Themes > Arts > Painting > 20th-Century Painting > North American Realism > American Scene Painting

America, 1931-1940 American Scene Painting is an umbrella term for the mainstream realist and antimodernist style of painting popular in the United States during the Great Depression. A reaction against the modern European style, it was seen as an attempt to define a uniquely American style of art. The American Scene basically consists of two main schools, the rural American Regionalism, and the urban and politically-oriented Social Realism. A few artists escaped being closely associated with the Regionalist and Social Realist camps, including Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield.

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