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American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915
October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor
This exhibition features more than 100 American masterpieces depicting ordinary people engaged in life’s tasks and pleasures. In the first section (1765–1830), John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and others tell stories within the expressive bounds of portraiture. In the second section (1830–60), William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, and others paint genre scenes that define national identity and character. In the third section (1860–77), Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and others respond to the Civil War, and, going forward, encode Reconstruction and the Centennial in pictures that help to heal the nation’s spirit. In the final section (1877–1915), Homer and Eakins—joined by Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, John Sloan, and others—explore new subjects and narrative modes in an increasingly cosmopolitan age. Throughout, attention is directed to stories the artists choose to tell, how they tell them, and how their stories have been read by observers over time.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is made possible by Alamo Rent A Car, The Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Oceanic Heritage Foundation.It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The catalogue is made possible by The William Cullen Bryant Fellows of the American Wing. Education programs are made possible by The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts.
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