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Article: REYNOLDS HOMESTEAD EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS HISTORY OF TOBACCO
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 17, 2009
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BLACKSBURG, Va., July 17 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Virginia Tech's Reynolds Homestead will exhibit 18 paintings recently donated to the university by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, at a public opening and reception from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 2.
The paintings - which show various aspects of harvesting, hanging, and selling tobacco - are from the American Regionalism movement that was prominent in the 1930s and 1940s.
Regionalists, sometimes called American scene painters, concentrated on the realistic depiction of life in the Midwest and South, derived from a patriotic desire to establish a genuine American art free from ...