Ep.7 Art in The Gilded Age

Episode Transcript

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Vanderbilt Mantelpiece, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, c.1881-83, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a personal image and I've managed to catch someone standing next to it for scale.

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The Dancing Class, Edgar Degas, c.1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, Claude Monet, 1875, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)

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The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, Edgar Degas, cast in 1922, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Dance Class, Edgar Degas, 1874, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Forest of Fontainebleau, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1834, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)

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The Skater (Portrait of William Grant), 1782, Gilbert Stuart, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)

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Song of the Angels, William-Adolphe Bouguerea, 1881, Forest Lawn Museum

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Among the Sierra Nevada, California, Albert Bierstadt, 1868, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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The Lackawanna Valley, George Inness, c.1856, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)

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Portrait of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, John Singer Sargent, 1892, Scottish National Gallery

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Madame X by Sargent

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The Love Letter, François Boucher, 1750, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)

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Helpful Resources

Crain, Ester. The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2016.

Cowles, Virginia. The Astors. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1979.

Websites

Lyall, Sarah. “‘The Gilded Age’: What is Fact and What is Fiction?”, The New York Times, February 23, 2022. [Link]

The Gilded Age [Link]

J.P. Morgan [Link]

The Morgan Library & Museum [Link]  

Cornelius Vanderbilt [Link]

William Henry Vanderbilt [Link]

Henry Osborne Havemeyer [Link]

Andrew Mellon [Link]

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