A realist art movement that flourished in the [[United States]] during the 1920s–1940s, celebrating rural American life and landscapes, particularly of the [[Midwest]]. Key figures include [[Grant Wood]], [[Thomas Hart Benton]]—whose sweeping mural [[America Today - Thomas Hart Benton (1930)|America Today]] captures the energy of American life—and [[John Steuart Curry]], whose [[John Brown - John Steuart Curry (1939)|John Brown]] dramatizes a pivotal figure in American history. It succeeded [[American Realism]] and consciously rejected European [[Modernism]] and abstraction in favor of accessible, narrative scenes of American identity.