An Overview of American Art

USHAP

Hudson River School• Mid-19th century landscape painters influenced by Romanticism• National identity• Documented life of Native Americans• Realism of American wilderness

Thomas Cole

Asher DurandOut of Many pg374

Frederic Remington Rocky Mountain School, OM page 631

Albert Bierstadt

Progressive Era (1900-1917)

• Jacob Riis (1849-1914): Journalist who helped expose poverty in NYC. One of the first modern photographers.

• Muckrakers• Out Of Many pg735

(American Realism)

• Jacob Riis, How the other Half Lives. 1910. New York.

The Harlem Renaissance(c. 1919-1930s)

•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 (1887-1986)• 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

(1933-1939)

• 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, Futurismin 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 Art1950s-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 WarholTom 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)