37. The Gilded Age 1877-1900
Post-Civil War
Matthew Brady, Photographer
38. The Gilded Age 1877-1900
Machines replaced human labor.
Manufacturers were
always looking for a
cheaper way to make
a product.
39. The Gilded Age 1877-1900
Labor unions, such as the AFL
(American Federation of Labor) were formed.
40. The Gilded Age 1877-1900
The very rich were called “robber barons”.
41. Read more about the mansions
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42. The Gilded Age 1877-1900
It was also the age of “philanthropy”.
Andrew Carnegie called it the "Gospel of Wealth”
that endowed thousands of colleges, hospitals,
museums, academies, schools, opera houses,
public libraries, symphony orchestras, and charities.
Mellon, Carnegie, Vanderbilt
Morgan, Flagler, Rockefeller
58. Jacob August Riis
(American, born
Denmark, 1849–1914),
Street Arabs—Night
Boys in Sleeping
Quarters (Newsboys),
ca. 1880s, printed
1947, gelatin silver
print
62. "I am a most earnest well-wisher of the art students of America.
The older I grow the more and more I am convinced that a thorough and
adequate training can be found here as abroad, that the work by students
here is equal to that produced by those in Europe.” - Augustus Saint-Gaudens
69. The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog,
ca. 1884–89 Thomas Eakins
(American, 1844–1916)
Oil on canvas
70. The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), 1871
Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)
Oil on canvas
71. Diagram of the Colors Used to Paint the Portrait of Queen Victoria, ca. 1838
Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872)Brown ink and oil on paper
While in London, Sully painted a half-length portrait of the queen for the engravers Hodgson and
Greaves (now in the Wallace Collection, London). They made mezzotints for sale from the image.
Sully made this record of his palette, so as to use the same pigments for the full-length picture he
would paint once back home in Philadelphia.
72.
73. Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black:
Portrait of Théodore Duret, 1883
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
Oil on canvas
74. Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883–84
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
Oil on canvas
75. The portrait of Madame X was imitated.
Here is Isabella Stewart Gardner.
76. The Arab Jeweler, ca. 1882
Charles Sprague Pearce
(American, 1851–1914)
Oil on canvas
106. Broadway on a Rainy Day, 1859
Edward Anthony (American, 1818–1888); Henry T. Anthony (American, 1814–1884)
Albumen silver prints from glass negatives
107. Chatham Square, New York, 1853–54
Unknown Artist, American School
Daguerreotype
108. [Blind Man and His
Reader], 1840s
Unknown Artist,
American School
Daguerreotype
