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TitleGeorge Washington

Creator nameGreenough, Horatio

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1840

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

Dimensions136 × 102 × 82 1/2 in. (345.4 × 259.1 × 209.6 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/george-washington-9575

Accession number1910.10.3

SubjectsNeoclassicism (Art)Presidents--United States--PortraitsPortrait sculpture, AmericanUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)

StatusTransfer from the U.S. Capitol

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2. Landscape, Democracy, Race, 1830–1850

John Davis, Michael Leja

Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources

American historians refer to the period of the late 1820s to about 1850 as the Jacksonian Era, a way of indicating the importance of the polarizing figure of Andrew Jackson, president from 1829 to 1837, in nearly every aspect of politics, culture, and society in the United States during these years. Jackson was a leader like no other the young nation had seen. The first six presidents had all been...

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John Davis, Michael Leja

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.60-103

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00199.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20027&redirecttoanchor=25485

Chapter subject tags:Artists' writingsUnited States--In artArt--Political aspectsSlavery--United StatesLandscape painting

5. The Capitoline and Vatican Sculpture Galleries: Temples of Art and the Religion of Beauty

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

John Singer Sargent’s Roman sketchbook of 1869 contains—besides a pale gray wash of the Colosseum and a drawing of the white oxen of the Campagna—studies by the sixteen-year-old artist of the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican ...

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William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.182-392

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.010

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Chapter subject tags:Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925Painting, American--19th centuryArtists--Travel--Italy--RomeJames, Henry, 1843-1916Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Laocoön (Legendary character)Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892American literature--19th centuryGreenough, Horatio, 1805-1852Sculpture, American--19th centuryRome (Italy)--In literatureSculpture, Roman

2. Bingham’s Boone

David M. Lubin

Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America

~~Before we, too, abandon Ariadne on her desert isle, let us pause to consider her as the foundation of nineteenth-century American landscape painting. The future wife of Bacchus, nature god of wine and revelry, Ariadne, in all her sumptuous availability, is the trope of bountiful America ready for the taking. Such availability, in...

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David M. Lubin

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.55-105

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00093.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15955&redirecttoanchor=25485

Chapter subject tags:Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820American frontierCumberland Gap (Ky. And Va.)Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879Missouri River

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