Artists of the American Renaissance
Landscape
1. Thomas Cole (1801-48) in Catskills 1825
- founder of the Hudson River School
- "In the pure blue sky is the highest sublime... All is deep, unbroken repose up there voiceless, motionless..."
- idealized, not literal - landscape affected character - color affected emotion
- The Oxbow
- Course of Empire - patron Lumen Reed
- National Academy of Design
- 4 ../../USPics18 from the Munson Williams Proctor Institute on the Cole page of the Living Schoolbook Project at Syracuse
2. Asher Durand (1796-1886)
- Landscape, 1866 , from the Durand page of the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
- Kindred Spirits painted of Cole, Cullen Bryant outdoors
- president of National Academy 1850-61
- art unions, catalogs, magazines (Godeys)
3. Frederick Church (1826-1900)
- only major artist to study under Cole
- View of the Hudson River Valley from Olana, 1867 , from the Church page of the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
- Cotopaxi, Icebergs
4. Albert Bierstadt
- travelled throughout West, Rockies
- Yellowstone Falls
- Near Salt Lake City Utah, 1881c , from the Bierstadt page of the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
5. View additional examples of the Hudson River School at the Desmond-Fish Library online exhibit of 1000 works of art.
Genre artists
- ordinary activity of ordinary people
- "the idea is the essence of art" - realistic style, but idealized subject
- to uplift, reform, educate, inspire
1. John L. Krimmel (1790-1821)
- immigrant from Germany to Phil. 1810
- Fourth of July in Center Square 1812, 1819
- Quilting Frolic, Country Tavern
- influenced John Neagle, Daniel Blythe
2. William S. Mount (1807-1865)
- "never paint for the few, but for the many"
- pictures of rural Long Island
- The Rustic Dance won American Institute of NY prize 1830
- Banjo Player - stereotype of happy black musician
- Cathing Crabs, Cider Making, Herald in the Country
3. George C. Bingham
- the Missouri artist - river scenes popular in East
- Fur Traders Descending the Missouri 1845
- Boatman series, Election series (drawn from life)
4. Currier & Ives - lithographers
- 1852 partnership - mass-produced 3 prints per week - 15 cents
- themes of progress, technology, heroes, Protestant ethic
- rural small town life, sex roles idealized
- The "Lightning Express" Trains: "Leaving the Junction" picture from Currier & Ives online exhibit from City Museum of New York
