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  1. American Realism. American Realism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century.

  2. American Social Realism. Overlapping with Regionalism, was the urban American Social Realist movement. It was in fact a global movement that was particularly prevalent in Communist and/or Socialist countries (such as the Russia, China, and Mexico) where state sponsored art was used to the ends of state propaganda.

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  4. American Realism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century.

    • Robert Henri, American, 1865 - 1929, Catharine, 1913, oil on canvas, Given in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Johnson, 1948.7.1.
    • Robert Henri, American, 1865 - 1929, Snow in New York, 1902, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1954.4.3.
    • George Bellows, American, 1882 - 1925, Both Members of This Club, 1909, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1944.13.1.
    • George Bellows, American, 1882 - 1925, The Lone Tenement, 1909, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.83.
  5. Grant Wood, American Gothi c, 1930. In the early 20th century, American Realism became an important movement in the United States, spanning literature, music, and the visual arts. As the United States rapidly developed during the late 19th and early 20th century, with great industrial, economic, and socio-cultural changes, the wish to capture ...

  6. Mar 30, 2017 · Introduction. This guide highlights online and print resources on American Realist art, a style of art from the 19th century to the early 20th century that depicted scenes of everyday life. The "Books" page offers lists of art criticism sources and biographies on such artists as William Glackens, George Bellows, Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper ...

  7. 1900 - 1930. In the USA Realism engaged such major painters of the second half of the 19th century as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins (e.g. the Gross Clinic, 1875; Philadelphia, PA, Thomas Jefferson U., Medic. Col.) and John Singer Sargent, all of whom used their European experience to import fashionable influence to the USA.

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