Visual art of the United States

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Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists. Before colonization, there were many flourishing traditions of Native American art, and where the Spanish colonized, Spanish Colonial architecture and the accompanying styles in other media were quickly established. Early colonial art on the East Coast initially relied on artists from Europe, with John White the earliest example. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, artists primarily painted portraits and some landscapes in a style based mainly on English painting. Furniture makers imitating English styles and similar craftsmen were established in the major cities, but in the English colonies locally made pottery remained resolutely utilitarian until the 19th century, with fancy products imported. In the late 18th century two U.S. artists, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, became the most successful painters in London of history painting, then regarded as the highest...

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