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TITLE: Art in North America - Colonial & 19th Century Painters

DESCRIPTION: COLONIAL: The Limners (1st American painters - 1600's - anonymous, itinerant face painters), Smibert 1688-1751 (1st N.A. artist we know about), Copley 1738-1820. 19TH CENTURY: 1. Cole 1801-1848, 2. Painters from Hudson River School (Cole's successors): Durand 1796-1886, Gifford1823-1880, Church 1826-1900, Innis 1825-94, Bierstadt 1830-1902, Leutze 1816-68, 3.The Luminists: Bingham 1811-1879, 4. Realism: Eakins 1844-1916, Harnett 1848-1892, 5. Painterly Mode: Whistler 1834-1903, Sargeant 1856-1925, 6. Mass Medium: Currier & Ives 1834-1906. OBJECTIVE IN AMERICA ALWAYS OPTICAL NATURALISM / ILLUSIONISM / TROMPE L'OEIL.