American 19-20th Century Genre Scenes

• A Good and Gracious Man; essay by Brett Busang (2/17/12)
• The Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany: Works from a Long Island Collection; Introduction by Karl Emil Willers (12/21/11)
• The Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany: Works from a Long Island Collection (12/17/11)
• Mundane and Sublime: Wash Day Images from the Johnson Collection; essay by Lauren Brunk (11/23/07)
• American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America (9/22/06)
• American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America (9/22/06)
• Striking the Right Notes: Music in American Art (11/3/05)
• If Elected I Will Serve: Election Images from the Permanent Collection; essay by Marjorie Searl (10/11/04)
• Tales from the Easel: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, circa 1800-1950 (6/1/04)
• Currents of Change: Art and Life along the Mississippi River, 1850-1861 (5/12/04)
• Tales from the Easel: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, circa 1800-1950 (9/26/03)
• Edward Lamson Henry, 1841-1919 The Peddler, 1879; essay by William T. Oedel (1/14/02)
• John George Brown, 1831-1913, The Berry Boy, c. 1877, Crossing the Brook, 1874; essay by Martha Hoppin (12/29/01)
• Paintings of Native America from the Stark Museum of Art (12/03/01)
• Tell Me a Story - Chapter 2: Narrative Art of the Cape and Islands (7/27/01)
• Americans Outdoors: Seasonal Prints by Winslow Homer (with selected wall text) (7/5/01)
• Baseball Art from the Gladstone Collection (5/7/01)
• Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art (2/27/01)
• A Printmaker in Paradise: The Life and Art of Charles W. Bartlett (2/8/01)
• A Bountiful Plenty: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum (1/27/01)
• Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art (11/22/00)
• Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 (11/15/00)
• Painters and the American West (10/17/00)
• Our Backyard: History and Memory in American Folk Art (10/15/00)
• Eye of The Storm: The Civil War Drawings of Robert Knox Sneden (10/2/00)
• Inside and Out: Scenes of American Life from the Addison Collection (9/24/00)
• The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality (9/23/00)
• Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (8/21/00)
• The Works of Joseph Henry Sharp (8/1/00)
• Winslow Homer: An American Genius at the Parthenon (7/25/00)
• How the West Was Drawn (7/18/00)
• Unending Frontier: Art of the West (7/16/00)
• Parks and Promenades: Maurice Prendergast in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (6/12/00)
• Remington and Russell: Masterpieces of the American West from the Amon Carter Museum (5/23/00)
• Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 (4/18/00)
• Andrew Lenaghan: New Paintings / Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years (3/14/00)
• The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality (3/11/00)
• Winslow Homer Facing Nature (2/20/00)
• Work and Progress (1/21/00)
• The Phelan Collection of Western Art (1/14/00)
• The Ralph K. Davies Collection of Western Art at the Monterey Museum of Art (12/17/99)
• Winslow Homer (1836-1910) (10/7/99)
• Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966 (9/16/99)
• Visions of Home: American Impressionist Images of Suburban Leisure and Country Comfort (7/11/99)
• 14th annual C.M. Russell Museum Benefit (7/12/99)
• America Seen: People and Place (2/2/99)
• The Latino Spirit: Hispanic Icons and Images (10/27/98)
• Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America (9/1/98)
• Friendly Persuasions: Folk Art from the Collection of The Chase Manhattan Bank
• Visual History of the Art of Fly Fishing
• Animal as Muse (4/14/98)
• Fair and Free: Images of Childhood, 1824-1992 (11/21/97)

Genre paintings are scenes from everyday life. The National Gallery of Art explains genre scenes in their Exploring Themes in American Art series.

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