American Scene elsewhere

Art Daily covered yesterday the opening on April 5 of Regional Dialect: American Scene Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection, an exhibition at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, in Memphis, Tenn. The exhibition includes 57 works by American Scene painters, some of whom you may know if you visit the Georgia Museum of Art's exhibitions regularly. At least two of them, Joe Jones and Carl Frederick Gaertner, appear in the exhibition catalogue above, Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930-1950, from the Schoen Collection, which remains available for purchase from the museum shop ($35 softcover; $45 hardcover). The catalogue features 128 paintings from the numerous periods that make up the American Scene from 1930 to 1950, when the influences of the Depression and World War II contributed to styles of art variously known as Regionalism, Social Realism, Magic Realism, Surrealism, and Precisionism.