2001-2005 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American Scene Painting and Regionalism"

2001-2005 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American Scene Painting and Regionalism"

(above: Thomas Hart Benton, Poker Night (from A Streetcar Named Desire), Whitney Museum of American Art. Source: Sharon Mollerus. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "American Scene Painting and Regionalism." Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the date of publication in Resource Library.

Our 20 articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Tunis Ponsen: essay by Susan S. Weininger (12/22/05) see pages 6-7

Reginald Marsh, U.S. Custom House Murals: Reframed and Reseen; article by Lisa Leavitt (7/29/05)

Heroic America: James Daugherty's Mural Drawings from the 1930s; essay by Rebecca E. Lawton (6/23/05)

Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930-1950, from the Schoen Collection (5/20/05)

John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle Wast; essay By Patricia Junker (1/25/05)

Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950 (5/17/05) TFAO's Resource Library article contains the transcript of a 25-part audio tour of the exhibit including modules on the American Scene. A podcast of the tour was available on the Orange County Museum of Art website during the exhibit..

George Biddle, Raphael Soyer, and the Genius with a Thousand Faces; essay by Andrew Ladis (5/18/05) - This essay was written in connection with the exhibition.

Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930-1950, from the Schoen Collection (9/27/04) - This article contains a checklist of the exhibition.

Coming Home: American Paintings, 19301950, from the Schoen Collection (5/17/04)

Eric Bransby: Draftsman and Muralist; essay by William Underwood Eiland (4/28/04)

Great Lakes Muse: American Scene Painting from the Upper Midwest, 1910 - 1960; "Inlanders and the American Scene: Modern Great Lakes Painting", essay by Michael D. Hall (11/1`0/03)

Down on the Farm (12/19/02)

"Girl Walking," 1946, A Painting by the Artist Reginald Marsh (1898 - 1954), essay by Gregg Hertzlieb (9/24/02)

Grant Wood: Regionalist; essay by Don Gray (7/22/02)

The Challenge of Thomas Hart Benton; essay by Don Gray (2/4/02)

The Northern Scene, essay by Raymond L. Wilson (9/12/01)

Dream and Perspective: American Scene Painting in Southern California, essay by by Susan M. Anderson (8/13/01)

Thomas Hart Benton, by Marianne Berardi (4/30/01)

Scenes of American Life: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (4/15/01)

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(above: Thomas Hart Benton, Noon, tempera and oil on board, 55.9 x 71.1 cm, Sotheby's. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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