Excerpt from American Genre: The Social Scene in Paintings and Prints; March 26 to April 29, 1935 Few urban subjects were attempted. In these days when the Eastern cities were growing so tremendously, there was no American Daumier to record them. Our cities were not decorative, and to reveal them in all their bare ugliness would have required a more drastic realism thanmost of our painters possessed. Saloons, theatres, painted women and slums would have seemed positively indecent to the art public of the time. The urban burgher preferred his rural scenes or at the most J. G. Brown's scrubbed newsboys or E. L. Henry s charming little idylls of an earlier New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.