Realism






Works in this room
Ordinary people and working lives, painted as they were, from the 1840s on.
First room, north wall

PlumsJohn William Hill, 1870Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Inside the BarWinslow Homer, 1883Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Approaching Thunder StormMartin Johnson Heade, 1859Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First room, south wall

A Village SquareWalter Shirlaw, 1875–80Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 
Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)Charles Ethan Porter, ca. 1890Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The PleiadesElihu Vedder, 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second room, south wall

Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music RoomJames McNeill Whistler, 1860-1861Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution 
Rookwood PotteryGeorge Gibson, 1886Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 
NocturneJohn La Farge, ca. 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second room, north wall

The Belated Party on Mansfield MountainJerome B. Thompson, 1858Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Talking It OverEnoch Wood Perry, 1872Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Reapers Resting in a Wheat FieldJohn Singer Sargent, 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Third room, north wall

Factory--Study for "Ironworkers, Noontime"/Verso: Still Life with OrangeThomas Anshutz, (1880)Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution 
The Veteran in a New FieldWinslow Homer, 1865Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The Music LessonJohn George Brown, 1870Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The New BonnetFrancis William Edmonds, 1858Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art