Cincinnati Art & Architecture

An Honors Seminarled by

Theresa Leininger-Miller, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Art History (DAAP)

theresa.leininger@uc.edu

Elk Lick Cottage (1818)

Thomas Carneal, Elmwood Hall, 1818-20

Examining the “Mona Lisa” of daguerreotypes, the Cincinnati Panorama (1848)

at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

(left to right) TLM, Kirsten Boone, Brendan Carr, Kelsey Paul, Daniel Kang, Haley Fite,

Woody Stone, Amanda Mares, Frank Bolek, Robin Steyer, Michael Condon,

Rhiannon Zito, Seth Reichenbach, Abigail Yeater, Grant Wagner, Hayley Coleman

“Cincinnati Art & Architecture” at the Public Library in January, 2016

Landscapist Robert S. Duncanson

(1821-1872)

Murals (ca. 1848-50) at the Taft Museum of Art

James Presley Ball (1821-1904)

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

Benn Pitman, designer; Adelaide & Elizabeth Nourse, carvers, Bedstead (ca. 1882-83)

Hiram Powers, Ginevra (1828/41)

James Keys Wilson,

Plum Street Temple/

Isaac Mayer Wise Temple (1866)

John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (1866)

James Keys Wilson, Shoenberger House/Scarlet Oaks (1866-70)

August Von Kreling/Ferdinand Von Miller,

Tyler Davidson Fountain (1871)

Samuel Hannaford, Music Hall (1878)

Frank Duveneck, Whistling Boy (1872)

Henry Farny, The Unwelcome Guests (1887)

Elizabeth Nourse, La Mère (1888)

Paintings at the Cincinnati Art Museum

James McLaughlin,

Cincinnati Art Museum

(1886)

James A. Garfield Monument (1887)

William Henry Harrison Monument (1896)

Monuments of Presidents from Ohio

Joseph Steinkamp, Mercantile Library (1902)

Elzner & Anderson, Ingalls Building (1902-04)

W.W. Ahlschlager & Associates

with Delano & Alrich,

The Hilton Cincinnati

Netherland Plaza (1929-31)

Fellheimer & Wagner with Roland Wank and PaulCret, Union Terminal (1931-33)

Frank Lloyd Wright, Tonkens House

(1955)

Jim Dine, Cincinnati Venus (1988)

Andrew Leicester,

Cincinnati Gateway (1988)

Peter Eisenman, Aronoff Center for Design & Art, UC (1988-96)

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)

Film screening about the

obscenity trial against

the CAC in 1990

Zaha Hadid, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Contemporary Arts Center, 2003

ArtWorks mural by John Ruthven, Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon (2013)

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• clearly articulate the principal aesthetic concepts, visual characteristics, and major issues, styles, and content of art and architecture in Cincinnati, 1788-present

• demonstrate their understanding of the social, political, literary, and theoretical contexts of this work

• recognize the work of scholars well known in their fields and identify their methodological approaches and arguments

• apply this knowledge to readings from class, by evaluating primary and secondary sources, writing a research report, giving an oral presentation, and taking exams which include image identifications and essays

• research a work in Cincinnati and present that knowledge to classmates verbally

--atop Carew Tower

--on a catwalk in Union Terminal

Grant Wagner presenting research on

the Times-Star Building (1931)

Explore “Cincinnati Art & Architecture” in Spring, 2017!

23-ARTH-3090 meets on Th, 2-4:50