Previously at the Met in NYC, “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915” is now installed in LACMA until May 23, 2010.
The exhibit includes “seventy-five paintings, from before the Revolution to the start of World War I, that tell these stories in scenes of family life and courting, work and leisure, comic mishaps and disasters… Major artists such as Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, John Singleton Copley and George Caleb Bingham, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt, are included in this important survey, the first of its kind in over thirty years.”
LACMA/ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
(Images: John Singleton Copley, “Watson and the Shark”, 1778, oil on canvas, and William McGregor Paxton, “The Breakfast”, 1911)