art work labels

• Catalogue entry for each art work: max 250 words, scholarly audience.

• Object Extended labels (pick one): max 100 words, general audience.choose the third one “The Oxbow”. mention hudson river school art movement.

George Kendall Warren, From Trophy Point, West Point, Hudson River, c. 1867– 1868, albumen print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Robert Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

source: https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2017/east-of-the-

mississippi.html

https://hyperallergic.com/383622/east-of-the-mississippi- nineteenth-century-american-landscape-photography- national-gallery-washington-dc-2017/

Hermann Fuechsel (1833–1915) Hudson River Above West Point

https://www.questroyalfineart.com/hudson-river-above- west-point/

Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (1836), oil on canvas, 130.8x 193 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/ later-europe-and-americas/enlightenment-revolution/a/ cole-the-oxbow

what was the hudson river school art movement? https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-was-the-hudson-

river-school-art-movement.html

Example of Catalogue Entry http://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obriene/art116/readings/

writing%20an%20entry%20in%20an%20exhibition %20catalog.pdf

>>I found this link helpful, specifically the bullet points on page 154 as well as the sample entry starting on page 156

Niagara (1855) Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900) Oil on canvas H. 40 x W. 90 ½ in. (101.6 x 229.9 cm) National Gallery of Art

Niagara Falls was and continues to be a landmark in America, and a wonder unlike any other. Since its discovery in an 1678 expedition by European, Louis Hennepin, the falls have been an example of what artists called, the sublime. The sublime is a term that is defined by “...experiences that go beyond the everyday, that inspire awe, that involve a sense of grandeur, that elevate one’s thoughts and feelings and that exceed the capacity of human descriptive powers” (Dickens, 69). Niagara Falls became a symbol of spiritual majesty.

Frederic E. Church was highly influenced by the Hudson River School, an institution of the time period that produced a generation of artists with an identifiable style. He incorporated stylistic ideas from the school that can be seen when one looks over the panoramic view of the painting as well as its idealized and enhanced characteristics.

Church’s Niagara is a detailed example of what the American landscape had to offer to the rest of the world. It creation is crucial

Example of Object Extended Labels:

Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900) Niagara, (1855) Oil on canvas (40 x 90 ½ In.) Niagara is one of Frederic E. Church’s paintings of the raw wonders of American

landscape. In 1855, he experienced the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and created sketches that were later transformed into one of his most well-known panoramic paintings. This viewpoint of Niagara Falls is uncommon because he chose to take away the foreground, placing the viewer at the edge of the water. Church also kept to traditional techniques specifically attributed to the styles produced by the Hudson River School, like realism based on observation seen in Niagara. This way of landscape depiction unified painters of the natural world.