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| 1827 |
| | | With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | | A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains | |
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| 1859 |
| | | US artist James McNeill Whistler settles in London, which he makes his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1866 |
| | | US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front | |
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| 1875 |
| | | US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers | |
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| 1925 |
| | | House by the Railroad, by US painter Edward Hopper, introduces a new style of urban realism | |
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| 1938 |
| | | American naïve painter Grandma Moses has her first exhibition in a local drug store at the age of 78 | |
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| 1946 |
| | | A new style of American painting, involving artists such as Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, is given the name Abstract Expressionism | |
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| 1947 |
| | | US artist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings cause a stir in New York | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning exhibits his series Women nos I-VI, on which he has been working since 1938 | |
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