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Colonial and Revolutionary Art

Making A New Nation, Part I

American StudiesWilliam Fremd High School

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Earliest Art in Colonial Life

• Art should be considered an artifact of history, not as a document.

• Art was notably absent for the first 50-60 years of colonial life. Why?

Thomas Smith: Self-Portrait, 1680

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Limners• Someone who

draws for a specific, private audience

• Primary occupation was home decorating (furniture, etc.); portraiture was a sideline

• Frequently anonymous (unsigned)

Anonymous: The Mason Children, 1670 (attributed to the Freake painter)

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Anonymous: Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary, ca. 1670

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Anonymous: Anne Pollard

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Joshua Johnson:

Portrait of Sea Captain

John Murphy, 1810

Joshua Johnson was the first

distinguished African-

American painter.

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Ralph Earl: Roger

Sherman

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Ralph Earl:

Portrait of A Man

with A Gun

I have so much land!!!

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Robert Feke: Sir Isaac Royall and Family

SisterSister-in -law

Daughter

Wife

Wealth

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John Hesselius: Charles Calvert and Colored Slave, 1761

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Justus Engelhardt Kuhn: Henry Darnall III as A Child

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18th Century Painting

• Drastic improvements in technique: depth, perception

• Artists were more well trained.

John Singleton Copley: Paul Revere

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John Singleton Copley: The Gore Children

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John Singleton

Copley: Mr. and

Mrs. Mifflin

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John Singleton

Copley: Mrs.

Seymour Fort

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John Singleto

n Copley: Boy and Squirrel

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John Singleton Copley: Watson and the Shark

How is this style different from the others we

have seen so far?

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