Art of the United States
March 2, 2017
Lecture 8: Art &
Commerce in the Gilded
Age, Part 2
Gilded Age Environments,
Domestic & Public
Eastman Johnson, Christmastime – The Blodgett Family, 1864. Oil on canvas.
Eastman Johnson, Not at
Home, 1873. Oil on canvas.
Left: Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878. Oil on Canvas. Right:
Mary Cassatt, Woman and a Girl Driving, 1881. Oil on canvas.
John Singer Sargent, Madame X, 1883-84. Oil
on canvas.
John Singer Sargent, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. PhelpsStokes, 1897. Oil on canvas.
Childe Hassam, Washington
Arch, Spring, 1890. Oil on
canvas.
William Merritt Chase, In the Studio, c. 1880. Oil on
canvas.
Thomas Dewing, After Sunset (Summer Evening), 1892. Oil on
canvas.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Gray and Black (Portrait
of the Artist’s Mother), 1871. Oil on canvas.
Architectural Revivalism
Henry Hobson Richardson, Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts,
1875.
Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1871-76.
John A. Roebling,
Brooklyn Bridge,
New York, 1869-83.
Above left: Richard Morris Hunt,
Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina,
1895. Below left: James Abbott McNeill
Whistler, Harmony in Blue and Gold:
The Peacock Room, 1876-77.
The White City
William Le Baron Jenney, Home
Insurance Building, Chicago, Illinois,
1884-85.
Henry Hobson Richardson, Marshall Field Warehouse, Chicago, Illinois, 188587.
William Holabird and Martin Roche,
Tacoma Building, Chicago, Illinois,
1887-89.
Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root,
Monadnock Building, Chicago, Illinois,
1884-92.
Left: Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri, 1890-91. Center:
Louis Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott Store, Chicago, Illinois, 1899-1904. Right:
Louis Sullivan, architectural detail, Carson Pirie Scott Store, Chicago, Illinois,
1899-1904.
Adler and Sullivan, Entrance to the Transportation Building, Chicago, Illinois,
1893.
World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, looking west (seen from rear,
Daniel Chester French’s Republic; in the distance Frederick William
MacMonnies’s The Triumph of Columbia), 1893.