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Elizabeth Johns
Description: American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life
American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life
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Elizabeth Johns
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1991 by Elizabeth Johns
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Abolitionists, 33–36, 101, 106, 116. See also Slavery
Advice on the Prairie (Ranney), 225n. 35
African-Americans, 1, 137, 160, 197
in Homer’s works, 201–202
in Guy’s works, 4
in Krimmel’s works, 6
in Mount’s works, 25, 33–35, 37
as “other,” 11, 178
role of, in genre painting, 100–136 passim; stereotypical images of, 19–20, 141, 157
All Talk and No Work (Edmonds), 123
Allston, Washington, 3, 45
Amalgamation, 106, 107. See also African-Americans; Slavery
American Art-Union, 75–77, 224n. 25
and Bingham, 82, 87, 88, 89, 97
and Clonney, 110, 113
demise of, 94, 149, 197
and Edmonds, 156
and Mount, 37, 55
as patron, 90
and Spencer, 161, 162
and Woodville, 180, 181
American Farmer, The (Wood), 200, 201
Amistad incident, 116
Androbus, John, 229n. 6
Apple Gathering (Thompson), 148–151, 159, 168, pl. 19
Apollo Association. See American Art-Union
Arcturus (Democratic journal), 53, 153, 187
Astor Place riot, 189
Backwoodsman, 17. See also Frontiersman
Baltimore, 94, 122
Baltimore American, 94
Bargaining for a Horse [Farmers Bargaining] (Mount), 28–33, 36, 38, 45, 46, 47, 53, 55, 57, 77, 78, 110, 137, 138, 142, 146, 179, 196, 199, pl. 3
studies for, 29, 30, 31
Barlow, Joel, 10
Beard, James Henry, 225n. 35
Benton, Senator Thomas Hart, 83, 94
Biddle, Nicholas, 51
Bingham, George Caleb, 131, 175, 197
and election scenes, 91–99
and images of the West, 82–89, 102, 103, 137, 147, 176, 179
and images of women, 138, 164
Birch, Thomas, 4
Birch, William, 4
Blacks. See African-Americans
Blacksmith Shop, The (Johnson), 201, 202
Blair, Francis Preston, 52
Blythe, David Gilmour, 190–196
Boone, Daniel, 18, 62
Boone’s First View of Kentucky (Ranney), 80
Bootblack, The [Doing Nothing] (Yewell), 187, 188, 189–190
Boston, 3, 21, 91, 176, 196
Bostonians, 22, 28, 102
Boy Eating Bread (Blythe), 193
Boyhood, images of, 151–157, 201
Boys Hustling Coppers (Mount), 58
Brace, Charles Loring, 186
Breckenridge, Henry Hugh, 10
Brevoort, Henry, 41, 59, 181
Broadway Journal, 69, 77
Browere, Augustus, 44, 153, 163, 174
Brown, John George, 201
Bryant, William Cullen, 22, 60
Buffalo Newsboy (LeClear), 242n. 21
Burr, William Henry, 157–160, 197
Butler, Samuel, 75
Cafferty, James, 238n. 34, 242n. 25
Calculating (Hicks), 220n. 48
California, 90–91
California News (Mount), 219n. 47
Captured by Indians (Bingham), 236n. 2
Card Players (Woodville), 179, 180, pl. 22
Carey, Edward L., 32, 40, 186
Carson, Kit, 69, 70
Catching Rabbits [Boys Trapping] (Mount), 47, 49, 50, 57, 110, 137, 154
Catlin, George, 61, 63, 66, 75, 80
Caught in the Act (Matteson), 238n. 31
Channing, William Ellery, 182
Children, images of, 163, 170–175, 183–184
Christ Raising the Daughter of Jairus (Mount), 24
