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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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
American Regionalism canonical	18
American Scene Painting	6
American realism	4
American Regionalist painters	2
American literary regionalism	2
American Realism	1
American Regionalist style	1
American local color movement	1
American regionalist literature	1
Midwestern 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 (37)

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American Gothic → genre → American Regionalism ⓘ

Regionalism → genre → American Regionalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Regionalism (art movement)

this entity surface form: American Scene Painting

Regionalism → partOf → American Regionalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Regionalism (art movement)

this entity surface form: American Scene Painting

Grant Wood → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

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

Local color writing → relatedTo → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary regionalism

The Storm → literaryMovement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Sarah Orne Jewett → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary regionalism

The Song of the Lark → literaryMovement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Max Schmitt in a Single Scull → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Ashcan School → influenced → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Scene Painting

“Hotel Room” by Edward Hopper → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Hotel Room

this entity surface form: American Scene Painting

Daughters of Revolution → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

Woman with Plants → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

Young Corn → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

Fall Plowing → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Grant Wood

Parson Weems' Fable → artStyle → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Regionalist style

Midnight Ride of Paul Revere → genre → American Regionalism ⓘ

Death on the Ridge Road → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

The Appraisal → genre → American Regionalism ⓘ

Spring in Town → genre → American Regionalism ⓘ

Spring in the Country → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

Early Sunday Morning → genre → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Room in New York → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Scene Painting

A Social History of the State of Missouri → literaryMovement → American Regionalism ⓘ

Baptism in Kansas → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

The Midnight Alarm → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Grant Wood

Thomas Hart Benton → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Scene Painting

Thomas Hart Benton → influenced → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Regionalist painters

John Steuart Curry → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

Stone City, Iowa → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

Freedom from Want → movement → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Hoosier Poet → partOf → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American regionalist literature

Hamlin Garland → influenced → American Regionalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Midwestern realism