Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930/1950, from the Schoen Collection

by Erika Doss

Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art and the Mobile Museum of Art, this exhibition featured 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. The exhibition traveled to Mobile, Alabama; Gainesville, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; Coral Gables, Florida; Savannah, Georgia; and Athens, Georgia. Essays by Erika Lee Doss and Andrew Ladis. Full-color images of all works.

344 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

Erika Doss is chair of the Department of American Studies program at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities.