American realistic art. What you need to know before going to the museum

The author realizes what audacity is to take on the story about the realistic art of the United States. In full, such a task can be affordable for the team of authors. Such work can fill several volumes. The author’s task is much more modest: to introduce potential visitors to museums of art in the United States, who, with the help of these essays, will be able to navigate in general terms in the main stages and directions of such a little familiar to our art lovers as the work of American realists. In addition to general trends, the author will stop not several unusuals, but extremely vivid artists, whose work was very typical of the national school and their vivid originality influenced other masters