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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age makes one think of Images of gold and jewels, lavish palaces, and wealth beyond imagination. According to "What Is Gilded Age Architecture?" (2016), "American business leaders amassed huge fortunes, becoming a suddenly-rich baron class with a fondness for ostentatious displays of their new-found wealth (The Gilded Age in American Art). What is Gilded Age Architecture?. (2016). Retrieved from http://architecture.about.com/cs/housetours/a/gildedage.htm -
Architecture: The Dakota
The first luxury apartment building in New York City during the first Gilded Age was the Dakota. It embodied the gilded age with it's style which included an inner courtyard that could not be seen from the street. They used choice hardwood, wainscoted in rare metals, bronze staircases, and metal work ("The Dakota - Nyc'S First Luxury Apartment House", 2016). The Dakota - NYC's First Luxury Apartment House. (2016). Retrieved from http://architecture.about.com/od/houses/ss/The-Dakota.htm#step1 -
Winslow Homer (Cloud Shadows)
According to "Spencer Museum Of Art" (n.d.), "Cloud Shadows was painted during Homer's later period when his subjects were predominantly heroic seascapes, emphasizing the struggles between man and nature. These subjects celebrated old-fashioned rural values in a nation undergoing rapid change and urbanization (The Gilded Age in American Art)." Spencer Museum of Art. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/education/k12/gilded-age/homer.shtml -
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Early American Modernism
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Guaranty Trust Building
Louis Sullivan’s Guaranty Building
Construction Completed: 1896
Designated a National Historic Landmark: 1975
The Architect
Louis H. Sullivan was probably the most important American architect of the 19th century and is still considered the “Father of the Skyscraper.” http://www.hodgsonruss.com/Louis-Sullivans-Guaranty-Building.html -
Bailey's Beach Newport, R.I.
Childe Hassam
American, 1859-1935 http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/107862?search_no=4&index=20 Bailey's Beach, Newport, R.I., 1901 Oil on canvas
61 x 66 cm (24 x 26 in.)
Signed lower left: Childe Hassam 1901 On back: c.1901 Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection, 1936.243 -
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Ashcan Artists (Populist, expansive, and committed to documentary realism )
In the early part of the twentieth century, a maverick group of painters in New York City set the foundation for depicting the sheer variety and scale of life in the changing, surging metropolis. Their name, like that of the Impressionists, was initially a term of derision branded by the prevailing critics, though it ultimately became their banner of pride. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/art-between-wars/american-art-wwii/a/the-ashcan-school-an-introduction -
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Cubism
"This comprehensive and fresh critical re-examination of Cubism in its wider context, social, cultural, political, scientific and philosophical, introduces and re-frames the movement, covering the full range of art and artists from the movement’s advent in 1908 through the First World War." http://www.thamesandhudson.com/Cubism_and_Culture/9780500203422 -
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Analytical Cubism
Analytic Cubism was developed only by Picasso and Braque during the winter of 1909-10. It lasted until the middle of 1912, when collage introduced simplified versions of the "analytic" forms. http://arthistory.about.com/od/glossary_a/a/a_analytic_cubism.htm -
Picasso: Girl with Mandolin
In 1910 Picasso and Fernande Olivier spent a summer vacation in Cadaques, and this was where Woman with Mandolin originated. Having emerged from an Early Cubist phase which seemed, in part, expressive, Picasso was now in the throes of Analytical Cubism, a period during which he invested surface ornament with intrinsic value. In this picture, the characteristic fragmentation of form is carried to almost unre-cognizable lengths. http://www.pablopicasso.org/girl-with-mandolin.jsp -
Robie House
Frank Lloyd Wright’s world-famous Robie House, designed for businessman Frederick C. Robie between 1908 and 1910, has been a National Historic Landmark since 1963. The structure is often cited as the best example of the Prairie style. http://architecture.uchicago.edu/locations/robie_house/ -
Dweller on the Threshold
Arthur Bowen Davies
American, 1862-1928
Dweller On the Threshold, ca. 1915
Oil on canvas
17 x 21 3/4 in.
Bequest of Virginia Keep Clark, 1962.17 http://www.rollins.edu/cornell-fine-arts-museum/collection/american-art/early-american-modernism.html
