also called genre scene or petit genre, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. These depictions can be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist.
Because of their familiar and frequently sentimental subject matter, genre paintings have often proven popular with
the middle class.
Pieter de Hooch, The Courtyard of a House in Delft1658
Jan VermeerThe Milkmaidcirca 1658 - 1661
George Bellows, Cliff Dwellers,1913
John Sloan, Backyard Greenwich Village, 1914
George Bellows, Men of the Docks, 1920
John Sloan, The City from Greenwich Village, 1922
John SloanSun and Wind on the Roof1915
Guy Pene du Bois, Cafe Madrid, 1926
Edward Hopper, Automat, 1927
Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932
Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942
Edward Hopper, French Six-Day Bicycle Rider, 1937
Edward Hopper, Chair Car, 1964
Reginald Marsh, Coney Island
Reginald MarshFourteenth Street Stairs, 1932
Reginald Marsh, Park Bench
Reginald Marsh, Four Girls on the Boardwalk, 1949
Reginald Marsh, The Normandie, 1953
Paul Cadmus, Seeing the New Year in.
Paul Cadmus, Bar Italia, 1953-55
Paul Cadmus, Aspects of Suburban Life: Main Street
Philip Evergood, Sunny Side of the Street III
Robert Adams, Colorado Spring , Colorado, 1968
Robert Adams, Interiors, 1973-74
Robert Adams, Colorado Springs, 1968
Robert Adams
Robert Adams, The Western Edge of Denver, Colorado, about 1980
Walker Evans, City Lunch Counter, New York, 1929
William Eggleston, Jackson, Mississippi, c. 1969
William Eggleston, Memphis, c. 1969
Early Modernism: Abstraction from everyday life.
Stuart DavisLucky Strike1921
Stuart DavisPercolater1927
Stuart Davis, The Mellow Pad, 1952
Stuart Davis, Colonial Cubism, 1954
Stuart DavisBlips and Ifs, 1963-64
Richard Hamilton, $he, 1958-61
Richard Hamilton, “Just what is it the makes today’s homes do different, so appealing?”
Richard Hamilton, Towards a Definitive Statement on the Coming Trends in Men’s Underwear and Accessories: (a0 Together let us explore the stars, 1962