Famous American Paintings – 15 United States Masterpieces
网页2021年10月8日 · To gain a better understanding of the country as viewed by the greatest American painters of their time, let us explore the best American paintings that have been produced through the centuries. Paul Revere (1770) by John Singleton Copley
Ten Great American Revolution Paintings, 1790-1860
网页Paintings of scenes from the American Revolution completed between 1790 and 1860 played a critical role in shaping popular understanding of the Revolution. The most important of these paintings, like Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, continue to shape the way Americans think about the Revolution.
19th Century - Smithsonian American Art Museum
网页In the decades before World War I—a period dubbed the “Gilded Age” by author Mark Twain—artists such as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Abbott Thayer captured the brilliance and wealth of turn-of-the-century society, bringing a new level of sophistication to American art.
American Paintings - National Gallery of Art
网页Two Corcoran Collection paintings sharing this connection to the Civil War hang nearby: George Peter Alexander Healy's portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1860), the first portrait for which the President posed following his election, and William MacLeod’s Maryland Heights: Siege of Harpers Ferry.
19th-century American art in 5 themes - Christie's
网页2023年12月8日 · As American painting developed through the 19th-century many artists, including Winslow Homer and Eastman Johnson — a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which opened in 1872 — moved away from academic painting to find beauty in everyday life and shape a distinctly American field of genre painting.
19th Century American Art | Artsy
网页19th Century American Art. A general category for artworks made in the United States between 1800 and 1900. While until 1820 American art was largely derivative of European styles, Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School would develop a distinctive style of painting that highlighted the American landscape, a subject that was later explored and ...
American Scenes of Everyday Life, 1840–1910 - The …
网页By the mid-1870s, the taste of American viewers and patrons changed in response to their expanded opportunities for travel; ready access to prints, photographs, illustrations in magazines and journals, and other reproductions; and …
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
网页Thomas Cole inspired the generation of American landscape painters that came to be known as the Hudson River School. Born in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England, in 1801, at the age of seventeen he emigrated with his family to the United States, first working as a wood engraver in Philadelphia before going to Steubenville, Ohio, where his ...
American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century Part I
网页This is the first of two volumes of the systematic catalogue describing the 19th-century American paintings in the National Gallery of Art. It documents works by some of America’s most famous artists, including Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Jasper F. Cropsey, John F. Kensett, George Inness, and Childe Hassam.
Paintings - National Gallery of Art
网页We have one of the finest collections of American paintings in the United States, with works in all genres from the 18th to the 20th century. We also have works by Italian High Renaissance, early Netherlandish and German, Dutch, …