The Gilded Age Terms

Winslow Homer  (1836-1910)

     Prisoners from the Front, 1866, oil
     The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, oil
     Snap the Whip, 1872, oil
     Apple Picking, 1878, watercolor and gouache
     The Life Line, 1884, oil
     Fox Hunt, 1893, oil
     The Gulf Stream, 1899, oil
     After the Tornado, 1899, watercolor

The Gilded Age:  A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, 1873
Frederick Jackson Turner, "Frontier Thesis" (1893)
Homestead Act , 1862
J. P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie

Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
    The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1893-1901, oil

Jacob Riis (1849-1914)
    Five Cents a Night, c. 1889, photograph
    How the Other Half Lives, 1890

Haymarket Incident 1886
    Policmen Monument,  Johannes Gelert, 1889
    The Haymartket Monument, Albert Weinert, 1893

Robert Koeher (1850-1917)
    The Strike, 1886, oil

Richard Morris Hunt (1827-95)
    William Kissam Vanderbilt House, 1879-81, New York City, NY
     Biltmore House, 1895, Asheville, North Carolina. Landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903).  Built for
            George W. Vanderbilt.
     The Breakers, 1892-5, Newport, Rhode Island. Commissioned by William and Cornelius Vanderbilt
    The Metropolitan Museum, 1902, New York

Harriet Cany Peale (1800-1869)
    Her Mistress's Clothes, 1848, oil

Anonymous
    Trade-card advertisement for Edward Chamberlin & Co.'s "Concentrated Leaven,"  1860, lithograph

Mary Schelly Millikin.

    Crazy Quilt, c. 1883. (Detail of Water Lilies and Cattails, paint on velvet)

Maria Wilson Beardsley
    Crazy Quilt, c. 1883, Hamilton, Ohio.

M. M. Hemandred Ricard.
    My Crazy Dream, 1877, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1912

Mary Schelly Millikin.

    Crazy Quilt, c. 1883. (Detail of Water Lilies and Cattails, paint on velvet)

Mittie Belle Agner Barrier.
    Crazy Quilt with Animals and Birds.

Louis Prang and Co. after Eastman Johnson.  The Barefoot Boy, 1867, chromolithograph

Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives
Frances Bond Palmer
     Across the Continent:  "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way," 1868, hand-colored lithograph

Thomas Eakins    (1844-1916)

     Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, 1871, oil
     The Gross Clinic, 1875, oil
     The Agnew Clinic, 1889, oil
     The Swimming Hole, 1885, oil
     Miss Amelia Van Buren, c. 1891, oil

trompe l'oeil

William Michael Harnett (1848-1892)
   
    Faithful Colt, 1890, oil
    After the Hunt, 1885, oil   

John Haberle (1856-1933)
    A Bachelor's Drawer, 1890-94, oil

James A. M. Whistler (1834-1903)

     Frederick Leyand
     Salon des Refuses - 1863

    Harmony in Blue and Gold:  The Peacock Room (end-wall panel), oil paint and  metal leaf on canvas, leather, and wood.  Reconstructed in the
            Freer Gallery,  Washington, D.C.
    Self-Portrait, c. 1864, oil on canvas
    The White Girl (Symphony in White No. 1), 1862, oil canvas
    Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1 (The Artist’s Mother), 1871, oil on canvas
    Nocturne in Blue and Gold, Old Battersea Bridge, c. 1872-75, oil on canvas
    Nocturne in Black and Gold:  The Falling Rocket, c. 1874, oil on canvas

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)
    The Days, 1887, oil on canvas

Abbott Thayer (1849-1921)
    A Virgin,1892-93, oil on canvas
    Angel, 1889, oil

Kenyon Cox (1856-1919)
    Eclogue, 1890, oil

The Smoking Room from the John D. Rockefeller House, built 1869, reconstructed in the  Brooklyn Museum.

Gustave Herter (1830-98) and Christian Herter (1840-83)
    Cabinet, c. 1880, ebonized cherry, inalid and gilded woods.

Japonisme
International Exposition of 1867 in Paris
The Statue of Liberty, 1875-84, Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Auguste Bartholdi.

The Japanese Room. Plate from Mr. Vanderbilt’s House and Collection,1883-84, New  York City, New York.

Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933)
    favrile glass
     Art Nouveau
    Peacock Mosaic (Henry O.Havemeyer House, New York, New York), 1890-91,    indescent cabochon glass, pottery plaster.
    Tiffany Lamp, bronze and coppered Glass Electric Lamp with Glass Mosaic Floral  Design and Cobweb Shade, c. 1902
    Tiffany Lamp, 1910, bronze and leaded glass

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (1849-1932)
    Rookwood Pottery basket, 1882, painted underglaze and gilt overglaze on clay

Clara Chipman Newton (1848-1936)
    Horn Pitcher, 1882, painted underglaze decoration and gilt overglaze on clay.

 *Thomas Edison invents the incandescent lightbulb in 1879*
 Landscape with Peacock and Peonies, 1900-1910, leaded bavrile glass.

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

     El Jaleo, 1880, oil/canvas
     The Daughters of Edward D. Boit, 1882, oil/canvas
     Madame X (Mme. Gautreau), 1884, oil/canvas
     Doctor Pozzi at Home, 1881, oil/canvas
     Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888, oil
     Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, c. 1892, oil/canvas

Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)

     Sita and Sarita, 1893-94, oil
     Henry Sturgis Drinker (Man with a Cat), 1898, oil
     M. Adelaide Nutting, 1906, oil

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

     Five O'Clock Tea, 1880, oil
     At the Opera, 1880, oil
     Two Young Ladies in a Loge, 1882, oil
     The Boating Party, 1893, oil
     The Letter, 1891, drypoint/aquatint
     La Toilette, 1891, color print, dry point, soft ground etching, aquatint
         Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671-1751), Girl at a Mirror, Japanese woodcut
     Woman Bathing, 1891, 1891 color, dry point/aquatint
     Mother About to Wash Sleeping Child, 1880, oil
     Baby in Dark Blue Suit, 1889, oil
     Maternal Kiss, 1889, pastel
     Baby's First Caress, 1890, pastel
     Young Woman Picking Fruit, 1891

William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907)
     Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1884-85

Dankmar Adler (1844-1900) and Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
     Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri, 1890-91