April 20, 1998
AMSH 3002y
Early 19th Century
American Painting:
Transcendental Landscapes, Luminous Seascapes
Important Links:
Hudson River School Paintings at Sweet Briar
http://w3.wo.sbc.edu/ArtHistory/MacMurtrie/HudsonRiverIntro.html
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, Mass) http://www.pem.org/
Reed College 19thc paintings collection
-- http://web.reed.edu/academic/departments/am_studies/19th_century_amerart.html
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/
17th/18thCentury
Portrait Painters
Americans scorn art
"as no more than any other useful trade, carpenter, tailor
... not as one of the noblest arts in the world"
John Singleton Copley
Portrait done of the Mason Children
(1670)
http://www.thin
ker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/01.html
John Foster, Woodcut of Rev. Richard Mather (c.,1670)
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/lis182/011.html
Peter Pelham engraving of Cotton Mather
http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mclark/mather.jpg
John Smibert 1684-1751 (to
Colonies, 1729; Boston)
Portrait of Major General Paul Mascarene, 1729
http://www.lacma.org/Masterpieces/mast012.htm
Portrait of Jonathan Edwards, c. 1740s
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/earlyAC/JEdwards.htm
Portrait of Samuel Johnson, c. 1750s,
unknown artist, Columbiana Room, CU
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/kings/imagegallery/johnsons.gif
John Singleton Copley 1738 - 1815 (left for England, 1774)
John Singleton Copley portrait of Myles
Cooper, 2nd President of King's College
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/kings/imagegallery/cooperm.gif
John Singleton Copley portrait of Samuel
Verplank (King's College 1758)
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/kings/imagegallery/verplancks.gif
John Singleton Copley, Mary Turner
Sargent (1763)
http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/slide-5.html
John Singleton Copley, Portrait of a
Lady (1771)
http://www.lacma.org/Masterpieces/mast013.htm
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the
Shark (1778)
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/maritime/gallery/img007.htm
William Rimmer (1870) Mrs. Bamberger
Comes to America
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/maritime/gallery/img002.htm
Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827),
portrait of Gunning Bedford, Jr.
http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/slide-5.html
Charles Wilson Peale, portarit of George
washington (1777)
http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/exhibitions/peale/tour/5-peale-118-big.jpg
19thC Landscapes/Seascapes
I desire to be part
"of the intellectual branch of the art. Portraits have none
of it;
landscape has some of it, but history has it wholly." --
S.F. Morse
Thomas Birch (1779-1851 -- Mouth of the
Delaware (1828)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/art/images/95l.jpg
Hudson River School Paintings at Sweet
Briar
http://w3.wo.sbc.edu/ArtHistory/MacMurtrie/HudsonRiverIntro.html
Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire (1836), New-York Historical Society
Thomas Cole, "The Oxbow," 1836
[The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/NATURE/oxbow.html
Robert Salmon, Harbor Scene
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/maritime/gallery/img089.htm
Robert Salmon, Packet Ship United States
http://www.pem.org/mpd/t1271.htm
Currier & Ives Clipper Ship,
'Nightingale' (1854)
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/maritime/gallery/img091.htm
Robert Luscomb (1851) Passing Marblehead
Light Bound for West Africa
http://www.pem.org/mpd/t1271.htm
Fitz Hugh Lane, Approaching
Storm, Owl's Head (1860),
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/maritime/gallery/img003.htm
Fitz Hugh Lane (1851) Ship St. Lawrence
Picking Up a Boston Pilot
http://www.pem.org/mpd/images/l0753.jpg
Fitz Hugh Lane, Owl's Head, Penobscot
Bay, Maine (1862)
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/maritime/gallery/img097.htm
James Butterswoth The Great Republic
(1853)
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/maritime/gallery/img035.htm
James E. Buttersworth, ( 1817-1894 )
Packet Ship Dreadnought Approaching New York (1853)
http://www.pem.org/mpd/thumbs/s0084.jpg
John Frederick Kensett (1850s) Ships in Ice Off Ten Pound Island (MFA, Boston) http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/%7Ermccaugh/maritime/gallery/img094.htm
John Kensett -- On the Connecticut Shore (1869)
http://web.reed.edu/academic/departments/am_studies/19th_century_amerart.html
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, Mass) http://www.pem.org/
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904)
Sailing Off the Coast (1869)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/art/images/95l.jpg
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Bibliography:
Neil Harris, The Artist in American Society: The Formative Years, 1790-1860 (Chicago, 1966, 1982)
Barbara Novak, American Painting of
the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism and the
American Experience (1969)
Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875 (Oxford, 1980. 1995)
John Wilderming, A History of American Marine Painting (Little, Brown, 1968)
Roger B. Stein, Seascape and the American Imagination (Whitney Museum, 1975)
John P. Driscoll, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School (Cornell, 1997)
