America during the 1820’s

A view from art and literature

A Growing Sense of Nationhoodstandards

• Discuss daily life including traditions in art music and literature, of early national America.

John James Audubon

• Audubon was born in Haiti

• He came to America to escape serving in Napoleon’s army.

• He lived primarily in the Ohio River Valley

Charles Bird King

• King drew pictures and made paintings of Native Americans

• His paintings were loved in Europe where many people were interested in the West.

• You can see them now in the Smithsonian

TAH-RO-HON,AN IOWAY WARRIOR

JACK-O-PA THE SIX, CHIPPEWA CHIEF

RED JACKET, SENECA WAR CHIEF

What’s your impression?

• Describe the Seminole chief in the picture.

• What character traits can you draw from the picture?

• What questions come to mind from the picture?

• What do you think Bird thought of this chief and why?

James Otto Lewis

• Lewis was an engraver and a painter

• He was hired by the US government to make drawings of ceremonial events in the West such as treaties.

Kaa Nun Der Waaguinse ZooThe Berry Picker Famous Chippewa

Chief

Thomas ColeCole founded the Hudson River

School of PaintingHe was born in EnglandBut raised in the US.In 1825, he moved to the

Catskill Mts., a wilderness in upstate New York

Cole was captivated by nature.He took in painting students

and taught his love of landscape - The Hudson River School

Hudson River School of Painting

• Landscape or pictures of nature

• Nature is very big and strong dwarfing human figures

• This school of painting which lasted from 1825 - 1900 inspired music and literature and American pride.

Mountain Craggs

the Hunter Returns

The Falls at the Katskills

The Hudson River School and Thomas Cole

• Cole was very worried about industrialism and railroads expanding into the wilderness.

• How do his paintings reflect his love of nature and fear for the future?

• What is the scale of man to nature? Why, do you think, did he use this scale?

• What was Cole’s ideal America?

James Fennimore Cooper

• America’s first novelist

• Also, America’s first local historian

• Famous works include

The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans

From “A History of Cooperstown” (yes, the same as

the baseball hall of fame)• The site of the present village of

Cooperstown, is said to have been a favorite place of resort with the adjacent savage tribes, from a remote period. The tradition which has handed down this circumstance, is rendered probable by the known abundance of the fish and game in its vicinity. The word "Otsego," is thought to be a compound which conveys the idea of a spot at which meetings of the Indians were held.

Washington Irving

• Was born and raised in New York

• Worked for he government

• Loved to make fun of power and greed

• Had a great love of nature.

In your spirals

• From what you have read and seen about America in the 1820’s, what were the common threads that linked the country together? What evidence do you see of a unique American identity? What did you see or read that interested or surprised you?

• Think about the birth places of the artists.