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American Scene Painting
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Description of American Scene Painting
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About American Scene Painting
Description of 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
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