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Landscape in America (Week 11) Flashcards

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Asher Brown Durand

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1835 - encouraged by friendship with Cole begins landscape

1840 travels to Europe - Claude Lorain

President National Academy of Design 1845-1861

After Cole’s death 1848 becomes leading American Landscape Painter

1855-56 published “Letters on Landscape Painting” in The Crayon

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Asher B. Durand, The Evening of Life, 1840

By evening come around to Christianity

Progress

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Asher B. Durand, The Morning of Life, 1840

progress, christianity

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Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849

Memorial to Cole

W.C. Bryant Romantic Poet

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Asher B. Durand, In the Woods, 1855

speceficity in tree details

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Asher B. Durand, Beeches, 1849

cultivating the land

know its a beech tree

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Asher B. Durand, Interior of a Wood, 1850

change from landscape vista

more detailed

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Asher B. Durand, Progress, 1853

nature as narrative of progress

compare to Cole’s Oxbow

not as pessimistic

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Asher B. Durand, A Pastoral Scene, 1858

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Asher B. Durand, Kaaterskill Clove, 1866

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Jasper Cropsey

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Critical success following exhibition of a landscape 1845

elected to NAD 1851

known for autumnal visions of HRV, popular in England

2nd rank painter, most indebted to legacy of Cole

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Jasper Cropsey, The Spirit of War, 1851

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Jasper Cropsey, The Spirit of Peace, 1851

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Jasper Cropsey, Autumn on the Hudson River, 1860

In Europe in 1860

Didn’t really see this in person

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Jasper Cropsey, Greenwood Lake, 1870

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Sanford Gifford

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1823-1880 born to a wealthy family

1855 Europe - Ruskin, Turner

resided Tenth Street Studio Building

1870 Founding Member of the Metropolitan

1st artist to be honored by Met with monographic retrospetice and memorial catalogue of his known paintings

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Sanford Gifford, Catskill Mountain House, 1862

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Sanford Gifford, Hunter Mountain Twilight, 1866

Sadness caused by Civil War

desolate, barren landscape

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Sanford Gifford, Kaaterskill Clove, 1862

better sense of atmosphere

luminism

framing elements

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John Kensett

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noteriety following exhibition of 2 landscapes at NAD in late 1830s

1840-47 Europe

1849 full member NAD

1870 founding member of the Metropolitan

died from pneumonia contracted while trying to save friend’s wife in CT waters

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John Frederick Kensett, Bash-Bish Falls, 1855

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John Frederick Kensett, Lake George, 1856

Lake George scenes are most famous

better than Crospey

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Frederic Edwin Church

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First official pupil of Thomas Cole

Youngest painter elected to full membership NAD

Tenth Street Studio Building

reputation declined in 1870s

sublime and pastoral

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Frederic Church, Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness, 1846

paints as pupil of Cole, age 20

landscape as history scene

founding of Hartford, CT

homage to his lineage

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Frederic Church, Blasted Tree (Storm in the Mountains), 1849

Out Cole’ed Cole

God’s power

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Frederic Church, Niagara, 1857

no framing elements

studied how water falls

reverence to nature

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Frederic Church, Heart of the Andes, 1859

traveled to South America 1853 & 1857

God, art, nature

moralizing pilgrims spreading Christianity

details

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Frederic Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860

Eve of Civil War

impending storm

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Thomas Cole

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Born in England

comes to the US in 1818

1825 - Dunlap, Trumbull, and Durand purchase his work

pre-eminent figure of the American landscape tradition

father of the Hudson River School

1826 - founding member of NAD

landscape for moral message, manifest destiny, nature and God

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Thomas Cole

Course of the Empire: The Savage State

1834

allegorical study

progression of civilization

man’s relationship with nature

influenced by classical ruins in Europe

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Thomas Cole

Course of the Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State

1834

harmony with the land, balance

classical

cultivation of the land for survival

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Thomas Cole

Course of the Empire: The Consummation of the Empire

1836

man crowding out nature

figures foreshadowing destruction

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Thomas Cole

Course of the Empire: Destruction

1836

excess = downfall of civilization

further from nature = corruption

choas, sublime

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Thomas Cole

Course of the Empire: Desolation

1836

nature always returns

landscape used to teach moralizing message

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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836

wild vs. pastoral

self-portrait between lands

cultivate land

sublime, progress

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Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life Childhood, 1842

narrative series on age

baby accompanied by angelic spirit

God is close

calm waters

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Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth, 1842

boy pushing away from angel

drifting to unknown

clouds

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Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood, 1842

dramatic and dark

angel far away

challenging journey

unstable

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Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Old Age, 1842

angel re-joins man as she did in childhood

hourglass disappeared = time run out

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Albert Bierstadt

Rocky Mountain, Lander’s Peak

1863

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Albert Bierstadt

Last of the Buffalo

1888

Fine Art 1650 - 1850 (10 decks)

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