Cider Making (Mount), 50–54, 57, 77, 94, 138, 146, 154, pl. 5
City and the Country Beaux, The (Edmonds), 146–147, pl. 17
Civil War: and Bingham, 98
depiction of women after, 175
and end of genre painting, xi, 197, 198
and images of African-Americans, 103
and Johnson’s works, 127, 134, 135
Clay, Edward C., 26, 34, 35, 46, 47, 63, 64, 107
Clonney, James, 53, 157, 174, 175, 178
and images of African-Americans, 108–15, 122, 123
Cole, Thomas, 32, 44, 45, 218n. 36
Coming to the Point (Mount), studies for: 29, 30, 31
Compromise of 1850, 55–57, 110, 122, 124
Cooper, James Fenimore, xv, 18, 22, 44, 63, 75
Corn Husking Frolic (Fisher), 4, 5
Cosmopolitan Art Association, 14, 162, 164, 168, 174
Cosmopolitan Art Journal, 151, 164, 170, 198
County Election (Bingham), 92–98, 137, pl. 10
Courier and Enquirer, 34
Courtship, 143–151
Courtship, or Winding Up (Mount), 216n. 23
Crawford, Thomas, 123
Crayon, 197
Crockett, Davy, 11, 18, 62, 63, 65, 147
Crossing the Plains (Nahl), 225n. 35
Crowe, Eyre, 132–133
Cruikshank, George, 27
Cushing, Caleb, 52
Dance in a Country Tavern (Krimmel), 25, 105
Dance of the Haymakers (Mount), 119
Daniels, William, 190
Davis, Charles August, 50
Deas, Charles, 80, 142, 178, 185
compared to Bingham, 83, 85, 87, 92, 94
and images of the West, 66–78, 102, 103, 147, 163, 179, 203
Death Struggle, The (Deas), 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 85
Defiance: Inviting a Shot before Petersburg (Homer), 234n. 47
Delaroche, Paul, 90
Democratic party: and Arcturus, 153
and Bingham, 96
images of, 46, 47, 48, 49–58
in Jacksonian era, 24, 26
and slavery, 102
Disagreeable Surprise (Mount), 155
Douglass, Frederick, 102
Doughty, Thomas, 45
Downeaster, 15, 16
Downing, Jack, 15, 26, 32, 50, 62
Dunlap, William, 43
Durand, Asher B., 44
Durrie, George Henry, 55
Düsseldorf, 178, 197
Düsseldorf art union, 90
Dutchmen (in U.S.), 16, 44
Edmonds, Francis W., 59, 75, 103, 161, 175, 179, 181, 197
and images of African-Americans, 123
and images of masculinity, 146–147
and images of motherhood, 155–157, 159, 174
and images of women, 138, 164
and Mount, 54–55, 66
Eel Spearing at Setauket (Mount), 118–119, 131, pl. 13
Ehninger, John, 243n. 1
Election Scene, Catonsville, Baltimore County (Miller), 227n. 50
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 24, 131
Emigrants, 68
Emigration of Daniel Boone (Bingham), 225n. 35
European visitors, 8, 61
Farmers: in Bingham’s works, 92–93
and class distinctions, 98–99
as depicted in images, 103, 160, 179
disappear from imagery, 201
in Mount’s works, 28–42, 50–57, 84
and nation as farm, 208n. 15
as type, 12–14, 16
Farmers Nooning (Mount), 33–38, 77, 107, 111, 114, 120, 137, 197, pl. 4; study for, 36, 37
Femininity. See Women
Fink, Mike, 19
Firecracker (Blythe), 193, 194
Fisher, Alvan, 4, 5, 140
Flint, Timothy, 67–68
Fourth of July in Centre Square (Krimmel), 4, 6, 7
Frankenstein, John, 162
Fremont, John Charles, 64, 69
Frontiersman: images of, 60–82 passim, 99, 141
as type, 17–19
Gage, Frances, 162, 173
Genre painting: definition of, xi–xiv, 2–3
Dutch and Flemish, xi, 2, 3, 24, 131, 138, 164
English, xi, 2, 3, 24, 139, 143, 157, 182
French, xi, 2, 131, 139, 157, 182–183
German, 2, 139, 143, 182
Gift, The, 32, 155, 186
Gillray, James, 27
Gilmor, Robert, 113
Glance at New York (Baker), 20
“Go-ahead,” 10, 11, 23, 65
Godey’s Lady’s Book, 37, 148, 149, 152, 175
Good Breakfast, The (Clonney), 157
Goupil and Vibert, 90, 121, 123
Gray, Henry Peters, 90
Greek Slave, The (Powers), 90, 116, 117, 133
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 4, 174
Guy, Francis, 4, 104, 140
Guy, Seymour, 202
Hackett, James, 32
Haiti, 123
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 15
Halt on the Prairie (Ranney), 79–80
Happy Family (Sartain), 149, 150
Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 125
Harrison, William Henry, 50–51
Hawkins, Micah, 24, 27
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 38
Herald in the Country (Mount), 219n. 47
Herbert, William Henry, 70, 75
Hicks, Thomas, 201, 220n. 48
History painting, 3, 24, 44–45
Hogarth, 6–7, 27, 92–93, 138
Homer, Winslow, 201, 243n. 5
Hone, Philip, 9, 39, 182
Horsetrades, 26, 29, 49
Huntington, Daniel, 90, 187
Illinois Monthly Magazine, 62
Image Peddler (Edmonds), 54, 55, 138
In the Cornfield (Clonney), 110, 111
In the Woodshed (Clonney), 108, 109
Inman, Henry, 44, 59, 63, 184–187, 192
Intelligence Office, The (Burr), 157, 159, 160
Irish, 19, 94, 95, 176
Irving, Washington, 32, 41, 44, 59, 79
on New Yorkers, 14, 16
as source of images, 75, 154
on the West, 60, 68–69
Jackson, Andrew, 14, 18, 26, 53, 54, 57, 60
Jefferson, Thomas, 9, 13
Johnson, Eastman, 127–131, 201–202, 243n. 5
Johnston, David Claypoole, 27, 28, 29, 32, 63
Jolly Flatboatmen, The (Bingham), 84–87, 137, 198, pl. 9
Jonathan (yeoman type), 14, 41
Jones, W. Alfred, 127, 197
Josselyn, Lewis, 51
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 111–113, 127, 138
Kendall, Amos, 52
Kentuckians, 12, 18, 21, 63
Kentucky Statesman, 96
King, Charles Bird, 4
Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the ’Lasses (Spencer), 168, 169, 170
Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs (Mayr), 114, 127, 131, pl. 12
Knickerbocker, 14, 73, 76, 77, 118, 165
Know-Nothings, 193
Krimmel, John Lewis, 4–7, 25
and images of African-Americans, 104, 105, 114, 131
and images of women, 140
Labor and Leisure (Mayer), 243n. 1
Landscape painting, xiv, 3, 45, 161
Lanman, Charles, 58
Last War-Whoop, The (Tait), 99
LeClear, William, 242n. 21
Leslie, Charles Robert, 44, 161
Lessing, Carl Friedrich, 90, 125
Leupp, Charles, 114
Life of a Hunter, The: A Tight Fix (Tait), 81, 82
Literary World, 76, 81, 85, 120, 163, 180
Little Navigator, The (Spencer), 171, 172–174
Little Sunshade, The (Spencer), 172, 173–174
Long Islanders, 25, 41–42, 58–59
Long Island Democrat, 34
Long Jakes (Deas), 66–73, 75, 78, 79, 80, 85, 91, 131, 142, 179, 185, pl. 6; engravings of, 71, 72
Long Story, The (Mount), 42
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 116
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 38
Louisville Daily Times, 95
Lowell, James Russell, 115
Lucky Throw (Mount), 123, 126
Making a Train (Guy), 202
Manifest Destiny, 62
Marryat, Frederick, 46
Martineau, Harriet, 100–101, 141
Masculinity, 142, 144–147, 170
and images of African-American men, 236n. 13
and Western male type, 62, 68–73, 77–82, 84, 86, 90, 203
Matteson, Tompkins, 147, 155
Mayer, Francis Blackwell, 243n. 1
Mayr, Christian, 114, 127
Melville, Herman, 123
Mercy’s Dream (Huntington), 187
Mexican War, 66, 70, 75, 116, 180
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 63, 80, 226n. 222
Minstrelsy, 20, 103, 123
Missouri, 82, 83, 94
Missouri Compromise, 127
Morland, George, 25, 139
Morris’s National Press, 119
Mose the Fireman, 20, 178
Mother’s Watch (Clonney), 157, 158
Mount, Henry, 24
Mount, William Sidney, 67, 80, 89, 93, 96, 163, 175, 178, 181, 185
and images of African-Americans, 101, 105–108, 113, 115–127, 135–136
and images of courtship, 142–146
and images of women, 137, 138, 154
and images of Yankee farmer, 24–59, 63, 64, 66, 84, 103, 176
and patronage and criticism, 75, 76, 77, 197
Mowatt, Ann, 177
Mrs. McCormick’s General Store (Browere), 153, 154
Mulready, William, 139
Musicians (Mount), 233n. 33
Nahl, Charles Christian, 91
National Academy of Design (NAD), 22, 45, 76, 90, 123, 160
and Clonney, 113
and Mount, 31, 57
and Spencer, 162, 165
Native Americans, xv, 83, 99
in Deas’s works, 73, 75, 78–79
in Herbert’s works, 75
as image of the West, 63
Neagle, John, 4
Neal, John, 152
Negro Life at the South (Johnson), 127–135, pl. 15
Negro Politically Dead, The (Mount), 136
New Englanders, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23
New Orleans Daily Picayune, 98
New Scholar, The (Edmonds), 155, 156, 159
New York: and Bingham, 87–91, 94
and Blythe, 196
as center of art world, 101–102
dominance of, 7, 22–23
Dutch in, 16
in Guy’s works, 4, 104
and images of urban types, 182–190
impact of growth in, 176–179
and Leatherstocking, 18
and Mayr, 114
and Mount, 96, 101–102, 105
and Spencer, 161
New York American, 51
New York Daily Advertiser, 50
New York Daily Tribune, 79
New York Herald, 31, 80
New Yorkers, 90, 176
and Clonney, 114
and conception of frontiersmen, 17
and conception of Yankees, 15
as cultural brokers, 22–23, 46, 103
and Johnson, 130
and Mount, 25
and Spencer, 163
and Woodville, 180
News Boys, The (Blythe), 190, 191, 192, 193
Newsboy, The (Inman), 184–186, 192, pl. 24 Newton, Gilbert Stuart, 44
Niles Register, 39–40
Nothing Else to Do (Spencer), 173
Oertel, Thomas, 201
Old Kentucky Home (Johnson). See Negro Life at the South
On the Bright Side (Homer), 243n. 5
Otis, Bass, 4
Page, William, 242n. 21
Painter’s Triumph (Mount), 42, 43, 137
Painting, literary, 44, 75, 161
defined, xv
Panic of 1837, 46, 67
Parkman, Francis, 73
Paulding, James Kirke, 21, 101
Peddler, image of, 15, 21, 209n. 19
Philadelphia, 4–7, 75, 82, 91, 176, 196
Philadelphians, 22, 37, 63, 102
Pictorial puns, 28. See also Vernacular speech
Pittsburgh, 190–196
Playing Marbles (Blythe), 193
Poe, Edgar Allan, 22, 38, 182
Political caricature, 22, 26, 34–35, 41, 46, 47, 48
Politicians in a Country Bar (Clonney), 113, pl. 11
Politics in an Oyster House (Woodville), 179, pl. 23
Polk, James K., 64
Polling, The (Hogarth), 92, 93
Poor Author and Rich Bookseller, The (Allston), 4
