American Art Kept alive realist tradition Portray American life with fidelity. Ashcan School or The Eight NYC Realistic sketch like subjects urban grit and vigor condemned due to low-life subjects 1 st unique American Art vibrant with energy American Scene drips of Apple Pie
John Sloan Haymarket 1907
Marin Lower Manhattan 1922 (Composition Derived from Top of the Woolworth Building)
George Bellows Stag at Sharkey’s 1909
Thomas Hart Benton Steel 1930
Grant Wood American Gothic 1930
Edward Hopper Nighthawks 1942
Mount Rushmore
Romare Bearden The Woodshed 1970