1. The Great American Landscape Painters 1825-1870

2. Study from Nature: Rocks and Trees c. 1836 Oil on canvas 21 1/2 x 17 in Detail? Color? Focus? Lighting?

3. Mount Aetna from Taormina 1844 Oil on canvas 32 1/4 x 48 in (1801-1848)

5. Heart of the Andes 1859 Oil on canvas 66 1/8 x 119 1/4 in. Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900)

6.  Artists such as Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Frederick Church were inspired by American literature  Emily Dickenson  Walt Whitman

7. , 1857. Oil on canvas, 41-1/2 x 90-1/2 inches. Why does Church choose to position the viewer at this point of view?

8. Church The Icebergs 1861 Oil on canvas 64 1/4 x 112 1/4 in Luminism (1850’s-1870’s) Depicting the sublime Clues ◙ Color ◙ Brush Stroke ◙ Subject ◙ Composition

9. (American, 1826-1900) Cotopaxi, 1862 Oil on canvas, 48 x 85 inches “art is justified by what it does, rather than what it is.” -Michael J. Lewis American Sublime. New CriterionNew Criterion | September 1, 2002| Lewis, Michael J

10.  Steam Engines (Trains)  Steamships  Industrial Growth  Increase in population  Deforestation  Plowed Land  Farming/Agriculture ACTUALLY- after the commotion in Europe over the HRS artists, even MORE people began to visit the U.S. (not exactly in Cole’s plan)

12. Soleil Levant (Impression Sunrise) 1872 Oil on canvas Claude Monet -Color -Brush stroke -Subject -Composition

13. Thomas Cole Asher B. Durand http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/church/church_aurora_borealis.jpg.html