Realism in 20th-Century American Painting

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Always a strong artistic current in the U.S., Realism has kept pace with the times, first as regionalism and Social Realism-which defined early modernism-and then reemerging as contemporary Photorealism. This program examines: Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930), from The Art Institute of Chicago - Georgia O'Keeffe's The White Calico Flower (1931), from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - Reginald Marsh's Twenty Cent Movie (1931), from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - Edward Hopper's Nighthawks (1942), from The Art Institute of Chicago - Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World (1948), from the Museum of Modern Art, New York - Richard Estes' Ansonia (1977), from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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