Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: AMERICAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE BEFORE 1900

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course will cover such topics as portraiture in colonial America, the neoclassical movements in American sculpture, the landscape painting of the Hudson River School, and the art of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sergeant. We will study the relationship between American philosophy (especially transcendentalism) and painting. Includes European and Latin American art as relevant.