Readings for April 20th
Barbara Novak, "Grand Opera and the Still Small Voice," in Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 (Oxford UP, 1980,. 1995) [xeroxed distributed in class 4/20]
Relevant Web Sites:
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
Selective 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)