American Art

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American Art

• From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

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The American Colonies and the Emerging Nation

• Portraiture
• Landscapes
• Sculptures

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John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)Watson and the
Shark (1778)
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John Singleton CopleyMargaret Kemble Gage
(1771)Mrs. Daniel Rogers (Elizabeth Gorham
Rogers) (1762)
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John Singleton CopleyThe Death of Major Peirson
6 January 1781 (1783)
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Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)The Artist in
his Museum, 1822 Portrait of George Washington,
1782
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Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)Portrait of George
Washington (1796)Mrs. Perez Morton (1802)
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Thomas Cole (1801-1848)Landscape, 1825
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Horatio Greenough (1805-1852)George Washington,
1840Rescue, 1853
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Nineteenth-Century Art

• The Hudson River School and the Lure of the West
• Impressionism and the Gilded Age

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George Catlin (1796-1872)From Indian Gallery,
1832
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Asher Durand (1796-1886)Kindred Spirits,
1849Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York, 1848
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Childe Hassam (1859-1935)Union Square in Spring,
1896 The South Ledges, Appledore, 1913
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Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)Lydia Reading the
Morning Paper, 1885The Bath, 1890
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Mary CassattWoman in Black at the Opera,
1880Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1884
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)Hercules and the
Hydra, 1922-25
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John Singer SargentMadam X, 1883 Ellen Terry
as Lady Macbeth, 1889
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Winslow Homer (1836-1910)A Fair Wind, 1876The
Gulf Stream, 1899
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Abbott Thayer (1849-1921)Winged Figure, 1889
A Virgin, 1893
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Twentieth-Century Art

• Artists in the twentieth century chose two
  distinct ways to depict modernism and the
  excitement of progress realism and abstaction.

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Georgia OKeefe (1887-1986)Two Calla Lillies on
Pink, 1928 Pink and Blue II, 1919
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Edward Hopper (1882-1967)Nighthawks, 1942
Cape Cod Morning, 1950
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Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)The Library, 1969
The Ironers, 1943
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Andrew Wyeth (1917--)Cristinas World, 1948
Master Bedroom,