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19th Century American Art
Painting, sculpture, prints and photography made in the United States across the 1800s, from the early republic to the Gilded Age.
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American art of the 1800s followed a young country's growth and its argument about how it should picture itself. Early in the century portraiture dominated, while naturalists and travellers recorded the continent: John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–38) catalogued its wildlife, and George Catlin went west in the 1830s to paint the peoples of the Plains.
Landscape soon became the national subject. Thomas Cole's The Oxbow (1836) set wilderness against cultivated land, and Frederic Edwin Church's Niagara (1857) turned scenery into public spectacle. After the Civil War, which photographers documented on an unprecedented scale, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins developed a sober realism of work, sport and study, as in Eakins's The Gross Clinic (1875). Late in the century many artists trained in Paris. Mary Cassatt exhibited with the Impressionists there, while at home Frederic Remington's paintings and bronzes fixed an image of the cowboy West.
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