18th and 19th Century Genre Scenes

• At Home in America: 19th Century Genre Painting (7/23/08)
• Karl Bodmer's Eastern Views: Celebrating Volume 1 of The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied (4/25/08)
• Shallow Creek: Thomas Hart Benton and American Waterways (3/27/08)
• George Caleb Bingham: The Making of "The County Election (2/20/08)
• William Sidney Mount: The Education of an Artist (6/28/07)
• Liberty & Justice: American Ideals Portrayed by Currier & Ives (2/3/07)
• Winslow Homer-American Illustrator (8/29/06)
• Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney (5/11/06)
• Finding Religion: American Art from the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection (12/20/05)
• Currier & Ives: An American Panorama (11/7/05)
• Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art (7/14/05)
• Winslow Homer the Illustrator: His Wood Engravings, 1857-1888 (1/22/05)
• An Artist with the Corps of Discovery: The Lewis & Clark Suite by Charles Fritz (12/1/04)
• George Catlin and His Indian Gallery (9/13/04)
• Seen But Not Heard: Images of Children from the Collection of the Boston Athenæum (9/13/04)
• Winslow Homer and the Great Forest; essay by David Tatham (7/20/04)
• Currier & Ives Prints Acquired by the Springfield Museums (5/10/04)
• Winslow Homer - The Illustrator: His Wood Engravings 1857-1888 (11/18/03)
• A Journey Through the Nebraska Region in 1833 and 1834: From the Diaries of Prince Maximilian of Wied Translated by William J. Orr, Edited by William J. Orr and Joseph C. Porter [Introduction] (10/6/03)
• Sugaring Off: The Maple Sugar Paintings of Eastman Johnson (8/26/03)
• Honoring the Legacy of Lewis and Clark: Native American Art and the American West (2/13/03)

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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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