American Art Flashcards
early american neoclassicist & “the death of general wolfe”
benjamin west (1738-1820)
had sons named rembrandt, raphaelle, and titian
charles willson peale (1741-1827)
portraits of george washington
gilbert stuart (1755-1828)
peaceable kingdom
edward hicks (1780-1849)
bird illustrations
john james audubon (1785-1851)
code/telegraph inventor who was also a painter and photographer
samuel morse (1791-1872)
the hudson river school
thomas cole (1801-1848)
civil war photographer
mathew brady (1822-1896)
whistler’s mother/”arrangement in grey and black, no. 2”
james whistler (1834-1903)
seascapes
winslow homer (1836-1910)
political cartoons
thomas nast (1840-1902)
american impressionist
mary cassatt (1844-1926)
philadelphia painter & “the gross clinic”
thomas eakins (1844-1916)
lincoln memorial & “minute man” sculpture
daniel chester french (1850-1931)
portraits of the socially prominent
john singer sargent (1856-1925)
old lady painter
grandma moses (1860-1961)
wild west sculptures
frederic remington (1861-1909)
montana cowboy sculptor who isn’t frederic remington
charles marion russell (1864-1926)
the ashcan school
robert henri (1865-1929)
mt. rushmore & stone mountain
gutzon borglum (1867-1941)
gibson girl
charles dana gibson (1867-1944)
nighthawks
edward hopper (1882-1967)
andrew wyeth’s father
newell convers “n.c.” wyeth (1882-1945)
american southwest & flowers & cow skulls
georgia o’keeffe (1887-1986)
missouri-born muralist
thomas hart benton (1889-1975)
dada photographer
man ray (1890-1976)
american gothic & iowa
grant wood (1891-1942)
saturday evening post
norman rockwell (1894-1978)
depression photographer
dorothea lange (1895-1965)
mobiles
alexander calder (1898-1976)
nature photographer
ansel adams (1902-1984)
russian-born abstract painter of bands of color
mark rothko (1903-1970)
life magazine photojournalist
margaret bourke-white (1904-1971)
wife of jackson pollock
lee krasner (1908-1984)
abstract-expressionist drip painter
jackson pollock (1912-1956)
christina’s world & helga
andrew wyeth (1917-2009)
sports artist
leroy neiman (1921-)
freak photographer
diane arbus (1923-1971)
blown-up comic books
roy lichtenstein (1923-1997)
macabre illustrations
edward gorey (1925-2000)
non-traditional materials
robert rauschenberg (1925-2008)
pop art
andy warhol (1928-1987)
swedish-born pop sculptor of giant versions of common objects
claes oldenburg (1929-)
three flags
jasper johns (1930-)
the dinner party
judy chicago (1939-)
obscenity
robert mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
rolling stone celebrity photographer
annie leibovitz (1949-)
self-portrait photographer
cindy sherman (1954-)
nyc street art
keith haring (1958-1990)
painter of light
thomas kinkade (1958-)
haitian-american graffiti artist
jean-michel basquiat (1960-1988)
portrait of paul revere & “watson and the shark”
john singleton copley (1738-1815)