Art History 255 - American Art and Architecture

A survey of painting, architecture, sculpture, and design from the Colonial period to the late nineteenth century, this course introduces students to period styles and building types, as well as individual painters and architects. Classes develop ways of looking at and thinking about art and objects as material expressions of American social, political, and cultural ideas. Topics will include: portraiture, colonial Boston, art and revolution, nature and nation, the West, domestic architecture, and the city of Washington. Copley, Peale, Jefferson, Stuart, Cole, and Church are some of the key figures to be studied.

Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors