After three centuries in the shadow of European art, American painting is at last coming to the center of its own stage. Last year in New York City alone there were an estimated 500 exhibitions of paintings by Americans. This fall's season is opening with a widespread and impressive array of U.S. interest. The Cincinnati Art Museum is featuring an exhibition of 20th century U.S. realism which it calls "An American Viewpoint"; Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute has hung 121 works in its "American Classics of the 19th Century"; Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is about to...
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