Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. The Americas
6. modern American
7. modern North American
8. [modern North American fine arts styles and movements]

Narrower term/s

• Regionalist (American Scene)

Anotations

Scope note:

Movement of American figurative painting active from the 1920s to the 1940s, committed to the establishment of a genuinely American art by the realistic depiction of contemporary American life and the repudiation of contemporary nonrealist styles introduced by the Armory Show.