__NOTOC__ ''The Great American Hall of Wonders'' was an exhibition and catalog organized in 2011 by the

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

. The exhibit explored a number of themes pertinent to 19th century United States: clocks, Niagara Falls, guns, buffalos, railroads, and " big trees." Works displayed included patent illustrations, advertisements, and artworks.

List of artists

Among the artists, illustrators, photographers and inventors exhibited:Perry. Great American Hall of Wonders. Washington DC: Smithsonian, 2011 *

John James Audubon John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictoria ...

John James Barralet John James Barralet (c. 1747 - January 16, 1815) was an Irish artist who spent the later part of his career in the United States. Life John James Barralet was born in 1747 to a French Family in Dublin. Barralet had joined two classes at The Du ...

* Albert Bierstadt * Richard Norris Brooke * George Catlin *

Frederic Edwin Church Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, ...

* James Goodwyn Clonney * Thomas Cole * Jasper Francis Cropsey * Currier and Ives * Ferdinand Danton Jr. * Felix Octavius Carr Darley * Joseph H. Davis *

Charles Deas Charles Deas (December 22, 1818 – March 23, 1867) was an American painter noted for his oil paintings of Native Americans and fur trappers of the mid-19th century. Biography Charles Deas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attempted, ...

* Thomas Doughty *

Robert S. Duncanson Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821 – December 21, 1872) was a 19th-century American landscape painting, landscapist of European and African ancestry. Inspired by famous American landscape artists like Thomas Cole, Duncanson created renowned landsca ...

* Asher B. Durand * Thomas Eakins *

Francis William Edmonds Francis William Edmonds (November 22, 1806 – February 7, 1863) was an American painter of genre subjects. He often painted in the style of 17th century Dutch painters. He kept up his painting career as well as a career in banking. Early life ...

* John Whetton Ehninger *

Alvan Fisher Alvan Fisher (August 9, 1792February 13, 1863) was one of the United States's pioneers in landscape painting and genre works. Early years He was born in Needham, Massachusetts, the fourth of Aaron and Lucy (Stedman) Fisher's six sons. He mo ...

* James Gardner *

Ernest Griset Ernest Henri Griset (born 24 August 1843 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, died in London on 22 March 1907) was a French-born painter and illustrator noted for the humorous interpretations of his subjects. Life and work Griset's parents moved to England from ...

* William Michael Harnett * Robert Havell *

Martin Johnson Heade Martin Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819 – September 4, 1904) was an American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, and depictions of tropical birds (such as hummingbirds), as well as lotus blossoms and other still lifes. His pai ...

* Thomas Hill * Winslow Homer * Daniel Huntington * George Inness * Augustus Koch * John Lewis Krimmel * Arthur Lumley * Thomas Moran * Samuel Finley Breese Morse * William Sidney Mount * Eadweard Muybridge * Thomas Nast * William Notman * Bass Otis * Charles Willson Peale * Raphaelle Peale * Henry Cheever Pratt * William Ranney * John Rapkin * Andrew Joseph Russell * F.L. Seitz * Lilly Martin Spencer * John Mix Stanley * Eli Terry * John Trumbull * Elihu Vedder * Carleton Watkins * Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Alexander Wilson * Henry Worrall (artist), Henry Worrall * Thomas Worth

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External links

Exhibit website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Great American Hall of Wonders 2011 non-fiction books History books about the United States Smithsonian Institution exhibitions Smithsonian Institution publications 2011 in Washington, D.C.

List of artists

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