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Industrial Revolution

1800Oceanic Art Romanticism Orientalism Hudson River School Early Photography Barbizon School Pre Raphaelites Realism Impressionism Meiji Art Early Modernism Post-Impressionism1900

Contemporary Art

1960Pop Art Post Modernism Shona Sculpture Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art Zaire School of Popular Painting2020

Social Realism

Realism as a weapon

Portrait of Pedro Figari

Pedro Figari

Painting from memory

Portrait of Horace Pippin

Horace Pippin

Portrait of Clare Atwood

Clare Atwood

Portrait of Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange

Iconic photographer bar None

Portrait of Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White

Portrait of Charles White

Charles White

Images of dignity

Portrait of Laura Gilpin

Laura Gilpin

Portrait of Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden

Portrait of Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

Modern Day Polymath

Portrait of Elizabeth Catlett

Elizabeth Catlett

Portrait of Barkley L. Hendricks

Barkley L. Hendricks

A Gathering (Tertulia)

Pedro Figari, 1900

Pericón

Pedro Figari, 1900

The Gaucho Candioti

Pedro Figari, 1900

Olympia in War Time: Royal Army Clothing Depot

Clare Atwood, 1918

Devonshire House 1918: VAD workers filing papers in the ballroom

Clare Atwood, 1919

Victoria Station 1918: The Green Cross Corps

Clare Atwood, 1919

Christmas Day in the London Bridge YMCA Canteen

Clare Atwood, 1920

Off for the Honeymoon

Pedro Figari, 1920

Cactus

Tina Modotti, 1925

Creole Dance

Pedro Figari, 1925

The Dance (Bailongo)

Pedro Figari, 1925

Two Women from Tehuantepec with jicalpextle

Tina Modotti, 1925

Workers Parade

Tina Modotti, 1926

Child in Sombrero

Tina Modotti, 1927

Hands Washing

Tina Modotti, 1927

Untitled

Tina Modotti, 1928

Woman with Flag

Tina Modotti, 1928

Tehuantepec Type

Tina Modotti, 1929

Ladle B, Otis Steel Mill, Cleveland

Margaret Bourke-White, 1930

Brother Brown

Loïs Mailou Jones, 1931

Preparing the Candombe (Decoration)

Pedro Figari, 1935

At the time of the Louisville Flood, Louisville, Kentucky

Margaret Bourke-White, 1937

Seated Man in Yellow Overalls

Loïs Mailou Jones, 1939

School Studies

Horace Pippin, 1944

A Chance Meeting in the Desert

Laura Gilpin, 1950

Sharecropper

Elizabeth Catlett, 1952

Southern Pasture

Benny Andrews, 1963

Sunday After Sermon

Romare Bearden, 1969

Mourners

Benny Andrews, 1974

Blood (Donald Formey)

Barkley L. Hendricks, 1975

Harriet

Elizabeth Catlett, 1975

Next Movement

Expressionism

A more authentic, anxious, and grotesque reality

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