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Gilded Age: A Tale of Today- Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
This is a book by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in 1873. The book was based on lives after the Civil War of the wealthy, such as financiers and industrialists began to gain control of America and the economy. Artists were profiting from these people in power while labor workers were fighting to get paid fair wages. -
Centennial International Exhibition- Felix O. C. Darley and Stephen J. Ferris
The Centennial International Exhibition celebrated the 100th year of the United States of America separation from England. This celebrated the Declaration of Independence signing in Philadelphia. It represents the Gilded Age, women were working in factories because having the men work by themselves did not provide enough income for the households. American society is shown how important it was for them to be separated from England with a celebration that lasted from May or November of 1876. -
The Agnew Clinic- Thomas Eakins
This portrait was paid for by Dr. D. Hayes Angew's students for his retirement in 1889. In the portrait, it should have been only Agnew but Eakin's added the other students for free but he added Nurse Mary V. Clymer, who was top of her nursing class. Angew believed women should only stay home and do house work. This shows the Gilded Age had not changed much in the years but it was slowly progressing. Also, American society opened their eyes to women doing more and being more than a housewife. -
Five Cents a Spot- Jacob A. Riis
During this era, specifically the Gilded Age, this image shows the conditions of the working class living space. During this time it was a lot of hardworking men and women that were not paid enough for living. This shows the American society in this years as being no better than England, the country they wanted so badly away from. -
Eclogue- Kenyon Cox
Kenyon Cox studied with amazing artists in Europe. Once he returned home, he painted the Eclogue. The painting featured four exposed women and a man that is gazing upon them in the grasslands. He embraced the women's bodies and the figures they had but the painting was unacceptable at that time. At this time, women were not aloud to be viewed like that and being panting as such was a negative thing. This painting moves into the Ashcan School -
M. Adelaide Nutting- Cecilia Beaux
This painting was created during the early Ashcan artist era. During these years, women were still trying to their place and stand their ground even though women in power had become bigger. Nutting was a teacher at the University Hospital in Baltimore. Beaux had created controversial work over the years but in this painting, the details were that of painting a man. -
Laughing Child- Robert Henri
Robert Henri, George Bellows, William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan are the Ashcan artists. Their art portrayed the city and life around them as they seen it and used techniques that were new and different to others. They started testing what art was and what people found as beautiful and acceptable. They are the Ashcan artists and they showed a part of America that people wanted and needed to see, good or bad. This painting is one of Robert Henri's.
