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Artist: Richard Caton Woodville
Title: War News from Mexico
Date: 1848
Museum: private collection- onloan to national galloer of art DC
Medium: oil on canvas
Style: genre painting
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Mixed feelings on the war
His son became a famous artists as well - Died at 30 from morphine overdoes
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Exhibited at the american art-union in 1849
Focuses on how americans came to understand what it was all about
War with mexico was the first foreign war to have a lot of coverage in the US
Its clear the news was more effiecnt from papers then the government
Thus, Woodville’s painting is a celebra-tion not of the glories of battle, but of the business of war and of the patriotismof U. S. entrepreneurism. |
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Artist: Emanuel Leutze
Title: The Storming of the Teocalli by Cortez and His Troops
Date: 1848
Museum: Wadsworth Atheneum of Art- hartford CN
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 84x98
Style: historical painter
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Born in germany raised in the US
He supproted the uprising of peasents, workers, small buiesness in their quest for national freedom
Strong proponent of the democracy- Mixed feelings on the war
He also apinted ‘washington crossing the delaware’
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It was during the war between the US and Mexico.
13 years before Leutze did Westward the course of empire takes its way
It was a large dramatic history painting - The work is extremely detailed
Natural renderings of both figures
Setting depecits it was an actual depiction of what occurred.
Leutze divided the figures with Cortze and his troops on the left and the Aztec on the right
Its on the steps of teocalli or the sacred pyramid
Both sides have death
Spanish vicotry is indicated by bigger numbers of soilders and the flag they wave on top of the pyramid
He patterened his painting after an episode in William H. Prescott’s ‘History of the Conquest of Mexico’ 1943.
Prescott was a friend of Amos Binney (physician who comminsond the painting)
Luetze has a different rendiotnoin. - he problamizes the savages savage aztec/ civilized spanish.
Leutze( a protestant) contonies with Theodore de Bry by presenting the spaniards as just as savage as the Aztecs.
EMANUEL LEUTZE, THE STORMING OF THE TEOCALLI, 1848--BASED ON WILLIAM PRESCOTT'S DESCRIPTION IN HIS 1843 *HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.* (reference, William H. Prescott, HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO, |
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Artist: Nathaniel Jocelyn
Title: Cinque
Date: 1839
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He belonged to the abolitionist movement
He was intiailly an engraver
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Comossioned by the black abolitionest robert Purvis
It commemorated an event of that in year in which Cinque, 1 of 53 men captured by spanis slavers in the Mendi region of Africa, sold in Havanah, and being transported to Puerto Rico, led a rebllion on the ship La Amistad
The crew altered the ship at night brought it to Long Island
After 2 years of supreme court ruled the africans had been illgieally captured
Toured the northeast, appearing at numerous anti-slavery meetings
Returned to africa in 1941
Many people thought he was smart because he didn’t look like a black person |
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Artist: Robert S. Duncanson
Title: Uncle Tome and Little Eva
Date: 1853
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Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Movement: The Hudson River School
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He was african american
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Based off of Harriet Beecher Sotwe’s popular abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The composition was patterned after a wood engraving by Hammatt Billings that had appered in the 1852 illustration edition of the novel
Lake Pontchartrain, outside of New Orleans.
Reverend James Francis Conover commissioned Uncle Tom and Little Eva I in 1853 after a viewing of Duncanson’s work at the Fireman’s Hall exhibit in the same year |
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Artist: John Rogers
Title: Slave Auction
Date:1859
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Medium: Plaster
Size: small
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Movement: Genre Scene
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Yale trained engineer
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The message of the piece is twofold: slavery is an affront to the dignity and humanity of African Americans, and African American men are not going to accept this fate passively. |
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Artist: Eastmen Johnson
Title: Negro Life in the South (Kentucky home)
Date: 1859
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Medium: Oil on canvas
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Cofounder of the Metropolitian Museum of Art
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The painting was also noncommittal on the issue of slavery. Abolitionists in the North interpreted it as a condemnation of the dismal living conditions in the South, while slaveholders were confirmed in their belief that, despite somewhat “ uncomfortable” living conditions, southern slaves were basically a happy lot.
Exhibited at the National Academy of Design |
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