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19th century, Antebellum
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Influenced by European Romantic Era
Uniquely American
Literature—Washington Irving, James FenimoreCooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
Art—Hudson River School
Thomas Cole, Frederick Edwin Church, Fitz Henry Lane, John James Audubon, George Catlin
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Arwhoolies—Call and response; instrument = voice
Cornfield HollerOh, etc.I won't be here long.Oh, etc.Oh, dark gonna catch me here,Dark gonna catch me here.Oh, etc.
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Cole believed the intellect was paramount in creating great works of art. He wrote, "If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced in either Painting or Poetry."
(left) Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), Portrait of Thomas Cole, c. 1845, pencil on paper, John Wilmerding Collection; National Gallery of Art
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Whip-poor-will, 1830 Pileated Woodpecker, 1831
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1. What else was happening in America at the time these paintings were created (1826-1857)? List as many things as you can.
2. Write a thesis statement that reflects how one or more of these paintings reflects an emerging ideal about democracy in America OR an emerging concept of American identity. (Remember, a good thesis
statement does more than restating the question.)