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John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821), America's first genre painter; Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864), painter; Sarah Goodridge (1788–1853), painter of miniatures; Matthew Harris Jouett (1788–1827), portrait artist; William Edward West (1788–1859), portrait painter; Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), sculptor and inventor; Samuel F. B. Morse (1791 ...
Ruth Bryan Leavitt, politician and the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador [100] [101] Fifi Widener Leidy, daughter of Pennsylvania art collector Joseph E. Widener and wife of New York politician George Eustis Paine [102] Lydia Lipkowska, opera singer [103] Jack London, writer [104]
Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists. Before colonization, there were many flourishing traditions of Native American art , and where the Spanish colonized Spanish Colonial architecture and the accompanying styles in other media were quickly in place.
A list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, video art, and digital art.
January 15 – Eliza McCardle Johnson, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States (born 1810) February 18 – Charlotte Cushman, actress (born 1816) April 9 – Charles Goodyear, politician (born 1804) April 23 – Archibald Dixon, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1852 to 1855 (born 1802)
February 12 – Treaty of Indian Springs: The Lower Creek Council, led by William McIntosh, cedes a large amount of Creek territory in Georgia to the United States government. March 4 – John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the sixth president of the United States, and John C. Calhoun is sworn in as the seventh vice president.
Folk art in the United States refers to the many regional types of tangible folk art created by people in the United States of America.Generally developing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when settlers revived artistic traditions from their home countries in a uniquely American way, folk art includes artworks created by and for a large majority of people.
Eastman Johnson's career as an artist began when his father apprenticed him in 1840 to a Boston lithographer. After his father's political patron, the Governor of Maine John Fairfield, entered the US Senate, the senior Johnson was appointed by US President James Polk in the late 1840s as Chief Clerk in the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair of the Navy Department.