Hudson River School Art Summative Assignment Based on the artifacts which you went through, write an essay summarize what the Hudson River School and the Transcendental Movement were about, explaining there details. Reflect also on the relationship of music (Foster), architecture, and the other art (sculptures and paintings) of the period to the Hudson River School and Transcendental Movement. Lastly, relate how all of the various artifacts you examined reflected nationalism in the American culture of the day.
Adapted from Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL ART ACTIVITY
The Hudson River School: 1820s-1870
Kindred Spirits – Asher Durand, 1849
Frederic Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860
Albert Bierstadt Oil on Canvas Completed in 1867
Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872
The Classical Styles of Greece & Rome
Jefferson Rotunda, University of Virginia,
The Capital Rotunda
The Capitol Rotunda
Patriotic Art
Washington Crossing the Delaware Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1851
George Washington Horatio Greenough, 1841 The “New Cincinnatus”?
American Progress. by John Gast. Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZC4-668.
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Oh, Susannah - Stephen Foster Well I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee And I'm bound for Louisiana, my own true love for to see It did rain all night the day I left The weather was bone dry The sun was so hot I froze myself Suzanne, don't you go on and cry I said, Oh, Suzannah Now, don't you cry for me As I come from Alabama with this banjo on my knee Well I had myself a dream the other night When everything was still I dreamed that I saw my girl Suzanne She was coming around the hill Now, the buckwheat cake was in her mouth A tear was in her eye I said, that I come from Dixie land Suzanne, don't you break down and cry I said, Oh, Suzannah Now, don't you cry for me 'Cause I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee