Global Vistas: American Art and Internationalism in the Gilded Age [online only]
Teaching Gallery
Global Vistas: American Art and Internationalism in the Gilded Age explores the importance of international travel and exchange to American art of the late nineteenth century, a period of transition for the United States marked by the rise of global trade, international tourism, massive waves of immigration, and forces of orientalism and imperialism.
Through a selection of paintings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, as well as other collections at Washington University in St. Louis, this Teaching Gallery exhibition reveals how Americans increasingly defined their nation by looking to the foreign cultures and landscapes of Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Caribbean basin. They imbued their art with a modern, multicultural spirit that also announced the country’s emerging status as a global power.
Selected works
![x1985_4.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_wux/x1985_4.tif.jpg)
Charles Gifford Dyer
Venice
1895![2183.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2183.tif.jpg)
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Venetian Sails: A Study
1873![2077.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2077.tif.jpg)
Adolf Schreyer
Arab Warriors
c. 1870s![2177.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2177.tif.jpg)
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Brocart de Venise (Venetian Brocade)
c. 1904–5![2271.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2271.jpg)
James McNeill Whistler
Nocturne: Palaces, from A Set of Twenty-Six Etchings (Second Venice Set)
1879/1880, published 1886![1989_1.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1989_1.jpg)
Utagawa Ichiryusai Hiroshige
Yamashita-Cho, Hibaya, Soto Sakurada, from Meisho Edo
1857![1454.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/1454.jpg)
Fujiwara Tadajo
Sword and Sheath
1864![1058.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/1058.jpg)
Satsuma Ware
Bowl
n.d.![248.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/248.jpg)
Kutani Ware
Plate
n.d.![3763.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3763.jpg)
Unknown (Japanese)
Box with Masks
n.d.![3053.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3053.jpg)
Unknown (Japanese)
Inro
n.d.![1134.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/1134.jpg)
Unknown (Japanese)
Netsuke
n.d.![4361.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4361.jpg)
Joseph Pennell
Cajella Cut, from the portfolio Building of the Panama Canal
1912![453.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/453.tif.jpg)
Joseph Pennell
West Front, Rouen Cathedral
1907![470.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/470.tif.jpg)
Joseph Pennell
West Door, St. Paul's
1903Online Exhibition
Teaching Gallery
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