Art of
The Gilded Age
Late 19th Century American Art
American Studies
William Fremd High School
Mr. Anderson Mr. Palmer Mr. Schaefer
Ms. Marsh Mr. Mc Cusker
• Discuss one of Winslow Homer’s paintings.
Describe it and its subject.
• Children were the major focus of most of
Homer’s works, discuss why they were and
what was the focus.
• Discuss one of Thomas Eakins’ paintings.
Describe it and its subject.
• Compare John Singer Sargents’ idea of
“W-O-M-A-N” and Mary Cassat’s focus of
woman.
Winslow Homer
1836-1910
• Reaction to Civil War
• Reaction to
Industrialization
• Childhood
• African-Americans
“Soldier Meditating by a Grave”
Winslow Homer’s Reaction to the
Civil War: Veteran In A New Field
Winslow Homer’s Reaction to the
Civil War: Prisoners from the Front
Winslow Homer’s Reaction to
Industrialization and Paintings
about Childhood
Snap the Whip
Winslow Homer’s Reaction to
Industrialization and Paintings
about Childhood
The Country School
Winslow Homer’s Reaction to
Industrialization and Paintings
about Childhood
Sailing the Catboat
Winslow Homer’s Reaction to
Industrialization and Paintings
about Childhood: Boat
Winslow
Homer’s
Reaction to
Industrialization
and Paintings
about
Childhood:
Fresh Air
Winslow Homer’s Paintings about AfricanAmericans: The Water-Melon Boys
Does this
image look
familiar?
Winslow Homer Paintings about
African-Americans: A Visit from
the Old Mistress
Winslow Homer Paintings about
African-Americans: The Cotton
Pickers
Winslow
Homer
Paintings
about
AfricanAmericans:
Upland
Cotton
Winslow Homer Paintings about
African-Americans: A Sunday
Morning in Virginia
Winslow
Homer
Paintings
about
AfricanAmericans:
The Busy Bee
Other painters of the period expressed similar sentiments
about the state of African-Americans.
Edward Lamson Henry: Kept In
Winslow Homer’s
Realism/Naturalism: The Blue
Boat
Winslow Homer’s
Realism/Naturalism: The Sponge
Diver
Winslow Homer’s
Realism/Naturalism: The Gulf
Stream
Winslow Homer’s
Realism/Naturalism: Fog Warning
Winslow Homer’s Realism/Naturalism:
Lost on the Grand Banks
In 1998, Microsoft’s Bill Gates paid more than $30,000,000 for this painting,
the most ever for an American painting. (Doris Homer, one of Winslow
Homer’s living relatives said, “It’s not worth it!”)
Winslow Homer’s
Realism/Naturalism:
Right and Left
Winslow Homer’s
Realism/Naturalism: An October
Day
Winslow Homer’s
Realism/Naturalism: Deer
Drinking
Thomas Eakins
1844-1916
Thomas Eakins
was fascinated
by the human
form.
He sought to
capture it in
action and in its
purest forms.
Baseball Players
Practicing
Thomas Eakins:
The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins:
Detail of
The Gross
Clinic
Thomas Eakins:
Study of the Head of
Samuel David Gross
Thomas Eakins:
The Agnew Clinic
Thomas Eakins:
John Biglin in
A Single Scull
Thomas Eakins:
Max Schmitt in
A Single Scull
Thomas Eakins:
The Biglin Brothers Turning the
Stake
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1834-1903)
Study in Grey and Black
James Abbott McNeill
Whistler: At the Piano
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Symphony in
White
Symphony in
White II
Impressionism:
A style of painting started in France
during the 1860s. Impressionist artists tried to paint candid
glimpses of their subjects in everyday life, which showed the
effects of sunlight on objects and people at different times and in
different weather conditions throughout the day.
Mary Cassatt
Reine Leaning over
Margot’s Shoulder
John
Singer
Sargent
1856-1925
Self Portait
W.
O.
M.
A.
N.
John
Singer
Sargent:
Carnation
Lily, Lily
Rose
John
Singer
Sargent:
Mrs.
George
Swinton
John
Singer
Sargent:
The
Acheson
Sisters
John Singer
Sargent:
Madame X
John Singer
Sargent:
Lady
Agnew of
Lochnaw
John Singer
Sargent: Mrs.
Carl Meyer
and Her
Children
John Singer
Sargent:
Alice Vanderbilt
Shepard
John Singer
Sargent:
Mrs. Henry
White
John Singer
Sargent:
Mrs. Hugh
Hammersley
John Singer
Sargent:
The
Daughters of
Edward
Darley Boit
John
Singer
Sargent:
Mr. And
Mrs. John
Phelps
Stokes
W.
O.
M.
A.
N.
Another
side of
John
Singer
Sargent:
The
Hermit
Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
• The only American to
exhibit with the French
Impressionists
• One of only two women
to exhibit with the
French Impressionists
• Concentrated on the
public and private lives
of women
Breakfast in Bed
Mary Cassatt:
The Garden
Mary
Cassatt:
The Bath
Mary
Cassatt:
At the
Opera
Mary
Cassatt:
At the
Theater
Mary
Cassatt:
Lydia in
a Loge
Wearing
a Pearl
Necklace
Mary Cassatt:
Lydia Seated at an Embroidery
Table
Mary Cassatt:
Woman
Reading in a
Garden
Mary
Cassatt:
Mrs. Duffee
Seated on a
Striped
Sofa
Mary Cassatt:
The Cup of Tea
Mary
Cassatt:
The
Letter
(based on
a
Japanese
print)
Mary Cassatt:
Alexander J.
Cassatt and
His Son
Maurice
Prendergast
1858-1924
Allies Day,
May, 1917
Maurice Prendergast:
Central Park, 1901