Art History: The Art Historyining

John Gast, American Progress, 1872

Thomas Moran, Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, 1861-62

David Drake, Food Storage Jar, 1858

Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the Front, 1866

Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, 1863

Winslow Homer, The Cotton Pickers, 1876

David Gilmour Blythe, Prospecting, c. 1864-65

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Greensward Plan of Central Park, 1858

Karyn Oliver, Here and Now/Glacier, Shard, Rock, 2015

Jacob Riis, Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement—“Five Cents a Spot”, ca. 1890

John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet Painting, 1885

Claude Monet, Impression: Sun Rising, 1873

Camille Pissarro, The Cabbage Path, 1878

James McNeill Whistler, Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach, 1863

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, 1903

Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1903

Georgia O’Keeffe, The Lawrence Tree, 1929

Alexandre Hogue, The Crucified Land, 1939

Dorothea Lange, Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, 1938

Samuel Joseph Brown, The Lynching,
1934

Isamu Noguchi, This Tortured Earth, 1942-43

Jackson Pollock, Alchemy, 1947

Robert Rauschenberg, Earth Day, 1970

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80

Ana Mendieta, Silueta, 1973

Maya Lin, What is Missing?, 2010-ongoing

Andy Warhol, Whooping Crane, 1986

Kerry James Marshall,
The Land that Time Forgot, 1992

Kongo artist, Dibondo (Grave Object), ca. 1800

Edo artist (Benin), Plaque with Mudfish, mid-16th to 17th century

Bamum artist (Cameroon), Male Figure, late 1800

Kongo artist, Nkisi Kozo (power figure of a dog), c. 1900

William Kentridge, Still image from Mine, 1991

George Osodi, De money series no. 1,
2009

Nathalie Mba Bikoro, The Uncomfortable Truth, 2011