19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE

BEGINNINGS: THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS

Falls of the Kauterskill, Catskill Mountains, London Stereoscopic Company. 1858?.

Crystal Falls, Catskill Mountains, London Stereoscopic Company. 1858?.

Mountain Scene, Catskill Mountains, London Stereoscopic Company. 1858?.

BEGINNINGS: COOPERSTOWN

Cooperstown from Observation Hill. 1865?.

Cooperstown from Mt. Vision. 1865?.

Cooperstown. Litograph on paper. 1872.

Leatherstocking Falls. 1865?.

ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM

ROMANTICISM AND TRASCENDENTALISM

[…] Nature is the representative of the universal mind, and the law becomes this,-- that Art must be a complement to nature, strictly subsidiary. […] I say that the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstances. Nature paints the best part of the picture; carves the best part of the statue; builds the best part of the house; and speaks the best part of the oration.

Thought on Art, 1841. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kaaterskill Falls, Catskill Mountains by Thomas Cole. 1827.

View on the Catskill Thomas Cole. 1844.

A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains by Thomas Cole. 1844.

Kindred Spirits by Asher Brand Durand. 1849.

Mount Washington by John Frederick Kensett. 1869.

THE LITERARY IMAGINATION

The Catskill falls. Illustration from Rip Van Winkle. 1863.

The Hudson River. Illustration from Rip Van Winkle. 1863.

Earliest graphic representation of Leatherstocking. 1823.

Illustration for Edward S. Ellis’ Seth Jones or The Captives of the

Frontier. 1860.

Illustration for Edward S. Ellis’ The Riflemen of the Miami. 1862.

REACHING THE AMERICAN WEST 1804-1890

Shoshone Falls, Snake River (Idaho) by Timothy O’Sullivan. 1874.

Pyramid Lake (Nevada) by Timothy O’Sullivan. 1876.

Twin buttes near Green River City (Wyoming) by Timothy O’Sullivan. 1872

ROMANTICIZING THE AMERICAN WEST

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains (California) Albert Bierstadt. 1868.

The Domes of the Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt. 1867.

Mosquito Trail by Thomas Moran. 1847.

REPRESENTING THE INDIAN

Buffalo Bull’s Back Fat, Blood Tribe. George Catlin. 1832.

Attacking the Grizzly Bear. George Catlin. 1844.

The Cutting Scene (Mandan Ceremony). George Catlin. 1832.

Pawnee man Sioux man. Circa 1867.

We-no-na (First Born). Circa 1862.

Omaha leader. Daguerreotype in Henry Morgan collection. 1852.

THE INDIAN IN THE LITERARY IMAGINATION

Illustration for Edward S. Ellis’ The Fighting Trapper. 1874

Illustration for The Black Princess. Beadle& C. 1871.

Illustration for Crack Skull Bob. Orum & C. 1872.

Illustration for Edward S. Ellis’ The Lost Trail: a Legend of the Far West. Beadle & C. 1864.