Episodes named after American paintings
I noticed the episode titles are also the titles of well-known American paintings.
Episode 1: Arrangement in Grey and Black: This is the title Whistler gave to his painting of his mother.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler%27s_Mother
Episode 2: Jack-in-the-Pulpit: Georgia O'Keefe painted a series of 6 canvases depicting the flower Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Here are links to the second and fourth:
http://broadstrokes.org/2012/02/16/georgia-okeeffes-jack-in-pulpit-no-2-on-view-now-at-nmwa/
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/20centpa/20centpa-70179.html
Episode 3: Nighthawks: Nighthawks is the title of the famous Edward Hopper painting of a late-night diner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks
Episode 4: Christina's World: well-known painting by Andrew Wyeth of his neighbor crawling across a field.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%27s_World
Episode 5: The Artist in His Museum: a self-portrait by Charles Willson Peale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist_in_His_Museum
Episode 6: The Chess Players: a painting by Thomas Eakins of his father watching a chess game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chess_Players_(Eakins_painting)
Episode 7: The Gross Clinic: a painting by Thomas Eakins that depicts surgeon Dr. Samuel Gross operating on a patients thigh.
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/299524.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gross_Clinic
Episode 8:Kindred Spirits: a painting by Asher B. Durand of a gorge in the Catskill Mountains with his friend painter Thomas Cole and Cole's friend, the poet William Cullen Bryant standing on a promontory above it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/design/30dura.html?_r=0
http://crystalbridges.org/blog/asher-b-durands-kindred-spirits/
The title of the painting is from the Keats poem "O Solitude!"
http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/works/works-john-keats/john-keats-o-solitude
Episode 9: The Oxbow: also called View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm In the lower center between two rocks the artist is shown sketching in a top hat.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10497
For a detail of the part with Cole's self portrait try this site and scroll down about 2/3 of the page.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/us-art-19c/romanticism-us/a/cole-the-oxbow
Episode 10: The Veteran in a New Field a painting by Winslow Homer of a Union Civil War soldier harvesting wheat, his uniform jacket and canteen are lying on the ground.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11145
https://edsitement.neh.gov/winslow-homer-veteran-new-field
Episode 11: Freedom From Fear: a painting by Norman Rockwell of two children resting in their bed with their parents standing over them. The father holds a newspaper with headlines about the Blitz in WWII. This was the last painting in a series of four("The Four Freedoms")
http://www.nrm.org/2016/08/four-freedoms-grades-6-12/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_from_Fear_(painting)
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/01/01/art-entertainment/norman-rockwell-art-entertainment/rockwells-four-freedoms.html
Episode 12: Madame X a portrait by John Singer Sargent of a socialite in Paris. This painting scandalized the Paris Salon of 1884 so he repainted the shoulder strap from falling off her shoulder to its present position.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12127
with the strap down:
http://www.jssgallery.org/paintings/Madame_X_Studies/Photo_of_Madame_X.htm
Episode 13: Whistler's Mother I guess we are back to the beginning with Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1.
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/index.php?id=851&L=1&tx_commentaire_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=445&no_cache=1
Note: Episodes 12 and 13 are being shown together in a two-hour block on Sept. 7 at 9pm(Eastern time).
I guess it makes sense since the series title is also the title of a painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic