Art Resource
Pieces Outline
1. Selected Artwork:
John Singleton Copley, Watson
and the Shark, 1778 (NGA)
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
2. Selected Artwork:
George Caleb Bingham, Mississippi
Boatman, 1850 (NGA)
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
3. Selected Artwork:
George Inness, The
Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856 (NGA)
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
4. Selected Artwork:
Winslow Homer, A Visit from the
Old Mistress, 1876 (SAAM)
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
5. Selected Artwork: Mary Cassatt, The Boating Party, 1893/94 (NGA)
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
6. Selected Artwork:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Shaw Memorial,
1897/1900
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
7. Selected Artwork: Henry Bacon
(architect) and Daniel Chester French (sculptor), Abraham
Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, 1914–1922
a) Artists' biographies
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
8. Selected
Artwork: Gutzon Borglum, Augustus Lukeman, Walker Hancock, and Ray
Faulkner, Stone
Mountain Memorial to the Confederacy, 1916–
a) Artists' biographies
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
9.
Selected Artwork: Unidentified
artist, Frederick Douglass, 1856 (NPG)†
a) Biography of the sitter (photographer unknown)
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
10. Selected Artwork: Studio of Mathew Brady, The Sick Soldier,
c. 1863 (SAAM)
a) Biography of Mathew Brady and overview of his studio
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
11. Selected Artwork: Timothy H.
O'Sullivan, Cañon de
Chelle, Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 Feet in Height (Wheeler Survey),
1873 (SAAM)
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
12. Selected Artwork: Joshua Johnson, The Westwood Children,
c. 1807 (NGA)
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
13. Selected
Artwork: David Drake, Alkaline
Glazed Stoneware Jar, 1862 (NMAH
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
14. Selected Artwork:
Harriet Powers, Bible Quilt,
c. 1886 (NMAH)
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
15. Selected Artwork:
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The
Seine, c. 1902 (NGA)
a) Artist biography
b) Visual analysis
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
16. Selected Artwork: Oak
Alley Plantation,
a) Patron biography
b) Architect (believed to be Gilbert Joseph Pilié) biography
c) Visual analysis
d) Materials and techniques
e) Historical context
f) Significance
17. Selected Artwork: Alexander Jackson Davis (architect), Lyndhurst for George Merritt, Tarrytown, New York (west [rear] elevation and plan), 1865 (MMA)
a) Patron biography
b) Architect biography
c) Materials and techniques
d) Historical context
e) Significance
18. Selected Artwork: Shotgun
House,
a) Visual analysis
b) Materials and techniques
c) Historical context
d) Significance
