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Sharitahrish portrait by  Charles Bird King (1822)

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Sharitahrish portrait by  Charles Bird King (1822)

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This is a painting of a Pawnee tribe member made in 1822 by Charles Bird King.

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The early American painters also painted portraits of Native American people.

They were fascinated by what they looked like, their culture, and how both changed from tribe to tribe.

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Thomas Cole's Painting of the Hudson River (1836)

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Thomas Cole's Painting of the Hudson River (1836)

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Cole  painted this from the top of Mt. Holyoke in Massachusetts the day after a thunderstorm.

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In many paintings from 1815 to 1827 there are landscapes. Why? That's because one day Thomas Cole took a boat up the Hudson River and was inspired by the view to paint it.

The raw, unseen view of America was so original that many painters were in awe and painted it.

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The Hudson River School was started with a movement of artists, including Thomas Cole, that created romantic landscapes. The school opened up the art world to the middle class.

Later on, in 1870, the Hudson River School funded New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Allston was a Romantic painter that lived from 1779 to 1843. Being born in South Carolina, he is known as America's first Romantic painter.

Some of his more well known pieces were “Belshazzar’s Feast”, "The Deluge", and "Elijah in the Desert."

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Romanticism is an art style were artists appeal to feelings instead of one's intellectuality.

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Elijah in the Desert by Washington Allston (1818)

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Elijah in the Desert by Washington Allston (1818)

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Allston was a Romantic painter. He tries to appeal to one's emotions ad not their intellectuality.

In this painting, the colors and setting show a barrenness and loneliness. The story behind the painting is that a profit was sent into the desert and was kept alive by crows that brought him bread and meat.

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Art is a way of expressing feeling or purpose. Most art was inspired by literature, history,  earlier art, and nature.

There were many styles in that time period, but the most popular was Romanticism.