1. Creating a national culture

2. Boy With Squirrel
John Singleton Copley
1765

3. Paul Revere
John Singleton Copley
1768

4. Copley Family Portrait
John Singleton Copley
1776

5. That was “colonial American art”
Now, let’s look at the Hudson River School . . .

6. NEW YORK VERMONT NEW HAMPSHIRE MASSACHUSETTS CONNECTICUT PENNSYLVANIA
RHODE
ISLAND
PENNSYLVANIA
NEW
JERSEY

8. The Oxbow, Thomas Cole, 1836

9. Catskill Scenery
Thomas Cole
1832

10. The Falls of Kaaterskill
Thomas Cole
1833

11. The Course of Empire
Thomas Cole

12. The Savage State

13. The Arcadian or Pastoral State

14. The Consummation of Empire

15. The Destruction of Empire

16. Desolation

17. The Oxbow, Thomas Cole, 1836

18. The Oxbow, Thomas Cole, 1836
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