Post Office (Blythe), 193, 195, 196
Power of Music, The (Mount), 119–123, pl. 14
Powers, Hiram, 90, 116, 117, 123
Prairie Fire (Ranney), 225n. 35, 236n. 3
Prairie Hunter, The—One Rubbed Out! (Tait), 80, 81,
Prints, 123, 198
and American Art-Union, 76, 97
anti-abolitionist, 106, 128
of Bingham’s work, 97–98
of Davy Crockett, 63–65
of Deas’s work, 70–72
by Johnston, 27–28
of Mount’s work, 32–33
of Spencer’s work, 164, 173–175
by Tait, 99
of Thompson’s work, 149, 150, 155
of urban lower class, 20, 115, 177–178. See also Political caricature
Prospectors: as type, 91
Pursuit, The (Tait), 99, pl. 8
Putnam’s, 152
Quakers: as type, 19
Quidor, John, 63
Quilting Frolic (Krimmel), 104, 105
Raffling for the Goose [The Raffle] (Mount), 38, 39, 40–41, 77, 137
Raftsmen Playing Cards (Bingham), 85, 86
Ranney, William, 88, 178
compared to Bingham, 82, 85, 87, 88, 92, 94
and images of the West, 78–80, 102, 103, 163, 203
Redgrave, Richard, 157
Reed, Luman, 32, 36, 55, 58
Reform movements, 115, 189
Remington, Frederic, 99, 203
Retreat, The (Ranney), 79, 80
Reynolds, Joshua, 3
Ringing the Pig (Mount), 57, 220n. 50
Rivermen, images of, 83–88, 98–99, 103, 179
Rollins, James, 97, 98
Rowlandson, Thomas, 27
Russell, Charles, 99, 203
Rustic Dance after a Sleigh Ride (Mount), 24–25, 35, 105–106, 120, 142, 144, 154, pl. 2
Sailor’s Wedding (Woodville), 123, 124
Saint Louis: and Bingham; critics in, 95
and Deas, 75
as trade center, 86
Saint Louis Evening Intelligencer, 95
Sarony, Napoleon, 149
Sartain, John, 98, 149, 150
Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art, 162
Schauss, William, 123, 124
Scheffer, Ary, 90
Schoolboys Quarreling (Mount), 154
Scott, Sir Walter, 44, 70
Settling the Bill (Durrie), 56, 57
Seward, William, 50–52
Shake Hands? (Spencer), 164, 168, 170, pl. 20
Shakespeare, William, 44, 161
Slave Auction in Richmond, Virginia (Crowe), 132–134, pl. 16
Slave auctions, 132–134, 233n. 42, 234n. 45
Slave Market (unidentified artist), 133, 134
Slavery, 19, 33–38, 59
images of, 100–136 passim, 117, 129, 133
Smith, Seba, 14, 26, 32, 50
Smollett, Tobias, 44
South. See Southerners
Southerners, 11, 15, 23
and Mexican War, 180
and slavery, 102, 106, 127–128, 132
stereotypes of, 16–17, 209n. 21
and Whig politics, 52. See also African-Americans; Slavery
Southwesterners, 17, 38, 182
“Sovereigns,” 140, 203
in Bingham’s works, 92–94
in Clonney’s works, 113
definition of, 10
in Midwest, 83
in Mount’s works, 29, 31, 41
as type, 13
in Woodville’s works, 179–180
Sovereignty, defined, 9
Speculation, land, 39–40
Spencer, Lilly Martin, 176, 178, 197
and images of children, 171–175
and images of women, 140, 160–170
Sportsman’s Last Visit, The (Mount), 144, 145, 146
Squatters, The (Bingham), 87, 89, 138
Sterne, Lawrence, 44
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 122
Street Urchins (Blythe), 192, pl. 25
Strong, George D., 185
Strong, George Templeton, 40
Stump Orator (Bingham), 92
Sturges, Jonathan, 36, 57, 113
Sugaring Off (Matteson), 147–148, pl. 18
Sully, Thomas, 4, 44, 161
Tait, Arthur F., 80–82, 99, 203
Taylor, Zachary, 180
Teniers, David the Younger, 138, 192
