1. America during the 1820’s A view from art and literature

2. A Growing Sense of Nationhood standards Discuss daily life including traditions in art music and literature, of early national America.

3. John James Audubon Audubon was born in Haiti He came to America to escape serving in Napoleon’s army. He lived primarily in the Ohio River Valley

6. Charles Bird King King drew pictures and made paintings of Native Americans His paintings were loved in Europe where many people were interested in the West. You can see them now in the Smithsonian

7. TAH-RO-HON,AN IOWAY WARRIOR

8. JACK-O-PA THE SIX, CHIPPEWA CHIEF

9. RED JACKET, SENECA WAR CHIEF

10. What’s your impression? Describe the Seminole chief in the picture. What character traits can you draw from the picture? What questions come to mind from the picture? What do you think Bird thought of this chief and why?

11. James Otto Lewis Lewis was an engraver and a painter He was hired by the US government to make drawings of ceremonial events in the West such as treaties.

12. Kaa Nun Der Waaguinse Zoo The Berry Picker Famous Chippewa Chief

13. Thomas Cole Cole founded the Hudson River School of Painting He was born in England But raised in the US. In 1825, he moved to the Catskill Mts., a wilderness in upstate New York Cole was captivated by nature. He took in painting students and taught his love of landscape - The Hudson River School

14. Hudson River School of Painting Landscape or pictures of nature Nature is very big and strong dwarfing human figures This school of painting which lasted from 1825 - 1900 inspired music and literature and American pride.

15. Mountain Craggs

17. the Hunter Returns

19. The Falls at the Katskills

20. The Hudson River School and Thomas Cole Cole was very worried about industrialism and railroads expanding into the wilderness. How do his paintings reflect his love of nature and fear for the future? What is the scale of man to nature? Why, do you think, did he use this scale? What was Cole’s ideal America?

21. James Fennimore Cooper America’s first novelist Also, America’s first local historian Famous works include The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans

22. From “A History of Cooperstown” (yes, the same as the baseball hall of fame) The site of the present village of Cooperstown, is said to have been a favorite place of resort with the adjacent savage tribes, from a remote period. The tradition which has handed down this circumstance, is rendered probable by the known abundance of the fish and game in its vicinity. The word "Otsego," is thought to be a compound which conveys the idea of a spot at which meetings of the Indians were held.

23. Washington Irving Was born and raised in New York Worked for he government Loved to make fun of power and greed Had a great love of nature.

24. In your spirals From what you have read and seen about America in the 1820’s, what were the common threads that linked the country together? What evidence do you see of a unique American identity? What did you see or read that interested or surprised you? Think about the birth places of the artists.