List
of American Art for Web Project 2: American History through Art
American Democracy
1. George Caleb Bingham, Canvassing for a Vote (1852)
2. George Caleb Bingham, Stump Speaking (1854)
3. George Caleb Bingham, County Election (1851)
4. George Caleb Bingham, Country Politician (1849)
5. John Lewis Krimmel, Election Scene, State House in Philadelphia (1815)
American Genre Paintings
6. William Sydney Mount, Cider Making (1841)
7. William Sydney Mount, Dance of the Haymakers (1845)
8. William Sydney Mount, Farmers Nooning (1836)
9. George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845)
10. George Caleb Bingham, Raftsmen Playing Cards (1847)
11. George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flat Boatmen in Port (1857)
12. Richard Caton Woodville, War News from Mexico (1848)
13. Winslow Homer, Croquet Scene (1862)
Captivity Paintings
14. John Vanderlyn, The Death of Jane McCrea (1804)
15. Currier and Ives, The Death of Jane McCrea (1846)
16. John Mix Stanley, Osage Scalp Dance (1845)
17. Charles Deas, The Death Struggle (1845)
18. Carl Wimar, The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter (1853)
George Washington and the Revolutionary War
19. John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence (1816)
20. John Trumbull, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, 17 June, 1775 (after 1815–before 1831)
21. John Trumbull, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown (1820)
22. John Trumbull, George Washington before the Battle of Trenton (1792)
23. Charles Wilson Peale, George Washington at the Battle of Princeton (1779)
24. Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait) (1796)
25. Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851)
26. John Barralet, The Apotheosis of Washington (1802)
27. Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington (1785- 1791) (sculpture)
Landscape
28. Thomas Cole, The Hunter's Return (1845)
29. Thomas Cole, View on the Catskill, Early Autumn (1837)
30. Thomas Cole, Last of the Mohicans: Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund (1827)
31. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Savage State (1834)
32. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Pastoral State - Arcadia (1834)
33. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire (1834)
34. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Destruction (1834)
35. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Desolation (1834)
36. Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood (1842)
37. Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth (1842)
38. Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood (1842)
39. Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Old Age (1842)
40. George Martin Brown, View of Central Park (1862)
41. George Martin Brown, Leatherstocking Kills the Panther (1862)
42. Martin Johnson Heade, Thunderstorm Over Naragansett Bay (1868)
43. John Frederick Kensett, Mountain Landscape (mid 1850s)
44. John Frederick Kensett, The Langdale Pike (1858)
45. Fitz Hugh Lane, Boston Harbor (1856)
46. Asher Durand, Kindred Spirits (1849)
47. Asher Durand, The Symbol (1856)
48. Asher Durand, Early Morning at Cold Spring (1850)
49. Robert S. Duncanson, Blue Hole, Little Miami River (1851)
Native Americans
50. Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe (1770)
51. Benjamin West, Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771)
52. Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (1834 ) (You may find several versions of this. Be sure to have the plate with Penn and the Indians in the background)
53. Tompkins Matteson, Last of the Race (1847)
54. John Mix Stanley, Last of Their Race (1857)
55. George Catlin, Pigeon's Egg Head (The Light) Going to and Returning From Washington (1839)
56. George Catlin, An Iowa Medicine Man (1845)
57. George Catlin, Prairie Meadows Burning (1832)
58. George Catlin, Comanche Feats of Horsemanship (1834-35)
59. George Catlin, Buffalo Hunt under the Wolf Skin Mask (1832-33)
60. Thomas Crawford, Dying Indian Chief Contemplating the Progress of Civilization (1856) (sculpture)
61. Alfred Jacob Miller, The Trapper's Bride (1845)
Slavery and African Americans
62. John Lewis Krimmel, Quilting Frolic (1813)
63. William Sidney Mount, The Banjo Player (1830)
64. William Sidney Mount, The Bone Player (1856)
65. William Sidney Mount, The Power of Music (1847)
66. Eastman Johnson, Negro Life at the South (or Old Kentucky Home) (1859)
67. Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty--the Fugitive Slaves (1862)
Pioneers and Manifest Destiny
68. Emanuel Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (Westward Ho!) (1861)
69. John Gast, American Progress (1872)
70. Albert Bierstadt, Emigrants Crossing the Plains (1867)
71. George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley (1855)
72. Thomas Nast, Frontispiece & Title Page of Beyond the Mississippi by Albert Richardson (1869)
Westward Expansion
73. Thomas Cole, Daniel Boone Sitting at the Door of his Cabin (1826)
74. George Caleb Bingham, The Emigration of Daniel Boone (1852)
75. Frederic Church, Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636 (1846)
76. William Jewett, The Promised Land--the Grayson Family 1850 (1850)
Portraits
77. Samuel F. B. Morse, Susan Walker Morse (The Muse) (1836-1837)
78. John Smibert, Mrs. Francis Brinley and her son Francis (1729)
79. Ammi Phillips, Mrs. Mayer and Daughter (1835-1840)
80. Ralph Earl, Elijah Boardman (1789)
81. John Singleton Copley, Elizabeth Gray Otis (1764)
82. John Singleton Copley, Colonel William Fitch and His Sisters Sarah and Ann Fitch (1800-1801)
