Encouraging American Genius


Encouraging American Genius: Master Painting from the Corcoran Gallery of Art

October 7 - December 31, 2006

The Mint Museum of Art

 

This exhibition, organized and circulated by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, features 74 works representing the best of colonial and federal portraiture, 19th century landscape and genre painting, and early 20th century realism. Notable artists included in the exhibition are Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Thomas Eakins, George Bellows, Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, John Sloan, Frederic Church, and Childe Hassam.

 

Online and Print Resources

The Encouraging American Genius show can be roughly broken down into chronological time periods. In order to facilitate your learning and research, print resources available in the Mint Museum Library and related websites have also been sorted, following the outline of the show.

 

General Resources

 

 

 

 

 

Birth of a Nation - American Art of the Colonial and Federal Periods

 

Gilbert Stuart

(North Kingston, R.I. 1755 - 1828 Boston, Mass.)

George Washington, after 1796

 

 

 

 

Natural Wonders - The Dawn of American Landscape Painting

 

 

Pictures of the People - The Rise of American Genre Painting

 

William Sidney Mount

(Setauket, N.Y. 1807 - 1868 Setauket, N.Y.)

The Tough Story - Scene in a Country Tavern, 1837

 

 

 

Broadening Horizons - Later Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting

 

Frederic Edwin Church

(Hartford, Conn. 1826 - 1900 New York, N.Y.)

Niagra, 1857

 

 

Post-Civil War Pluralism - Later Nineteenth-Century Genre and Still-Life Painting

 

Thomas Eakins

(Philadelphia, Pa. 1844 - 1916 Philadelphia, Pa.)

Singing a Pathetic Song, 1881

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cultural Crosscurrents - American Impressionism and Expatriate Painters

 

 

The Gilded Cage - Images of Women, 1875 - 1925

 

John Singer Sargent

(Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Maire Buloz Pailleron (Madame Edourad Pailleron), 1879

 

 

 

Art for a New Century - The Eight and Fourteenth Street School

 

George Wesley Bellows

(Columbus, Ohio 1882 - 1925 New York, N.Y.)

Forty-two Kids, 1907

 

 

 

Between the Wars - The Emergence of American Modernism

 

Marsden Hartley

(Lewiston, Maine 1877 - 1943 Ellsworth, Maine)

Berlin Abstraction, 1914-15

 

 

 

 

Don't Forget to Visit!

All of the books listed above are available in the Mint Museums Library, but the resources we can provided don't stop there. Additional books and other print resources are also available. Make an appointment to stop by and take advantage of them today!

 

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Page created by Janie Buckley, intern, for the Mint Museum.