American Scene Painting
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American Scene Painting
Term used to describe scenes of typical American life painted in a naturalistic vein from c. 1920 until the early 1940s. It applies to both Regionalism and Social Realism in American painting, but its specific boundaries remain ambiguous. The phrase probably derived from Henry James’s collection of essays and impressions, The American Scene (1907), published upon James’s own rediscovery of his native land after 21 years as an expatriate. The term entered the vocabulary of
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