CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PAINTING IN THE USA
.1 The Colonial period
.2 The First American Revolution and the young republic
.3 The Era of Jacksonian Democracy
. THE MAIN GENRES OF PAINTING AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES
.1 Portraiture
.2 Landscape painting
.3 Still life
.4 History painting
.5 Marine painting
.6 Scenes from Everyday life
. THE MOST FAMOUS ART MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IN THE USA
.1 American Museum of Natural History
.2 Museum of Modern Art
.3 National Gallery of Art
.4 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
. ART COLLECTIONS IN THE USA
.1 Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation
.2 Metropolitan Museum of Art
.3 Albert C. Barnes s Art Collection
.4 Getty Center
.5 The Philips Collection
INTRODUCTION
art encompasses the history of painting and visual art in the United States. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style. A parallel development taking shape in rural America was the American craft movement, which began as a reaction to the industrial revolution. Developments in modern art in Europe came to America from exhibitions in New York City such as the Armory Show in 1913. Previously American Artists had based the majority of their work on Western Painting and European Arts. After World War II, New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world. Since then many American Movements have shaped Modern and Post Modern art. Art in the United States today covers a huge range of styles.the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which marked the official beginning of the American national identity, the new nation needed a history, and part of that history would be expressed visually. Most of early American art (from the late 18th century through the early 19th century) consists of history painting and portraits. Painters such as Gilbert Stuart made portraits of the newly elected government officials, while John Singleton Copley was painting emblematic portraits for the increasingly prosperous merchant class, and painters such as John Trumbull were making large battle scenes of the Revolutionary War. «S first well-known school of painting-the Hudson River School-appeared in 1820. The Hudson River painters » directness and simplicity of vision influenced such later artists as Winslow Homer (1836-1910), who depicted rural America-the sea, the mountains, and the people who lived near them. Middle-class city life found its painter in Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), an uncompromising realist whose unflinching honesty undercut the genteel preference for romantic sentimentalism. Henry Ossawa Tanner who studied with Thomas Eakins was one of the first important African American painters.painters who are considered American spent some time in Europe and met other Eur...
