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John White – Leader of the lost colony at Roanoke; his pictures of Native Americans and vegetation convinced many to invest in or settle in Virginia colony.
Paul Revere – One of the Sons of Liberty; published a rabble-rousing but historically dubious account of the Boston Massacre.
John Trumbull – First great American nationalist painter; painted battle scenes and portraits depicting Americans as heroic and noble.
Thomas Eakins – Realist painter of the post-bellum period; contemporary and friend of Walt Whitman; focused on the ordinary; most famous work is The Gross Clinic.
Frederic Edwin Church – Famous painter of the mid-19th century; part of the Hudson River School; specialized in large landscapes depicting the unspoiled beauty of the wilderness; believed in manifest destiny and westward migration.
Hudson River School – Distinctly American movement in art in the mid-19th century; focused on large landscapes and natural settings; artists included Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church.
John Singer Sargent – Outgrowth and reaction to the realist movement; added elements of nature and Impressionism in his works; example shown is Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.
Thomas Nast – Artist of the Gilded Age; famous for his cartoons depicting corporate greed and excess; also created the enduring image of St. Nicholas.
Winslow Homer – Another realist of the post-bellum period; focused on making the painted image as close as possible to reality; most famous work is Gulf Stream, depicting a black sailor in boat surrounded by sharks.
Mary Cassatt invested relatively quiet and unexceptional moments in her frequent depictions of children, with considerable dynamism in handling and composition.
Mary Cassatt – Considered one of the finest painters of the 19th century; Cassatt’s work was largely overlooked in her country and time; part of the realist movement but with shades of Impressionism.
George Bellows: It is likely that Bellows intended Both Members of This Club as an allusion to the recent and much-publicized success of the African American professional prizefighter Jack Johnson, who had won the world heavyweight championship in 1908.
Robert Henri (painter) American, 1865 - 1929
Ashcan School – New York movement in the early 20th century in which artists sought to depict the emotional realities of urban life; example shown is Queensborough Bridge by Ernest Lawson.
Edward Hopper – A realist of the early 20th century; focused on distinctly American images of society; subjects included loneliness and isolation; most famous work is Nighthawks.
Grant Wood – Most famous for his painting American Gothic, a depiction of agrarian Americans at the beginning of the Depression Era.
WPA Art – Artistic works commissioned by the Works Progress Administration, designed to give jobs to artists willing to create works for public consumption; emphasized classic American values of hard work and ingenuity; example shown is Hay Making by Marguerite Zorach.
Jackson Pollock – Greatest of the American abstract expressionists; artwork is non-representational and often involves dripping paint on canvas for effect.
Roy Lichtenstein – Pop artist who used fanciful comic strips to comment on mass consumerism and conspicuous consumption.
Mark Rothko – Another famous abstract expressionist; often used bright colors and geometric shapes to influence tone and mood; example shown is Orange & Yellow.
Roy Lichtenstein – Pop artist who used fanciful comic strips to comment on mass consumerism and conspicuous consumption.
Lois Mailou Jones: The Ascent of Ethiopia: 1932 - expressed the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance, which encouraged artists to use African imagery and symbols as a form of spiritual uplift, linking people of African descent with their historical past and their cultural present.
Ellis Wilson: Funeral Procession (1950)
Archibald Motley: a bold and highly original modernist and one of the great visual chroniclers of twentieth-century American life.
Andy Warhol – Greatest of the pop artists; used the mass-production technique of silk-screening to produce and reproduce images; commented on fame, consumerism, identity, and conformity.
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