The Great American Hall of Wonders

The Great American Hall of Wonders was an exhibition and catalog organized in 2011 by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibit explored a number of themes pertinent to 19th century United States: clocks, Niagara Falls, guns, buffalos, railroads, and "big trees." Works displayed included patent illustrations, advertisements, and artworks.

List of artists
Among the artists, illustrators, photographers and inventors exhibited:


 * John James Audubon
 * John James Barralet
 * Albert Bierstadt
 * Richard Norris Brooke
 * George Catlin
 * Frederic Edwin Church
 * James Goodwyn Clonney
 * Thomas Cole
 * Jasper Francis Cropsey
 * Currier and Ives
 * Ferdinand Danton Jr.
 * Felix Octavius Carr Darley
 * Joseph H. Davis
 * Charles Deas
 * Thomas Doughty
 * Robert S. Duncanson
 * Asher B. Durand
 * Thomas Eakins
 * Francis William Edmonds
 * John Whetton Ehninger
 * Alvan Fisher
 * James Gardner
 * Ernest Griset
 * William Michael Harnett
 * Robert Havell
 * Martin Johnson Heade
 * Thomas Hill
 * Winslow Homer
 * Daniel Huntington
 * George Inness
 * Augustus Koch
 * John Lewis Krimmel
 * Arthur Lumley
 * Thomas Moran
 * Samuel Finley Breese Morse
 * William Sidney Mount
 * Eadweard Muybridge
 * Thomas Nast
 * William Notman
 * Bass Otis
 * Charles Willson Peale
 * Raphaelle Peale
 * Henry Cheever Pratt
 * William Ranney
 * John Rapkin
 * Andrew Joseph Russell
 * F.L. Seitz
 * Lilly Martin Spencer
 * John Mix Stanley
 * Eli Terry
 * John Trumbull
 * Elihu Vedder
 * Carleton Watkins
 * Alexander Wilson
 * Henry Worrall
 * Thomas Worth