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Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America’s heart—its land and its people—and describes the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

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British figurative painter and NYC-based Nigel Van Wieck has spent the past two decades gaining respect and recognition for his artworks that celebrate American realism in all its glory. With sma...

ART & ARTISTS: Thomas Hart Benton - part 4 WWII Treasure Island Painting, Ossabaw Island Art, Thomas Hart Benton Paintings, Prince Edward Island Painting, Vintage Kings Island, Castle On Island Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Art Thomas, Thomas Hart Benton

This is part four of a four-part post on the works of American 'Regionalist' artist Thomas Hart Benton. For biographical notes on Benton see part one. US Navy Art Collection: Benton was deeply moved by the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, and shortly thereafter he completed "The Year of Peril," a series of grim and powerful war paintings financed by Abbott Laboratories. In 1943 he collaborated with Georges Schreiber in producing the Abbott Collection of Submarine Paintings, a project largely…

"Towering," Beatrice Cuming, ca. 1930s, oil on canvas. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Loan from New London High School. Industrialization Art, Industrial Environment, Industrial Paintings Art, Factory Painting, Historic Building Art Space, Industrial Buildings Artwork, The Industrial Revolution Art, Industrial Factory Painting, Industrial Factory Landscape Painting

Jerry Weiss reviews two exhibitions, Urban Realism in American Art and First Impressions, at the Lyman Allyn Museum of Art in New London, Connecticut.

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