Art
Father of American painting was Benjamin West, English ... portraits of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison by Charles Gilbert Stuart, Scot ... “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” by Emmanuel Lutze, German ... famous portraits by John Copley, Irish ... famous etchings by Joseph Pennell, English-Irish ... “Artist’s Mother” by James McNeil Whistler, Scotch-Irish.
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” by Malvin Johnson, Negro ... “Return of Prodigal Son” by Henry Mosler, German Jew ... “Gassed” and portraits by John S. Sargent, English-Italian ... “Autumn Oaks” by George Inness, Scot ... “Conquerors”—building of Panama Canal—by Jonas Lie, Norwegian ... “Resurrection of Lazarus” by Henry O. Tanner, Negro ... “Still Life” by Yasu Kuniyoshi, Japanese.
First modernist in America was Arthur Davies, Welsh ... corrupt Tweed ring in New York City smashed by cartoons of Thomas Nast, German ... leader in landscape painting, Frederick Detwiller, Swiss ... master of miniatures, Malthe Hasselriis, Dane ... famous frescoes in National Capitol by Brumidi, Italian ... illustrator of folk tales and fairy stories, Willie Pogany, Hungarian ... journalistic cartoons by Harrison Fisher, Czech.
Sculpture
“Puritan,” “Shaw Memorial,” and other statues by Saint-Gaudens, Irish-French ... “Memory” and “Lincoln” statues by Daniel Chester French, English ... work on Stone Mountain, Georgia, and Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota by Gutzon Borglum, Dane ... “Pioneer Mother” at Kansas City by Phimester Proctor, Canadian ... “The Sower” on the Nebraska State Capitol by Lee Lawrie, German ... statues of Indians by Ivan Mestrovic, Yugoslav ... McKinley monument by Haig Patigian, Armenian.
Italian sculptors who helped adorn National Capitol were: Franzoni, bronze clock with statue of Storia on top ... Valperti, emblematic eagle ... Amateis, bronze doors ... Causici, Statue of Liberty Proclaiming Peace ... Trentanove, “Pere Marquette” statue ... Vincenti, Indian chief, Be-she-ke.
Architecture
