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Most of early American art (from the late 18th century through the early 19th century) consists of history painting and especially portraits. As in Colonial America, many of the painters who specialized in portraits were essentially self-taught; notable among them are Joseph Badger, John Brewster Jr., and William Jennys.
The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. Early on, the paintings typically depicted the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill , Adirondack , and White Mountains .
The term luminism was introduced by mid-20th-century art historians to describe a 19th-century American style of painting that developed as an offshoot of the Hudson River School. The historian John I. H. Baur identified the style in the late 1940s, calling it "luminism" in a 1954 article. [ 5 ]
In nineteenth century, the western American was considered as a symbol of freedom and unknown, encouraging artists to give support to the movement in the 19th century. [10] After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, artists and explorers were inspired by the changes to enter the westward which provided a stage for the young to challenge their talent.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century African-American painters and Category:19th-century Native American painters and Category:19th-century American women painters The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
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Folk art in the United States refers to the many regional types of tangible folk art created by people in the United States of America.Generally developing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when settlers revived artistic traditions from their home countries in a uniquely American way, folk art includes artworks created by and for a large majority of people.
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter.