American Scene Painting - Oxford Definition

A movement in American painting, beginning in the mid-1920s and culminating in the 1930s, which concentrated on realistic art with a social content. It was nationalistic and small-town in spirit, anti-modernist and anti-international, and was symptomatic of the isolationism of parts of America in the period following the First World War. Its first major painters were Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper.