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American Romanticism
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Washington Crossing the Delaware
By Emanuel Leutze -
General George Washington Surrendering
By John Trumball -
The Landscape of a valley in the White Mountains
By Thomas Cole, The Landscape of a Valley in the White Mountains of New Hampshire -
The Garden of Eden
By Thomas Cole, The Garden of Eden -
Course of An Empire: The Savage State
By Thomas Cole, Course of an Empire: The Savage State -
Course of An Empire: The Consummation of an Empire
By Thomas Cole, Course of An Empire: The Consummation of an Empire -
The Course of an Empire: Desolation
By Thomas Cole, The Course of an Empire: Desolation -
The Oxbow
By Thomas Cole -
The Departure
By Thomas Cole, The Departure -
Slave Ship
by J.M.W. " Turner was an advocate for the end of the slave trade. Turner wrote a short poem which accompanies the painting: “Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay; Yon angry setting sun and fierce-edged cloudsDeclare the Typhoon's coming.Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboard The dead and dying - ne'er heed their chains Hope, Hope, fallacious Hope! Where is thy market now?" -
Bandbox
By Alexander Wislon Drake, renowned storyteller, writer, wood engraver, and artist. He also was influential in raising the money for the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. -
A Pic Nick in the Woods
A Pic Nick in the Woods of New England by Jerome B. Thompson. -
"Jeanie with the light brown hair"
By Stephen C. Foster, sheet music the first of American Composers. -
Westward the course of the Empire Takes Its Way
Mural for the US Capitol by Emanuel Leutze -
The Young Abe Lincoln
By George Peter Alexander Healy -
Study in Human Motion
By Thomas Eakins, he is credited with having introduced the camera to the American Studio. -
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, by John Quincy Adams, located in Central Park New York City. -
The Gross Clinic
The Gross Clinic, 1875, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. According to one reviewer in 1876: This portrait of Dr. Gross is a great work—we know of nothing greater that has ever been executed in America. By Thomas Eakins -
Spirit of '76
Sprit of '76 painting by A.M. Willard -
Dreaming Lolanthe
By Caroline Shawk Brooks, a butter sculpture, in the 1876 Centennial Exhibition -
George Washington
George Washington, by John Quincy Adams Ward, over-life size statue on the steps of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City. -
Two Children in a Swing
By Jerome B. Thompson -
Catskill Cascades
By Jerome B. Thompson -
Storm in the Rocky Mountains
By Albert Bierstadt -
David the Shephard
By Elizabeth Jane Gardner, David the Shephard is her most well-known painting. In 1866 she was the first American woman to exhibit at the Paris Salon.
