Module 7 Chapter 7

Each essay response should be at least 125 words in length.

1. Compare the educational projects of Samuel F. B. Morse, Charles Willson Peale, and Rufus Porter, looking at their intended audiences and their beliefs about arts place in the newly emerging American Republic.
2. Describe the contradictory responses photography aroused when it first appeared in the 1840s. How does the American Studies scholar Alan Trachtenberg summarize these responses in his comparison of Charles Willson Peales The Artist in His Museum (1822) [2.7.3] and Matthew B. Bradys Samuel F. B. Morse (c. 1845) [2.7.17].

(Left) Gilbert Stuart: George Washington (the Lansdowne Portrait), 1796. Oil on canvas, 96 x 60 in. [2.5.10]

(Right) John Verelst, Tee Ree Neem Ho Ga Row, 1710. Oil on canvas, 36 x 25 12 in. [1.4.30]

textbook: Framing America: A Social History of American Art, Volume 1 c. 200BCE-1900, 5th edition

Author: Frances K. Pohl