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1866
 
    
US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front       
1875
 
    
US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers       
1885
 
   
The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career      
1920
 
   
Artists dedicated to celebrating the Canadian landscape come together as the Group of Seven      
1922
 
   
Diego Rivera, returning from his study of Italian frescoes, begins the first of his influential murals depicting Mexican history      
1925
 
    
House by the Railroad, by US painter Edward Hopper, introduces a new style of urban realism       
1938
 
   
American naïve painter Grandma Moses has her first exhibition in a local drug store at the age of 78      
1946
 
    
A new style of American painting, involving artists such as Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, is given the name Abstract Expressionism       
1947
 
   
US artist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings cause a stir in New York      
1953
 
    
US abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning exhibits his series Women nos I-VI, on which he has been working since 1938