Realism
Ordinary people and working lives, painted as they were, from the 1840s on.
First room, north wall

Reapers Resting in a Wheat FieldJohn Singer Sargent, 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)Thomas Eakins, 1871Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First room, south wall

Washington Crossing the DelawareEmanuel Leutze, 1851Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
A Village SquareWalter Shirlaw, 1875–80Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Second room, south wall

The Dancing LessonThomas Eakins, 1878Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Spanish LadyLouis M. Eilshemius, 1889Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution 
The Belated Party on Mansfield MountainJerome B. Thompson, 1858Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second room, north wall

Garden View, BrooklynFidelia Bridges, ca. 1867Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
SunriseGeorge Inness, 1887Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore DuretJames McNeill Whistler, 1883Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The Yellow RoomJames McNeill Whistler, ca. 1883–84Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Third room, north wall

Young Husband: First MarketingLilly Martin Spencer, 1854Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music RoomJames McNeill Whistler, 1860-1861Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution 
Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)John Singer Sargent, 1883–84Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Third room, south wall

NocturneJohn La Farge, ca. 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
An Orange Note: Sweet ShopJames McNeill Whistler, 1883 or 1884Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution