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Realism in Twentieth-Century American Painting

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 photo-realism.

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

(60 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10359
Copyright date: ©1991
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-0168-6

Part of the Series : Masterworks of Western Art


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