AMERICA IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY

AMERICA IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY

A time of great change and growth New Products ( typewriter, sewing machine, and electric lamp) 1855 The first university founded in Michigan 1900 United States had become world leader

Winslow Homer
An american landscape painter and printmaker Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator One of the most skill full and powerful painters of the sea

Prisoners at the Front (1866) by Homer

The Fog Warning (1885) by Winslow Homer

Right and Left (1909) by Winslow Homer

Driftwood by Winslow Homer

Thomas Eakins
One of America's greatest, most uncompromising realist Dedicated his career to depicting the human figure In January 1886, lecturing about the pelvis to a class that included female students, Eakins removed a loincloth from a male model so that he could trace the course of a muscle. Angry protests by parents and students forced him to resign at the request of the Academy board.

The Gross Clinic (1875) by Eakins

The Gross Clinic (1875) by Eakins

The Gross Clinic (1875) by Eakins

Albert Pinkham Ryder

His color was described to be rich, but he drew feebly People looked at him as the native prophet who linked tradition to modernism

Jonah (1885) by Ryder

Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens by Ryder

Flying Dutchman (1887) by Ryder

The Contributions of Afro-American Artists

Joshua Johnston of Baltimore Edward Bannister from Providence, Rhode Island Under the Oaks

Sketch of Bannister's unlocated painting Under the Oaks

Henry Tanner
One of the first AfricanAmerican artists to achieve a reputation in both America and Europe Worked in the Naturalist and genre traditions of American art

The Banjo lesson (1893) by Tanner

Daniel in the Lions Den by Tanner