Grant painted it in 1930. It truly is one of his master pieces. “American Gothic” depicts a farmer and his spinster daughter posing before their house. The gabled window and decoration, in the American gothic style, inspired the painting's title. In fact, the models were the painter's sister and their dentist.
In 1907 she attended the Art Students League in New York. In 1908 she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Mona Shehab. In the fall of 1908, she abandoned the idea of pursuing a career as an artist. She said that she could never distinguish herself as an artist within the mimetic tradition, which was what she was training. She then took a job in Chicago as a commercial artist.
When describing their journey through the mountains, she even adds dialogue to her canine, Jackson’s proceedings. For example, she explains Jackson’s attitude, ‘That morning he was impatient with me. “Miles to go, Mom,” he said over his shoulder’ (279). Her explanations of her animals are quite humorous at times. The woman even made her dogs peanut butter and honey sandwiches, and let them sleep inside her bivvy sack.
She was very private about her pregnancies. Before giving birth, she would say to Bessie and Sadie, “Now take the little ones…and don’t come back all day.” After the death of her husband Henry in 1928, Mama moved to New York with her daughters Sadie and Bessie. Bessie retired in 1950 in order to care for Mama, now frail but “still full of spunk, right up to the end” (Delany, Hearth 255). Mama died on June 2nd, 1956 at the age of 95. To partly get over Mama’s death, the daughters bought a house in Mount Vernon, New York, where they would spend their days honoring her
In the story by Alice Walker, “Everyday Use", the mother, Mrs. Johnson, is telling the story of the day her daughter, Dee, came home from college to visit with her and her younger daughter, Maggie. The sisters both want a family heirloom that their grandmother made, a quilt, but both have different ideas about what the heritage means. At the beginning of the story, Mrs. Johnson explains how Maggie and her prepared for the arrival of Dee, they cleaned up the yard like it was part of their living room. She describes herself as large, uneducated, and with manly-type hands. Maggie was burned in a fire when their first house burned to the ground and Mrs. Johnson begins to thinks back about that day, she can’t help but feel that Dee had something
Leigh Montgomery 5/15/12 HA 314 I chose the Brooklyn Museum for my assignment since I had never been there and I was excited to visit. We walked into the American Identities, A New Look, and Making Art: Centennial Era, exhibit and I was surprised, Yes, it is not the Met but as I walked around the gallery I found myself drawn in by many of the paintings. I particularly liked three, one being The Repimand, Ah! You naughty Fawn, You Have Been Eating the Flowers Again, by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, the second In The Mountains, by Winslow Homer, and the third Lake George, 1857, by John William Casilear. The Reprimand.
Cassatt would send paintings back to the United States to be exhibited and her works were some of the first impressionists paintings seen in the US. Mary Cassatt remained in France and helped teach others who were interested in the art of Impressionism. She developed diabetes which took her vision from her slowly. She later suffered from ill health and was totally blind at her death in France on June 4th, 1926. I chose to write about Mary Cassatt’s works of art because I like the balance and colors in her paintings.
old in the first-person perspective as a series of journal entries, the story details the unreliable narrator's descent into madness. The protagonist's husband, John, believes that it is in the narrator's best interest to go on a rest cure after the birth of their child. She may be suffering from what would now be called postpartum psychosis. The family goes to spend the summer at a colonial mansion that has, in the narrator's words, "something queer about it." She is confined to an upstairs room that she assumes was once a nursery, as the windows are barred, the wallpaper has been torn, and the floor is scratched.
John Goldwire Ms. Jennifer Santi Literature 1b 10 September 2011 A Rose for Emily In A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner utilizes diction to portray the house as Miss Emily. The main character Miss Emily Grierson once had the best house in the neighborhood, and she was known as a mentor like figure, giving china painting lessons, and her father giving money to the town back when he was alive made Miss Emily and himself well known, and liked in the town. As years went on she became an outcast and an eyesore to the neighborhood, along with her house. In the opening paragraph Faulkner describes what Miss Emily Grierson’s impact on the neighborhood and the people in it. “…our whole town went to her funeral: them men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument-“.
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator starts off the story talking about the great summer house that they rented, which she was curious about how the price was so affordable. She then goes on to talk about her nervous illness, which was the reason that her husband, John, had rented the house out in the first place. The narrator then gets obsessed with the musky yellow wallpaper in the nursery which is the