American Art

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American Art

• Early Works

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Sources

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• Eliot, Alexander. Three Hundred Years of
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Early American Painters

• Commercial picture, sign painters for stores,
  taverns
• Artisans, not artists
• Occasional portrait painters by commission
• Painted flat, stylized representations of
  subjects
• This technique called limning

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Margaret Gibbs  1670  Artist Unknown
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Mason Children David, Joanna, Abigailc. 1670 
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Elizabeth Clarke Freake and baby Mary Freakec.
1671-1674  Artist Unkown

• Early American Art

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Thomas Smith

• Self Portrait about 1680
• Identified as earliest New England
• Self Portrait
• Brought Baroque taste to America
• Use of light, shadow create
• believable illusions of form in
• space

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Portrait of a Man

• Painted 1675-1690
• by Thomas Smith
• Probable Portrait of
• Elisha Hutchinson

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John Trumball 1756-1843

• The Misses Mary and Hannah Murray
• (1806, oil)

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Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)

• George Washington
• First President of the
• United States

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Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)

• John Adams (1826, oil)
• Second President of the
• United States

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John Quidor (1801-1881)

• The Headless Horseman Pursuing
• Ichabod Crane (1858 oil)

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Robert Walter Wier(1803-1889)

• St. Nicholas (about 1887, oil)
• Delft tiles around fireplace
• Dutch values, growing diverse New York,
• Changing once Dutch settlement
• Knickerbockers
• Colonial Dutch Heritage