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| Note created | Feb 13, 2026 |
A realist art movement that flourished in the United States during the 1920s–1940s, celebrating rural American life and landscapes, particularly of the Midwest. Key figures include Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton—whose sweeping mural America Today captures the energy of American life—and John Steuart Curry, whose John Brown dramatizes a pivotal figure in American history. It succeeded American Realism and consciously rejected European Modernism and abstraction in favor of accessible, narrative scenes of American identity.