The document discusses American art from the 18th century to the 1920s, covering various artistic movements and styles over this period. It provides examples of key works by artists such as Benjamin West, John Trumbull, John Singleton Copley, George Caleb Bingham, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, and Thomas Hart Benton. The final sections discuss the Art Deco style that emerged in the 1920s, inspired by industrial growth, and highlight some iconic Art Deco buildings from that era like the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center.

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2. 18th Century American
Painting
Benjamin West, The Treaty of Penn with the

3. 18th Century American
Painting
John Trumbull, The Death of General
Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December

4. 18th Century American
Painting
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark,

5. Romanticism

6. 19th Century American
Painting
George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the
Missouri, (1845)

7. 19th Century American
Painting
Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s
Peak, (1863)

8. 19th Century American
Painting
Winslow Homer, The Coral Divers,
(1885)

9. Realism
Landscape
Impressionism

10. The 1920s

11. George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo,

12. Thomas Hart Benton, Boomtown,

13. Ben Shahn, Sacco and Vanzetti,

14. John Held, Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks,

15. John Steurt Curry, Baptism in Kansas,

16. Unknown, “Don Juan,” Starring John Barrymore,
(1926)

17. Archibald John Motley, Jr.
Self Portrait (1920)
Palmer C. Hayden “Bal Jeunesse,”

18. Cloyd Lee Boykin, Charles Lindbergh,

19. Howard Thain, The Great White Way-Times Square,
N.Y.C., (1925)

20. Art Deco
The streamlined, brightly colored,
overlapping and repeating geometric
design elements typical of Art Deco
style were in many instances inspired by
the movement of machines and the great
industrial growth of the 1920’s.
For many Americans during the 1920’s,
Art Deco symbolized the period’s
optimism about the future of technology,
industry, and the modern world.
Art Deco derived its name from the 1925
Exposition Internationale des Arts

22. Chrysler Building - NYC

23. Empire State Building - NYC

24. Rockefeller Center -
NYC

25. City Hall – Buffalo, NY