ART 372 American Art and Culture: From the Age of Discovery to the Age of Lincoln

Surveys American artistic and cultural expression from the colonial period to the end of the Civil War. Introduces American painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and graphic work in a broad social and historical context. Includes the work of Copley, the Peale family, Jefferson, Cole, Durand, Bierstadt, Caitlin, Leutze, Greenough, Powers, Brady and Gardner.