American Scene Painting

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Description of American Scene Painting
Examples of American Scene Painting
American Scene Painting Artists - 21
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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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Examples of American Scene Painting at Auction

Artists Associated with American Scene Painting — 21 artists:

Thomas Hart Benton Isabel Bishop Charles Ephraim Burchfield Marvin Cone Edwin A. Gates William Gropper Edward Hopper Joe Jones Manfred H. Kuhnert Jack Levine Martin Lewis

Doris Olson Mina-Mora Dale William Nichols Ben Shahn Clyde J Singer Isaac Soyer Moses Soyer Raphael Soyer Phil Tyler Grant Wood Hale Aspacio Woodruff

Auction Houses that have sold American Scene Painting works - 257

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