honesty and art records the vices of the times
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War News from Mexico
Richard Caton Woodville
1848
Lively depiction of home front at a time of national crisis. Outcome of war had a direct bearing on how far west congress would permit slavery.
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The Gallery of the Louvre
Samuel F. B. Morse
1833
Production and distribution of culture as its subject. Attitude toward Europe = learn from it, admire it, do not be in awe of it.
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the Painter's Triumph
William Sidney Mount
1838
Scoffs at high-mindedness of Louvre. Free of the past, turned back on imported culture.
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Farmer's Nooning
William Sidney Mount
1836
Typical lazy blacks? Anti-abolitionist political allegory? Blacks being roused from long sleep of subsrvience?
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Eel Spearing at Setauket
William Sidney Mount
1845
Elemental harmony in keeping the two seperate. Coexisting in peaceful/productive balance
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The Money Diggers
John Quidor
1832
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Antony van Corlear Brought into the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant
John Quidor
1839
anti-irish sentiment. both suggest animostiy against irish could spill over into antagonism against blacks. Propaganda
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