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Nationalism:1800-1850

Music

Sculpture

Architecture

Painting

Language

Cultural Forces

Gilbert Stuart George Washington

Gilbert Stuart John Adams, c. 1800/1815

John Trumbull Alexander Hamilton, c. 1806

John Trumbull The Surrender of Cornwallis (1820)

John Trumbull The Declaration of Independence (c. 1786-94)

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Sacred to the Memory of Washington John James Barralet

Benjamin West Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain

David Hill), 1776

Thomas Cole Landscape, c. 1825

Thomas Cole, “Landscape Composition, St. John in the Wilderness " (1827)

Thomas Cole The Voyage of Life: Childhood, 1842

Thomas Cole The Voyage of Life: Youth, 1842

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Thomas Cole The Voyage of Life: Manhood, 1842

Thomas Cole The Voyage of Life: Old Age, 1842

Thomas Cole, "The Course of Empire" (1835-39) Savage State

Thomas Cole, "The Course of Empire" (1835-39) Arcadian State

Thomas Cole, "The Course of Empire" (1835-39) Consummation

Thomas Cole, "The Course of Empire" (1835-39) Destruction

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Thomas Cole, "The Course of Empire" (1835-39) Desolation

Asher Brown Durand A Pastoral Scene, 1858

Asher Brown Durand Kindred Spirit, 1849

Asher Brown Durand Forest in the Morning Light,

c. 1855

William Sidney Mount Horse Dealers , 1835

William Sydney Mount Cider Making, 1841

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William Sydney Mount The Mill at Stony Brook

Bingham, George Caleb Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap

Bingham, George Caleb Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

Bingham, George Caleb The County Election

George Caleb Bingham The Jolly Flatboatmen (1846)

John J. Audubon The Birds of America

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State House, Boston Neoclassical Architecture c. 1780-1850

Court House, Newfane, VT, c. 1840 Greek Revival Architecture

Town & Davis & Frazee: Custom House, New York, 1833-42

Greek Revival Architecture

Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Ralph Emerson Self-Reliance; Nature Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha John Greenleaf Whittier Legends of New England Moll Pitcher Edgar Allen Poe The Fall of the House of Usher The Pit and the Pendulum

The Raven

Language & Literature The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“IN the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail, and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market-town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. …..

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John Quidor, "Rip Van Winkle" (1836)

A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Dietrich Knickerbocker (1809)

(Actually written by Washington Irving)

Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagination did so by sticking fast where they were, like an axis of the earth…. The soul is no traveller”

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

Moll Pitcher Oh Susannah Stephen Foster

I come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee

I'm going to Louisiana, My true love for to see

It rained all night The day I left

The weather it was dry The sun so hot, I froze to death

Susanna, don't you cry

Oh, Susanna, Oh don't you cry for me

For I come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee

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Noah Webster

gaol → jail centre → center honour → honor masque → mask

Some spelling changes were kept

Others were not ake Soop Tung wimmen

ache soup Tongue women

Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea– In her tomb by the side of the sea.

Nationalism:1800-1850

Architecture

Painting Patriotic Works •  John Trumbull •  Gilbert Stuart •  Benjamin West Hudson River School •  Thomas Cole •  Asher Durand Everyday Life • William Sydney Mount Nature • John James Audubon

Sculpture Early Leaders •  Esp. Washington (As mythic figures)

Music Stephen Foster •  Minstrel songs •  Oh Susannah

Language & Literature •  Noah Webster •  Washington Irving •  Ralph Emerson •  Nathaniel Hawthorne •  Longfellow •  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Neo-Classicism for public buildings

Cultural Forces