Global Vistas: American Art and Internationalism in the Gilded Age [online only]
Summer 2020–ongoing
Teaching Gallery
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
Charles Gifford Dyer
Venice
1895
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Venetian Sails: A Study
1873
Adolf Schreyer
Arab Warriors
c. 1870s
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Brocart de Venise (Venetian Brocade)
c. 1904–5
James McNeill Whistler
Nocturne: Palaces, from A Set of Twenty-Six Etchings (Second Venice Set)
1879/1880, published 1886
James McNeill Whistler
The Garden
1886
Frank Weston Benson
Geese
1917
Utagawa Ichiryusai Hiroshige
Yamashita-Cho, Hibaya, Soto Sakurada, from Meisho Edo
1857
Fujiwara Tadajo
Sword and Sheath
1864
Satsuma Ware
Bowl
n.d.
Kutani Ware
Plate
n.d.
Unknown (Japanese)
Box with Masks
n.d.
Unknown (Japanese)
Inro
n.d.
Unknown (Japanese)
Netsuke
n.d.
Unknown (Japanese)
Netsuke
n.d.
Howard Pyle
Young Prince Reading as Tutor Looks On
n.d.
Howard Pyle
Monk Meditating
1903
Joseph Pennell
St. John's College, Oxford
c. 1890
Joseph Pennell
The End of the Day, from the portfolio Building of the Panama Canal
1912
Joseph Pennell
Cajella Cut, from the portfolio Building of the Panama Canal
1912
Joseph Pennell
The Piedro Miguel Lock, from the portfolio Building of the Panama Canal
1912
Joseph Pennell
Cranes at Miraflores Lock, from the portfolio Building of the Panama Canal
1912
Joseph Pennell
West Front, Rouen Cathedral
1907
Joseph Pennell
West Door, St. Paul's
1903Online Exhibition
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