Lesson
#10:
Great
American
Artists
Pages 64-85
Native
American Art
• Decorative
baskets and
pottery
• Handwoven
cloth
• Beaded
jewelry and
clothing
Art in the American Colonies
• Early settlers had
little time to think
about art
• Puritans – art
considered a waste
of time
• Early American art portraits
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe
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John Singleton Copley
Watson and the Shark
J
Gilbert Stuart
J
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The Skater, 1782
National Gallery of Art, D.C.
Portrait of George Washington
• America‟s first
group of
landscape
painters
• Founded by
Thomas Cole
• Included Durand,
Bierstadt, Inness,
Gifford, Kensett,
Frederic Church
• Frederic Church a pupil of Thomas
Cole
Hudson River School
The Iceberg
Frederic Church
Thomas Cole
Voyage of Life: Youth (1842)
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Frederic Church
The Icebergs
Dallas Museum of Art
George Caleb Bingham
Raftsmen Playing Cards
The St. Louis Art Museum
Winslow
Homer
Prisoners from the Front
• Painted battle scenes during the Civil War
• Became the greatest seascape painter in America
after the war
Winslow Homer:
Breezing Up
• Quaker folk
artist
• Many versions
of The
Peaceable
Kingdom
• Biblical theme
of lion lying
down with the
calf
• William Penn &
Indians often in
background
Edward Hicks
The Peaceable Kingdom
Frederic
Remington
The Old Stagecoach of the West
Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth
The Cowboy (1902)
Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth
James Whistler
Arrangement in Black and Grey No. 1
Thomas
Eakins
• Philadelphia
artist
• Encouraged
AfricanAmericans
and females
to consider
careers in art
The Gross Clinic
• Noted AfricanAmerican
Impressionist
• Encouraged by
Thomas Eakins
• Studied in Paris
during the 1880‟s
• The Banjo Lesson
• Christ & His Mother
Studying the
Scriptures
Henry O. Tanner
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Christ and His Mother
Studying the Scriptures,
Dallas Museum of Art
The Banjo
Lesson
Henry
O.Tanner
• American
female
Impressionist
• Encouraged by
Philadelphia
artist, Thomas
Eakins
• Mothers with
children
provided the
theme for many
of her works
Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
A Ride in a Rowing Boat
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Sleepy Baby
Mary Cassatt
Dallas Museum of Art
The Bath, Mary Cassatt
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Mary Cassatt
John Singer Sargent
• Son of
American
parents
• studied art in
Paris
• Master portrait
painter
• “the only living
old master”
Dorothy
Dallas Museum of Art
Daughters
of Edward
Darley Boit
John
Singer
Sargent
George Wesley Bellows
Stag at Sharkey’s, 1909
• Belonged to
group of
illustrators in
New York
called “The
Eight”
• Leader of the
group was
Robert Henri
Cleveland Museum of Art
Georgia O‟Keeffe
Cow’s Skull: Red, White & Blue
• Born in Sun Prairie,
Wisconsin
• Moved to West Texas
and taught art in
Amarillo
• “part plant, part
landscape”
Georgia
O‟Keeffe
Poppies
Black Irises
Which
American
artist do you
prefer,
Georgia
O‟Keeffe or
Frederic
Church?
