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American Art Union
Mount's Painter's Triumph
Art
Hudson River School of Thomas Cole (1801-48) in Catskills 1825
"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
Kindred Spirits
painted by Asher Durand of Cole, Cullen Bryant outdoors
Durand was president of National Academy of Design 1850-61
American Art Union in New York after 1838, awarded prizes, published monthly catalog, 18,000 subscribers paid $5 annual dues
artist-exploreres Frederick Church, Albert Bierstadt
Genre artists - ordinary activity of ordinary people
"the idea is the essence of art" - realistic style, but idealized subjects, to uplift, reform, educate, inspire
William S. Mount painted rural Long Island
"never paint for the few, but for the many"
The Rustic Dance won American Institute of NY prize 1830
Catching Crabs, Cider Making, Herald in the Country
George C. Bingham, the Missouri artist - river scenes popular in East
Currier & Ives
1852 partnership - mass-produced 3 lithographic prints per week priced from $4 to 15 cents
new steel plates replaced less durable copper lithographs
themes of progress, technology, heroes, Protestant ethic
rural small town life, sex roles idealized
Links:
Godey's Ladies Book
from Hope Greenberg, with
sheet music
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
from University of Virginia
James Fenimore Cooper
picture
from the
Cooper page
at U of Texas
Nathaniel Hawthorne
picture
from
Peabody Essex Museum
picture
from the 1995 film from
Hollywood Pictures
Herman Melville
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
picture
from the
Longfellow page at Auburn
Edgar Allen Poe
Walt Whitman
picture
from the
Library of Congress
William McGuffey
page from Univ. of Virginia
4 Hudson River School ../../USPics18 from the Munson Williams Proctor Institute on the
Cole page
of the
Living Schoolbook Project
at Syracuse
Landscape
, 1866 , from the
Durand page
of the
Museum of Art
at Brigham Young University
View of the Hudson River Valley from Olana
, 1867 , from the
Frederic Church page
of the
Museum of Art
at Brigham Young University
Near Salt Lake City Utah
, 1881c , from the
Bierstadt page
of the
Museum of Art
at Brigham Young University
View additional examples of the Hudson River School at the
Desmond-Fish Library online exhibit
of 1000 works of art
The "Lightning Express" Trains: "Leaving the Junction
"
picture
from
Currier & Ives online exhibit
from City Museum of New York
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