19th century art in the US

1. 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN
ART

2.  American art was derived from European art
 There was no catholic church to pay for art or music.
 There was no aristocracy, or rich people to spend money
in art
 photography (invented 1839) eventually replaced
painting as a chronicler of events and experience.

3.  Portraiture continued to be financially rewarding, but
landscapes of the American wilderness were also popular.
Thomas Cole
One of the best landscape
artists in America during
the first half of the 19th

4.  Rural America: the sea, the mountains, the people
 Landscapes in realistic way. Realism was the dominant
style
Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Homer had a unique talent for
portraying nature his pictures deal
with the obscure lives of fishermen,
soldiers, sailors, woodsmen, hunters,
pioneers - the common folk of the
human race.

5. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Quite simply the greatest
ever American exponent of
figurative realism; received
far less official recognition
during his lifetime, than he
deserved.

6. Mary Cassatt (1845-1926)
One of America's leading Impressionist painters, Mary Cassatt
spent most of her life living in Europe, and trained in Paris.

7. LANDSCAPES
George Inness (1825-1894)

8. Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)

9. Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)