Quiz:

1. What narrative was built up by Hiram Powers so that his Greek Slave would be more palatable t
American audiences?
2. What are two visual details that demonstrate steps that Hiram Powers took to deflect anticipate
criticism?
3. What was ironic about the New York Evening Express headline “THE GREEK SLAVE TO BE SOLD”?
4. What doctrine is manifest in Emmanuel Leutze’s Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way
(Westward Ho!) (1861)?

1. What are the two aesthetic categories of landscape that were theorized by Edmund Burke
and William Gilpin?
2. What landscape painting “school” is most closely associated with Thomas Cole?
3. Early in the 19th century, what was one of the first popular natural wonders that drew
tourists and landscape painters?
4. What is the name of the political party that underwent the greatest transformation with
the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency in 1800?
5. Which political party did Thomas Cole feel himself most closely aligned?
6. What was Cole’s theory of history?
7. Although Thomas Cole’s attitude towards industrialization remained steady,
why did the attitude of the old elite begin to shift after 1825?
8. According to Allan Wallach, what was Luman Reed’s primary satisfaction
from being a patron for Cole’s Course of Empire?
9. Provide the titles of two paintings from Cole’s Course of Empire series:
10. The still life was the expertise of which member of the Peale family?
Genre Painting --considered “Everyday life” representations
Northern European precedents….

The Lacemaker, 1656–57

Nicolaes Maes (Dutch)

The Smokers, probably ca. 1636

Adriaen Brouwer (Flemish)

The Peddler (1814)

Sir David Wilkie (British)
William Sidney Mount, Bargaining for a horse(1835)
William Sidney Mount, The Painter’s Triumph (1838)
William Sidney Mount, Farmer’s Nooning (1836)
William Sidney Mount

Rustic Dance After a Sleigh Ride (1830)
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/rustic-dance-after-a-sleigh-ride-33204
The Power of Music (1847)
Listen to a song written by the artist
http://www.folkways.si.edu/gilbert-ross/the-cradle-of-harmony-william-
sidney-mounts-violin-and-fiddle-music/classical-historical-
song/album/smithsonian
About the violin he invented: http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=69
Eastman Johnson, The New Bonnet (1876)
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/25.110.11
Eastman Johnson, Not At Home (1873)
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/496
/Not_at_Home#
 George Caleb Bingham

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845)

The Jolly Flatboatmen (1846)
George Caleb Bingham, George Caleb Bingham, Daniel
The County Election (1851-2) Boone Escorting Settlers Through
the Cumberland Gap(1851-2)
Lilly Martin Spencer, Shake Hands? (1854) Lilly Martin Spencer,
Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the ‘Lasses (1856)
 Lily Martin Spencer,
Lily Martin Spencer, Peeling Onions (c 1852)
Young Husband, First Marketing (1854)
 Charles Willson Peale, The Peale Family (1772-73
and reworked 1808-1809)
Lily Martin Spencer, Fi, Fo,
Fum! (1858)
Richard Caton Woodville, War News from Mexico (1848)
 Richard Caton Woodville, War News from
Lilly Martin Spencer, War Spirit at Home
Mexico (1848)
(Celebrating the Victory at Vicksburg) (1866)
Richard Caton Woodville, 1825-1855 Richard Caton Woodville, War News from
Old '76 and Young '48 (1849) Mexico (1848)
Richard Caton Woodville, 1825-1855
Old '76 and Young '48 (1849)
Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868
Storming of the Teocali by Cortez and His Troops (1848)
George Caleb Bingham, The County Election (1851-2)
George Caleb Bingham, Verdict of the People (1854-5)
George Caleb Bingham, Stump Speaking (1853-4)