INTRODUCTION

Art education during the first 200 years of America consists largely of educating girls in the ornamental arts and boys in drawing and architecture. Furthermore, apprenticeships continue to play an important role in the development of a trade. Most art education is for utilitarian purposes. Painters and sculptors travel abroad for their educations. Formal art training is finally provided for artists in America around the turn of the 19th century when art academies are developed.

 

Timeline of Important Events:

1607 - Settlement of Jamestown, Virginia

1616 - 1619 - A 3-year pandemic known as the Great Dying decimates the native population

1620 - Mayflower Compact

1636 - Harvard College founded

1643 - New England Confederation created

1692 - Salem witch trials

1703 - 1713 - 3rd Anglo-Wabanaki War (Queen Anne's War)

1754 - The French Indian War begins

1773 - The Boston Tea Party

1776 - Declaration of Independence

1787 - Constitutional Convention

1804 - Lewis and Clark set out

1812 - The War of 1812