New Realism

US art movement of the 1930s and 1940s, involving a small group of independent realist painters who stood apart from abstract art and contemporary European influences, and believed in the importance of realistic detail. Leading New Realists include Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, and Charles Burchfield. Their work is characterized by a factual and naturalistic approach to subject matter.

Although the artists of the group worked independently - each inspired by very different subjects - stylistically they all fell within the same movement. The 19th-century painter Thomas Eakins was an earlier proponent of realism in US art.