Joseph Stella
The Brooklyn
Bridge:
Variation on an
Old Theme,
1939
Whitney Museum of
American Art
Edward Hopper
1882-1967
• Pupil of
Robert Henri
(“The Eight”)
• Hopper‟s
paintings
captured the
loneliness of
city life
Edward Hopper
Lighthouse Hill
Nighthawks, 1942
Edward Hopper
Art Institute of Chicago
American Scene Painters
(Regionalists)
• Grant
Wood
• Norman
Rockwell
• Andrew
Wyeth
• John
Curry
3
American
Gothic
Grant Wood
Art Institute of
Chicago
Third Most Recognized
Painting in the World
Rosie the Riveter
Norman Rockwell
Andrew Wyeth
Christina’s World
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance:
Artistic and Literary Renewal for
African-AmericAns in the 1920’s
•Aaron
Douglas
•Jacob
Lawrence
•Palmer
Hayden
Right:
Above:
The Crucifixion
Portrait of a Lady
Aaron Douglas
•William
Johnson
Jacob
Lawrence
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Man on a Scaffold
Tombstones
Jacob
Lawrence
Action Painters
• Jackson
Pollock
• Willem de
Kooning
• Franz
Kline
Pink Angels
Willem de Kooning
Action Painting:
Jackson Pollock
Blue Poles
Jackson Pollock
Autumn Rhythm, 1950
Jackson Pollock
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Willem de
Kooning
• “Action
painter”
• Violent color
• Smears and
slashes of
paint
Woman and Bicycle
Franz Kline:
studies in black and white
Painting No. 2
New York, New York
Alexander
Calder
• Son and
grandson of
Pennsylvania
sculptors
• Moved to
Paris
• Invented
“mobiles”
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
Museum of Modern Art, NY
David Smith
• America‟s most famous
architect
• Guggenheim Museum,
New York
• Falling Water
Frank Lloyd
Wright
The Guggenheim
Museum
Kalita Humphreys Theatre
Dallas, Texas
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Falling Water
Frank Lloyd Wright
Claes Oldenburg:
“monuments of everyday objects”
Giant Clothespin
Warsaw, Poland
Stake Hitch
formerly at Dallas Museum of Art
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Pop Art:
Jasper
Johns
Three Flags
Whitney Museum of American Art
Color Field Painting:
Mark Rothko
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White Center, 1950
Orange and Yellow, 1956
Pop Art: Roy Lichtenstein
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Drowning Girl
Pop Art:
Andy Warhol
REVIEW
QUESTION #1:
What is the name
of the Dutch artist
known for creating
abstract works
employing
horizontal and
vertical lines
punctuated with
blocks of color?
Piet Mondrian
REVIEW QUESTION #2:
Who painted this fresco and
what is its title?
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ANSWER:
Raphael
The School of Athens
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REVIEW
QUESTION #3:
What is the
name of this
painting and
who was the
Mannerist artist
who created it?
J
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The Burial
of Count
Orgaz
El Greco
REVIEW
QUESTION
#4:
What is the
title of this
painting and
who is the
„Fauves‟
artist?
The Red Studio
by Henri Matisse
REVIEW
QUESTION
#4:
What is the
title of the
painting?
Who is the
artist?
The Three
Musicians
Pablo
Picasso
REVIEW QUESTION #5:
What is the title of this picture by the
Surrealist, Salvador Dali?
The Persistence
of Memory
Salvador Dali
J
REVIEW
QUESTION
#6:
What is the
name of the
„fantasy‟ artist
who created
this work?
J
Paul Klee
Park near Lucerne
REVIEW
QUESTION #7:
What is the
name of the
„Fauves‟ artist
known for his
works that
resemble
stained glass?
J
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Georges
Rouault
The Old King
REVIEW
QUESTION
#8:
What is the
title of this
painting by
Marc
Chagall?
J
J
I and My
Village
Marc Chagall
REVIEW
QUESTION
#9:
Who is the
American
architect who
designed this
residence in
Pennsylvania?
J
J
Falling
Water
Frank
Lloyd
Wright
REVIEW
QUESTION
#10:
Name the
abstract
artist known
for creating
works which
were part
plant and
part
landscape?
J
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Georgia
O‟Keeffe
Poppies
Review
question
#11:
What is the
name of the
artist who
invented the
mobile?
J
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Alexander
Calder
Lobster Trap
and Fish Tail
REVIEW QUESTION #12:
Who was the American artist known for
this unfinished portrait of George
Washington?
J
Gilbert Stuart
J
Gilbert Stuart
REVIEW QUESTION #13: What is
the name of the artist who created
this mural?
J
Guernica
Pablo Picasso
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REVIEW QUESTION #14:
Which American artist was known for
his color field painting?
J
White Center, 1950
Orange and Yellow, 1956
Color Field Painting:
Mark Rothko
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White Center, 1950
Orange and Yellow, 1956
REVIEW QUESTION #15: Which
“Pop” artist painted, Drowning Girl?
J
Drowning Girl
Pop Art: Roy Lichtenstein
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Drowning Girl
REVIEW QUESTION #16: Who is the
American architect who designed,
Falling Water?
Falling Water
Frank Lloyd Wright