Terborch, Gerard, 138
Texas, 59, 66, 78, 110, 116
Thackeray, William, 132
Theater, 102. See also Yankee theater
There’s No Place Like Home (Hicks), 201
This Little Pig Went to Market (Spencer), 174–175, pl. 21
Thompson, Jerome, 147, 155, 168
Thoreau, Henry David, 60, 62
Thoughts of Liberia: Emancipation (White), 123, 125
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 9, 10, 79, 141
Trappers: images of, 66–82 passim, 90, 92, 94, 99, 103, 141, 179, 203
Trappers (Clonney), 110
Trapper’s Bride, The (Miller), 222n. 12
Trapper’s Last Shot, The (Ranney), 78–80, 85, 90, pl. 7
Trollope, Frances, 11
Truant Gamblers, The (Mount), 58, 155
Tuckerman, Henry, 134–135, 198
Tyler, John, 51, 66
Tyler, Royall, 13
Typing, xii–xiii, xv–xvi, 2, 7–10, 11–12, 21
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 122, 127
United States Bank, 26
United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 24, 38
Urban types, 20, 115, 157, 176–196 passim, 240n. 5
Van Buren, Martin, 46, 186
Verdict of the People, The (Bingham), 138, 139, 196
Vernacular speech, 15, 16, 18, 100
as social currency, 21
use by Clonney, 108–110
use by Durrie, 55–57
use by Edmonds, 54–55
use by Mount, 27–28, 29, 31, 35, 40, 41, 46–50, 51–54, 124
Village Politicians (Wilkie), 226n. 50
Virginians, 16, 21
Visiting Grandma (Oertel), 201
Waiting for the Stage (Woodville), 241n. 8
Waking Up (Clonney), 110, 112
Walker, William Aiken, 201
War News from Mexico (Woodville), 1, 121–122, 138, 180, 196, 198, pl. 1
Washington, D.C., 82
Washington, George, 54, 180
Watts, G. F., 157
Webb, James Watson, 34
Webber, Charles W., 73
Weed, Thurlow, 50–52
Weir, John F., 45
West, the, 18, 59
images of, 60–99 passim
Western Art Union, 90
Western Journal, 98
Western Monthly Magazine, 62
Westerners: and Bingham, 160–161, 179
images of, 60–99 passim, 137, 147
stereotypes of, 12, 16, 17–19, 23, 103, 178, 183, 197
Wheatley, Francis, 139
Whig party, 46–58, 96, 108
images of 47, 48
Which Way Shall We Go? (Clonney), 110
White, Edwin, 123
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 116
Who’ll Turn the Grindstone? (Mount), 220n. 50
“Wide-awake,” 9, 29
Wilkie, David, 24, 25, 32, 138, 139
Wilkins, James, 225n. 35
Willis, Nathaniel P., 90, 183
Winter Scene in Brooklyn (Guy), 4, 6, 104–105
Women: images of, 25, 60–99 passim, 178, 201–202 (post-Civil War)
as “other,” 11
stereotypes of, 19–20, 197
Wood Boat, The (Bingham), 87, 88
Woodville, Richard Caton: and images of African-Americans, 121–123, 131
and images of everyday life, 1, 198
and images of politics, 178–182
and images of women, 138
Wordsworth, William, 121
Wright, Fanny, 52, 138
Yankee: images of, 24–42 passim, 46–59 passim, 84, 146
as regional type, 12, 14–16, 18, 19, 183, 201
Yankee Peddler (Ehninger), 243n. 1
Yankee theater, 15, 26
Yeoman: images of, 25–59 passim, 113, 146
as ideal citizen, 12–14, 16
Yewell, George Henry, 187, 192
Young ’48 and Old ’76 (Woodville), 180, 181
Young Husband, The: First Marketing (Spencer), 165, 166
Young Merchants (Page), 242n. 21
Young Wife, The: First Stew (Spencer), 165, 167
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