American regional painting includes artists such as Thomas Eakins and Thomas Hart Benton whose whose work reflected the unique reality of American life during the latter part of the 19th century through the early 1930s. Early American regional painting featured scenes... [more]
American regional painting includes artists such as Thomas Eakins and Thomas Hart Benton whose whose work reflected the unique reality of American life during the latter part of the 19th century through the early 1930s. Early American regional painting featured scenes memorializing frontier or homestead life while later manifestations illustrated life on the urban frontier. [show less]