Looks at major themes and issues in painting, sculpture, and to a lesser extent printmaking and photography in the United States over two centuries. Among the topics considered will be the course of various genres (such as portraiture, landscape, and figure painting); the relationship between art, gender, and race; the development of the art market and criticism; the relationship of American art to that produced in Canada, England, and continental Europe; and the experience and achievement of such well-known artists as Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt and Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis. Our approaches to this material, amplified with assigned readings, will include personal stylistic, and psychoanalytic. Classes will combine lecture and discussion; there will be three papers and two exams.