American realism

Bo Bartlett, “Halloween” (2016)

Description Sara Roby (1907-1986) believed that the most effective way to encourage the visual arts in the United States was to acquire the works of living artists and exhibit them to the public. The Sara Roby Foundation began collecting American art in the mid-1950s, and during the next thirty years assembled a premier group of paintings and sculpture by the country’s leading figurative artists. In 1959, an exhibition of the Foundation’s collection opened at the Whitney Museum of American…

Highly emotional figuration, strong political content, and frank depiction of the common activities of daily life characterize the art ...

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Hopper detail. Cape Cod. 1930s.

Nigel Van Wieck

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