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birdseye view of New York
birdseye view of New York
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
Autumn in New England
American Farm Scenes series
animals idealized in Horse Race, Winter Road
birdseye views of towns
Tree of Life or Death
Erie Railroad ad, western expansion
American heroes
Links:
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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