Realism
Ordinary people and working lives, painted as they were, from the 1840s on.
First 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 Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)Thomas Eakins, 1871Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
John Quincy Adams WardHenry Augustus Loop, 1863Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Rookwood PotteryGeorge Gibson, 1886Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
First room, south wall

Spanish LadyLouis M. Eilshemius, 1889Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution 
The Belated Party on Mansfield MountainJerome B. Thompson, 1858Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Autumn OaksGeorge Inness, ca. 1878Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second room, south wall

SunriseGeorge Inness, 1887Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore DuretJames McNeill Whistler, 1883Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)Charles Ethan Porter, ca. 1890Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second room, north wall

Inside the BarWinslow Homer, 1883Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New JerseyGeorge Inness, ca. 1891Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Young Husband: First MarketingLilly Martin Spencer, 1854Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Third room, north wall

Still Life—Violin and MusicWilliam Michael Harnett, 1888Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Pink Note–Shelling PeasJames McNeill Whistler, 1882-1884Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution 
Approaching Thunder StormMartin Johnson Heade, 1859Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art