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American Scene Painting


American Scene Painting
Term used to describe scenes of typical American life painted in a naturalistic vein from c. 1920 until the early 1940s. It applies to both Regionalism and Social Realism in American painting, but its specific boundaries remain ambiguous. The phrase probably derived from Henry James’s collection of essays and impressions, The American Scene (1907), published upon James’s own rediscovery of his native land after 21 years as an expatriate. The term entered the vocabulary of ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with American Scene Painting — 17 artists:

Thomas Hart Benton
Isabel Bishop
Charles Ephraim Burchfield
Marvin Cone
William Gropper
Edward Hopper
Joe Jones
Jack Levine
Martin Lewis

Dale William Nichols
Ben Shahn
Clyde J Singer
Isaac Soyer
Moses Soyer
Raphael Soyer
Grant Wood
Hale Aspacio Woodruff

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