United States

18C-19C: Early American, Neoclassicism

• COPLEY John Singleton
  • Watson and the Shark (1778)
  • Paul Revere (1768)
• STUART Gilbert
  • Portrait of George Washington (1796)
  • Athenaeum Portrait (1796)

19C: Romanticism, Realism

• BINGHAM George Caleb
  • Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845)
  • The County Election (1852)
• EAKINS Thomas
  • The Gross Clinic (1875)
  • The Agnew Clinic (1889)
• HOMER Winslow
  • The Gulf Stream (1899)
  • Snap the Whip (1872)

19C-20C: Impressionism, Ashcan School

• CHASE William Merritt
  • The Open Air Breakfast (1888)
  • Idle Hours (1894)
• HENRI Robert
  • Snow in New York (1902)
  • The Laughing Child (1907)

20C: Modernism

• HOPPER Edward
  • Nighthawks (1942)
  • Automat (1927)
  • Early Sunday Morning (1930)
• O’KEEFFE Georgia
  • Jimson Weed (1936)
  • Black Iris III (1926)
  • Red Canna (1924)

20C: Abstract Expressionism

• DE KOONING Willem
  • Woman I (1952)
  • Excavation (1950)
• POLLOCK Jackson
  • No. 5, 1948 (1948)
  • Autumn Rhythm (1950)
  • Blue Poles (1952)
• ROTHKO Mark
  • No. 61 (1953)
  • Orange and Yellow (1956)
  • White Center (1950)

20C-21C: Contemporary

• BASQUIAT Jean-Michel
  • Untitled (1982)
  • Hollywood Africans (1983)
• WARHOL Andy
  • Marilyn Diptych (1962)
  • Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962)
  • Eight Elvises (1963)

19C: Early American

• GOTTSCHALK Louis Moreau
  • The Banjo (1854)
  • Bamboula (1848)

20C: Modernism

• COPLAND Aaron
  • Appalachian Spring (1944)
  • Rodeo (1942)
  • Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
• GERSHWIN George
  • Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
  • An American in Paris (1928)
  • Porgy and Bess (1935)
• IVES Charles
  • The Unanswered Question (1908)
  • Three Places in New England (1914)

20C: Avant-Garde

• CAGE John
  • 4’33” (1952)
  • Sonatas and Interludes (1948)

20C-21C: Minimalism, Contemporary

• GLASS Philip
  • Einstein on the Beach (1976)
  • Glassworks (1982)
• REICH Steve
  • Music for 18 Musicians (1976)
  • Different Trains (1988)

American

• ADAMS John
• FRANKLIN Benjamin
• JEFFERSON Thomas
  • Notes on the State of Virginia
• HAMILTON Alexander, JAY John, MADISON James
  • The Federalist Papers (1788)
• MELVILLE Herman
  • Moby Dick (1851)
• ALCOTT Louisa May
  • Little Women (1868)
• JAMES Henry
  • Daisy Miller (1878)
  • The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
  • The Turn of the Screw (1898)
• HAWTHORNE Nathaniel
  • The Scarlet Letter (1850)
• TAWIN Mark
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
  • A Tramp Abroad (1880)
  • The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
• LONDON Jack
  • White Fang (1906)
• WHARTON Edith
  • The Age of Innocence (1920)
• FITZGERALD F. Scott
  • This Side of Paradise (1920)
  • Tales from the Jazz Age Stories (1922)
  • The Great Gatsby (1925)
• HEMINGWAY Ernest
  • The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
• STEINBECK John
  • Of Mice and Men (1937)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
  • The Pearl (1947)
  • East of Eden (1952)
• FAULKNER William
  • As I Lay Dying (1930)
  • The Wild Palms (1939)
• HUXLEY Aldous
  • Brave New World (1932)
• CAIN James M.
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
• MITCHELL Margaret
  • Gone with the Wind (1936)
• SMITH Betty
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)
• WILLIAMS Tennessee
  • 욕망이라는 이름의 전차 (1947)
• MILLER Arthur
  • Death of a Salesman (1949)
• ARENDT Hannah
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
  • The Human Condition (1958)
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)
  • On Revolution (1963)
• SALINGER J. D.
  • The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
• BRADBURY Ray
  • Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
• O’NEILL Eugene
  • Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956)
• BELLOW Saul
  • Seize the Day (1956)
• MILLS C. Wright
  • The Power Elite (1956)
  • The Sociological Imagination (1959)
• MARTH John
  • The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
• HELLER Joseph
  • Catch-22 (1961)
• KESEY Ken
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
• PLATH Sylvia
  • The Bell Jar (1963)
• PYNCHON Thomas
  • The Crying of Lot 49 (1965)
• MAILER Norman
  • The Armies of the Night (1968)
• BACH Richard
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
• RAWLS John | philosophy
  • A Theory of Justice (1971)
• STYRON William
  • Sophie’s Choice (1979)
• LOWRY Louis
  • The Giver (1993)
• SACHAR Louis
  • Holes (1998)
• DAHL Robert A.
  • On Democracy (1998)

African American

• BALDWIN Janes
  • Giovanni’s Room (1956)
• DU BOIS W.E.B.
  • The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
• HUGHES Langston
  • Not Without Laughter (1930)
• WRIGHT Richard
  • Native Son (1940)
  • Black Boy (1945)
• ELLISON Ralph
  • Invisible Man (1952)
• HANSBERRY Lorraine
  • A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
• KING Martin Luther Jr.
  • Why We Can’t Wait (1964)
• ANGELOU Maya
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
  • The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994)
• WALKER Alice
  • Once: Poems (1963)
  • The Third Life of Grage Copeland (1970)
  • The Color Purple (1982)
• MORRISON Toni
  • The Bluest Eye (1970)
  • Sula (1973)
  • Song of Solomon (1977)
  • Beloved (1987)

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