American genre painting - everyday scenes and landscapes of American artists of the 1920s and 1930s , made in a naturalistic, descriptive manner.
American genre painting was not an organized movement; it was a tendency to move away from abstractionism and avant-garde that was widespread among American artists between the two world wars. The most famous representatives of American genre painting are Burchfield, Hopper , as well as regionalists , whose works were somewhat nationalistic in nature.
Sources
- Art Guide edited by Jan Chilvers