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

Reapers Resting in a Wheat FieldJohn Singer Sargent, 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Newburyport MeadowsMartin Johnson Heade, ca. 1876–81Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
NocturneJohn La Farge, ca. 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Inside the BarWinslow Homer, 1883Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First room, south wall

Young Husband: First MarketingLilly Martin Spencer, 1854Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Still Life—Violin and MusicWilliam Michael Harnett, 1888Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
At the SeasideWilliam Merritt Chase, ca. 1892Courtesy 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 
Roses in a VaseUnrecorded French maker, 1880/1900Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington 
Factory--Study for "Ironworkers, Noontime"/Verso: Still Life with OrangeThomas Anshutz, (1880)Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution 
Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New JerseyGeorge Inness, ca. 1891Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second room, north wall

The Yellow RoomJames McNeill Whistler, ca. 1883–84Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Autumn OaksGeorge Inness, ca. 1878Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Third room, north wall

Washington Crossing the DelawareEmanuel Leutze, 1851Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The New BonnetFrancis William Edmonds, 1858Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
SunriseGeorge Inness, 1887Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art