REGIONALISM

Regionalism is a realist modern American art movement that was popular during the 1930s. The artistic focus was from artists who shunned the city life and rapidly developing technological advances to create scenes of rural life. Regionalist style was at its height from 1930 to 1935, and is best-known through the so-called "Regionalist Triumvirate" of Grant Wood in Iowa, Thomas Hart Benton in Missouri, and John Steuart Curry inKansas. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Regionalist art was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland.