An Overview of American Art USHAP
Hudson River School Mid-19 th century landscape painters influenced by Romanticism National identity Documented life of Native Americans Realism of American wilderness Thomas Cole Asher Durand Out of Many pg374
Frederic Remington Rocky Mountain School, OM page 631 Albert Bierstadt
Progressive Era ( ) Jacob Riis ( ): Journalist who helped expose poverty in NYC. One of the first modern photographers. Muckrakers Out Of Many pg735 (American Realism) Edward Willis Redfield (1909) Jacob Riis, How the other Half Lives New York.
The Harlem Renaissance (c s) African American neighborhood of NYC Emergence of African American culture in mainstream America WWI Great Migration Archibald Motley (1929)
Aaron Douglas (1936) Beauford Delaney (1946)
The Southwest Georgia O’Keefe ( ) Modern American art starts to influence European art Abstraction and representation Inspired by the Southwest
New Deal Art FDR’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) allocated $300 million artists, writers and teachers. Murals in public spaces Documentary impulse Depicts social, racial, economic injustice ( )
Fletcher Martin, Mine Rescue, 1939
Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930)Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (1936)
Abstract Expressionism Worldwide Influence Rebellious, nihilistic, anarchic Influenced by Cubism, Futurism in Europe (Picasso) Post WWII Jackson Pollack, No. 5 (1948)
Hans Hofmann, The Gate (1959) Barnett Newman, Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? (1966) Jane Frank (1960) Arshile Gorky (1944) Clyfford Still (1957)
Pop Art 1950s-1960s Hybrid between painting and sculpture, incorporates other objects into paintings Advertising and comic book styles as well as abstract. Andy Warhol (1968)
Robert Rauschenberg Roy Lichtenstein Andy Warhol Tom Wesselman
Realism Occurring at the same time as other art movements Appeal of everyday America Edward Hopper 1920s-present
Norman Rockwell
Extra slides
Robert Henri (1902) Jacob Riis (1888) John Sloan (1912) William Glackens (1898)