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

Autumn OaksGeorge Inness, ca. 1878Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Young Husband: First MarketingLilly Martin Spencer, 1854Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)Charles Ethan Porter, ca. 1890Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First room, south wall

Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore DuretJames McNeill Whistler, 1883Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, CaliforniaJules Tavernier, 1878Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second room, south wall

Stage Fort across Gloucester HarborFitz Henry Lane, 1862Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The Veteran in a New FieldWinslow Homer, 1865Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
PlumsJohn William Hill, 1870Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second room, north wall

The Dancing LessonThomas Eakins, 1878Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-RoomSeymour Joseph Guy, 1866Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The Music LessonJohn George Brown, 1870Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Third room, north wall

Inside the BarWinslow Homer, 1883Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
At the SeasideWilliam Merritt Chase, ca. 1892Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
NocturneJohn La Farge, ca. 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Third room, south wall

Factory--Study for "Ironworkers, Noontime"/Verso: Still Life with OrangeThomas Anshutz, (1880)Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution 
Pink Note–Shelling PeasJames McNeill Whistler, 1882-1884Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution