American Regionalism

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American art movement art movement

American Regionalism is a late-19th- and early-20th-century U.S. art movement that depicted rural life and local landscapes in a realistic, often nostalgic style, emphasizing distinctly American subjects and settings.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
American Scene Painting	2
American literary regionalism	2
American Regionalist painters	1
American local color movement	1
American realism	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American art movement ⓘ art movement ⓘ
artForm	mural painting ⓘ painting ⓘ printmaking ⓘ
artisticStyle	realism ⓘ representational art ⓘ
characteristic	clear figurative representation ⓘ focus on national themes ⓘ narrative content ⓘ nostalgic tone ⓘ rejection of European avant-garde abstraction ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
emphasis	distinctly American settings ⓘ distinctly American subjects ⓘ local character ⓘ regional identity ⓘ
geographicFocus	Great Plains ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ rural South ⓘ
goal	to celebrate regional cultures of the United States ⓘ to create a distinctly American art ⓘ
historicalContext	Great Depression ⓘ surface form: Great Depression era interwar period in the United States ⓘ
influenced	later depictions of the American heartland ⓘ mid-20th-century American illustration ⓘ
influencedBy	19th-century American landscape painting ⓘ American folk art ⓘ Realism ⓘ
movementPeriod	early 20th century ⓘ late 19th century ⓘ
notableArtist	Grant Wood ⓘ John Steuart Curry ⓘ Thomas Hart Benton ⓘ
notableWork	A Social History of the State of Missouri ⓘ American Gothic ⓘ Baptism in Kansas ⓘ
reactionTo	European modernism ⓘ industrialization ⓘ urbanization ⓘ
relatedMovement	Ashcan School ⓘ Precisionism ⓘ Social realism ⓘ surface form: Social Realism
typicalSubject	Midwestern scenes ⓘ agricultural scenes ⓘ everyday American life ⓘ local landscapes ⓘ rural life ⓘ small-town life ⓘ working-class Americans ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

American Gothic → genre → American Regionalism ⓘ

Regionalism → genre → American Regionalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Regionalism (art movement)

this entity surface form: American Scene Painting

Grant Wood → influenced → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Regionalist painters

Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories → literaryMovement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American local color movement

The Storm → literaryMovement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Grant Wood → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

Sarah Orne Jewett → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary regionalism

Regionalism → partOf → American Regionalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Regionalism (art movement)

this entity surface form: American Scene Painting

Local color writing → relatedTo → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary regionalism