Transcript American Art

The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole, a noted Hudson River School artist
 Stressed creativity
and emotion
 Inspired by nature
 The American
wilderness
 Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
 “Paul Revere’s
Ride”
 Founded by Asher
Durand
 Painted lush
landscapes
 Many traveled west for
inspiration
 John James Audubon
 Drew birds, mammals,
plants, and other subjects
of nature
 His Birds of America is the
most important work on
birds ever published
 Develop American
beliefs and style
 Do not copy the
Europeans
 Part of the
Transcendentalism
movement
 Emerson’s student
 Moved to Walden pond to
write
 Thought people should live
by their own standards
 Member of the
Transcendentalism movement
 Spiritual world is more
important than the
physical world
 “Civil Disobedience”
 Do not obey laws you feel
are unjust
 Nathaniel Hawthorne- The
Scarlet Letter
 Inspired by the Witchcraft trials
 Washington Irving- “Rip Van
Winkle” & “The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow”
 First American writer to gain
fame in Europe
 Herman Melville- Moby Dick
 Desire to kill a white whale
 Edgar Allen Poe- “Murders in
Rue Morgue”
 Wrote the 1st detective stories
 Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass
 Unrhymed poems about ordinary
people