Colonial American Art: Emerging Democracy

Artist: Benjamin West

Title: The Death of Wolfe

1) dynamic pyramid 

2) history painting

3) Wolfe is a martyr 

Artist: Paul revere

Title: The Boston Massacre

1) anti-british propaganda

2) circulated by sons of liberty

3) Preston is put behind his men 

Artist: John Singleton Copley

Title: Paul Revere

1) linear style

2) silver smith

3) celebrates common people 

Artist: John Singleton Copley

Title: Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mifflin 

1) linear style

2) breaks traditional marriage portrait style

3) both engaged in self-improving activities

Artist: John Singleton Copley

Title: Samuel Adams

1) linear style

2) list of grievances

3) was a son of liberty

Artist: Charles Wilson Peale

Title: Washington and his Generals at Yorktown

1) painterly style

2) history painting

3) does not shy away from violence of war

Artist: Charles Wilson Peale

Title: The Artist in His Museum 

1) founded first US national history museum 

2) celebrates knowledge and Enlightenment ideas

3) did most of the taxidermy 

Artist: Charles Wilson Peale

Title: The Exhumation of the Mastodon

1) promotes enlightenment

2) Peale buys rights to excavation site

3) borrows pump from Jefferson

Artist: Jean-Antoine Houdon

Title: George Washington

1) man-size, not god-like

2) sheathed sword = peace

3) commissioned by Jefferson

Artist: Emanuel Leutze

Title: Washington Crossing the Delaware

1) painted in Germany

2) dynamic pyramid

3) artist used tourists as models 

Artist: John Trumbull

Title: The Battle of Bunker Hill

1) painterly style

2) dynamic pyramid

3) history painting

Artist: John Trumbull

Title: Declaration of Independence

1) history painting

2) painted most figures “from the life”

3) “shin piece”