JEAN KEMPF  ART AMERICAIN STAGE DNL 2010 





Discovery and exploration

"L'horrible précipice", 1704 (first European depiction of Niagara Falls)

John Vanderlyn, Niagara Falls from Table Rock, ca 1801-1802

Alvan Fisher, Niagara Falls, 1820

Thomas Cole, Distant View of Niagara Falls, 1830

Thomas Cole, Niagara Falls, c.1830

Frederick Edwin Church, Niagara, 1857

William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) Niagara Falls, 1878

Victor Valentin Sebron (1801-1879) Chutes du Niagara en hiver, 1857

Instances of the influence of European Romantic iconography on the representation of the Western landscape

Alfred Bierstadt (1830-1902), Western Landscape, 1868 (an image made from sketches taken in Europe)

Thomas Moran (1837-1926), Shoshone Falls on the Snake River, 1900

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), The Falls of the Kaaterskill, 1826

Romantic visions

Asher B. Durand (1796–1886), Kindred Spirits, 1849

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), The View from Mount Holyoke or The Oxbow, 1836


Discovery and exploration, Indians

Seth Eastman, Lacrosse Playing Among the Sioux Indians, 1851

Karl Bodmer, Mahchsi Karehde, Mandan Indian, 1833-34

George Catlin (1796-1872) White Cloud, Chief of the Tribe [Iowa], 1844

George Catlin (1796-1872) Buffalo Bull, A Great Warrior, 1832

George Catlin (1796-1872) The Cutting Scene (Initiation of young braves), 1832

Karl Bodmer, Fort Mackenzie [sic], August 28, 1833, 1840

Perspective

A.J. Russell, Malloy's Cut, Near Sherman, Wyoming, 1867-68

A.J. Russell, Temporary and Permanent Bridges and Citadel Rock, Green River, 1868

William Henry Jackson, Green River Butte, ca 1870

William Henry Jackson, The Bluffs of the Green River, ca 1885

Thomas Moran, Cliffs of the Green River, Wyoming, 1882


Tourism

William Hahn, Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point, 1874

Oscar Berninghaus, A Showery Day, Grand canyon, 1915

Discovery and exploration, Wild Life : John James Audubon

John James Audubon (1785-1851) Long-Billed Curlew (City of Charleston), 1834

John James Audubon (1785-1851) Gyrfalcon, 1835-36

John James Audubon (1785-1851) Swan, 1835-36

John James Audubon (1785-1851) Cat Squirrel, 1841