*American Artists
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Benton | the best known muralist of the 1930's and 1940's |
| Borglum | carved monumantal works on mountainsides; most notebly for Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota |
| Bulfinch | designed the Capitol Biulding in D.C. |
| Calder | famous for mobles which he invented in 1932 |
| mobile | given to Calder's work by Marcel Duchamp |
| Mary Cassatt | Impressionalists painter; painted motherhood with paintings of women and children |
| Eakins | The Gross Clinic |
| Fuller | developed the geodesic dome |
| James Hoban | designed and built the White House and rebuilt it again after the war of 1812; was supervising arcitect of the US Capitol |
| Homer | worked with watercolor and painted landscapes and seascapes of New England and Florida; he recorded the Civil War for the Horper's Weekly; painted Gulf Stream, Breaking Storm, and The Hurricane |
| Edward Hopper | painted large, quiet urban scenes; painted Nighthowks and Early Sunday Morning |
| Johns | leading exponent of Pop Art; painted Flag, a copy of the US flag and painted Bronze, a painting a two beer cans |
| Johnson | he collaborated with Mies Van Der Rohe on the Seagram Building in NYC |
| L'Enfant | was the arcitect and designer of the new US Capital Building in D.C. |
| Lichtenstein | artist of the Pop Art movement; painted paintings that resemble comic strips |
| Moses | painted scenes of rural life; painted Sugaring-Off |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | painted Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue |
| Olmstead | landscape architect; designed NYC's Central Park |
| Pei | works include the East Wing of the National Galley of Art in D.C. and a new subterranean entrance crowned by a glass period for the Louvre in Paris |
| Pollock | a pioneer of abstract expressionism; his style is known as drip painting and action painting |
| Rockwell | painted scenes of everyday American life depicted on the covers of Saturday Evening Post |
| Saarinen | designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and The Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, VA |
| Andy Warhol | was the leading figure in Pop Art; painted paintings of commonplace objects including Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe |
| West | became the history painter to King George III and helped found the Royal Academy of Arts |
| Whistler | painted The Artist's Mother: Arrangement in Gray and Black |
| Grant Wood | painted scenes of the rural Midwest; painted American Gothic |
| Wyeth | painted Christina's World |
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