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The Hudson River School: 1820s-1870

The Hudson River School: 1820s-1870. Background. These artists captured the undiluted power of nature Paint the nation’s most spectacular and undeveloped areas [the new Garden of Eden]. Nature was the best source of wisdom & fulfillment.

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The Hudson River School: 1820s-1870

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  1. TheHudson RiverSchool: 1820s-1870

  2. Background • These artists captured the undiluted power of nature • Paint the nation’s most spectacular and undeveloped areas [the new Garden of Eden]. • Nature was the best source of wisdom &fulfillment. • They created visual embodiments of the ideals ofthe Transcendentalists.*Painting is the vehicle through which the universal mind could reach the mind of mankind.* Art is the agent of moral & spiritual transformation.

  3. Characteristics of the Hudson River School A new art for a new land. Paint grand, scenic vistas. Humans are an insignificant [even non-existent] part of the picture. Experiment with affects of light on waterand sky. Symbol of the school  a broken tree stump

  4. Issues/Themes Addressed by the Antebellum Artists • Transcendentalist thinking. • Westward expansion. • American nationalism --> What is America?* Creation of a national mythology • Racism and Native Americans. • Concern for political extremism. • The price paid for progress and the advances of civilization.

  5. In Nature’s WonderlandThomas Doughty, 1835

  6. NiagaraFrederic Church, 1857

  7. View of the Catskills, Early AutumnThomas Cole, 1837

  8. View from Mt. Holyoke: The OxbowThomas Cole, 1836

  9. The Course of Empire: The Savage StateThomas Cole, 1834

  10. The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or The Pastoral State - Thomas Cole, 1836

  11. The Course of Empire: ConsummationThomas Cole, 1836

  12. The Course of Empire: DestructionThomas Cole, 1836

  13. The Course of Empire: DesolationThomas Cole, 1836

  14. Kindred Spirits – Asher Durand, 1849

  15. Watercolors by John Audubon Stanley Hawk Barred Owl

  16. The Luminists

  17. Boston Harbor from Constitution WharfRobert Salmon, 1833

  18. The Constitution in Boston HarborFitz Hugh Lane, 1848-49

  19. Fur Trappers Descending the MissouriGeorge Caleb Bingham, 1845

  20. TheClassical Styles of Greece & Rome

  21. Neo-Classical Architecture: U. S. Customs House, 1836

  22. Jefferson Rotunda(Univ. of VA), 1819-26

  23. The Capitol Rotunda

  24. Patriotic Art

  25. The Landing of the PilgrimsUnknown Artist, 1830s

  26. Washington Crossing the DelawareEmmanuel Gottlieb Leutze,1851

  27. George Washington Horatio Greenough, 1841

  28. Our Banner in the Sky - Frederic Church, 1861

  29. The“Frontier”Artists

  30. Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees - Charles Bird King, 1821 1. The “Noble Savage” Image

  31. Buffalo Bull’s Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe - George Caitlin, 1832 2. The “Stoic” Indian

  32. Mato-Tope – Karl Bodmer, 1830s 3. The “Demonic” Indian

  33. Osage Scalp DanceJohn Mix Stanley, 1845

  34. Last of the Race – Tompkins Matteson, 1847 4. The “Doomed” Indian

  35. Dying Indian Chief Contemplating the Progress of CivilizationThomas Crawford, 1857 A portend of the future??

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