American Art: Romanticism to Realism (1800-1900)

By 11smorbe
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    American Art: Romanticism to Realism

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    President Thomas Jefferson attains the Louisiana Purchase

  • Erie Canal Opens

    The Erie Canal Opens connecting New York to a vast interior of the nation

  • Thomas Jefferson writes his last letter before his death

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his essay Nature

  • The Oxbow by Thomas Cole

    The Oxbow by Thomas Cole

  • James Fenimore Cooper publishes the last of his "Leatherstocking Tales"

    these novels focused on "noble savage" Natty Bumppo. He published the first novel in 1821
  • Buffalo Chase

    Buffalo Chase

    by George Catlin

  • Failed Revolution in present day Germany

    citizens rose in demand for a unified and democractic nation, Germany
  • Washington Crossing the Delaware

    Washington Crossing the Delaware

    Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze finishes painting Washington Crossing the Delaware in 1850

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

  • Civil War begins

  • A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863

    A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863

    Timothy O'Sullivan captures the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg

  • Civil War ends

  • A Veteran in a New Field

    A Veteran in a New Field

    Winslow Homer depicts civil war soldier returning to farming

  • Transcontinental Railroad is complete

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

  • Fr. Abram J. Ryan publishes "Conquered Banner"

  • Thomas Edison builds first incandescent eletric light

  • Brooklyn Bridge Opens

    Brooklyn Bridge Opens

    connects Brooklyn to Manhattan