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Farmers Nooning

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Description: Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America
The African-American artist Robert S. Duncanson painted landscapes in the style of the Hudson River School. Whether representing the Catskills, the Andes, or the Ohio River Valley, the so-called Hudson River School artists depicted locations in which forests, lakes, mountains, and streams stretched off into infinity and in which humans, if present at all, were mere bystanders at nature’s...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.107-157
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00093.006
Description: American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life
By 1830, when the population in the twenty-four states of the United States was twelve million people, of whom more than half were women and blacks, a number of white male voices from different social levels declared optimistically that democracy would at last be realized. Many had benefited from the vast expansion of suffrage in the years following the ratification of the Constitution; and more than a few previously humble citizens had risen to positions of economic power. With the triumph of …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.24-59
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00011.005

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