Cosmopolitanism and the Gilded Age

The Weaver, 1889
Object-George de Forest Brush, The Weaver
George de Forest Brush studied in Paris with the French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), who impressed upon the young American the importance of an exacting technique, careful anatomical modeling, and the pursuit of exotic subject matter. After returning to the United States in 1880, Brush studied the Arapahoe and Shoshone in Wyoming, the Crow in Montana, the Sioux in the Dakotas, and the Apache in Florida, sketching the tribe members and collecting artifacts. Unconcerned with ethnographical accuracy, Brush created romanticized pastiches of Native American life. In The Weaver, an indigenous man weaves a Navajo rug on an upright loom in an earthen-walled setting suggestive of Pueblo culture. Brush likely painted this work in his New York studio, using as props various objects from his collection. Brush’s weaver represents two purportedly “vanishing races”: the Native American and the craftsman, a rapidly disappearing figure in late-nineteenth-century America’s increasingly industrialized workplace.
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The Weaver, 1889
Cosmopolitanism and the Gilded Age

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In the Orchard, 1891

Summertime, 1894

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Breton Girl with a Basket, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877

Girl on the Beach, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877

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Note in Red: The Siesta, by 1884

From Shore to Shore, 1885

The Weaver, 1889

Brook, Giverny, 1887

On the Veranda, 1887

Lotus Lilies, 1888

Brittany Town Morning, Larmor, 1884

Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot, 1888

Spring Flowers (Peonies), by 1889

Horse Drawn Cabs at Evening, New York, c. 1890

Garden at Giverny (In Monet's Garden), c. 1887–91

Giverny Hillside, c. 1890–91

Horticulture Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

Blossoms at Giverny, 1891–92

Self-Portrait, c. 1889–96

Les Invalides, Paris, 1896

Winter Landscape, c. 1890–1900

Havana Harbor, 1902

Portrait of Thomas J. Eagan, 1907

Portrait of a Lady Holding a Rose, 1912

Lady in a Garden, c. 1912