Choose eight paintings by American artists from the period 1700–1860. Suggested works include:

• John J. Audubon – Birds of America series

• Thomas Cole – Distant View of Niagara Falls; Home in the Woods

• Jonathan Singleton Copley – Paul Revere

• Robert Scott Duncanson – Uncle Tom and Little Eva

• Edward Hicks – The Peaceable Kingdom

• Emanuel Leutze – Washington Crossing the Delaware

• Charles Willson Peale – Joseph Brant; Exhuming the First American Mastodon

• Peter F. Rothermel – Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses

• Gilbert Stuart – George Washington

• Edward Savage – Congress Voting Independence

• John Trumbull – The Declaration of Independence; Surrender of Lord Cornwallis

• John Vanderlyn – Landing of Columbus

• Benjamin West – The Death of Ge