ocr: While the. New Deal's Works Projects Administration saved New York's abstract artists from staryation, the realist regionalism known: as Americau Scene painting became commercially successtul, Among its great practitioners were Thomas Hart Beuton aud Graut Wood, whose Americon Gothic, painted in 1930,remains an euduring Ameriçau icou, (The models were his deutist and his sister.) Social realists ofthe ashcan school, such as Ben Shalu, depicted the bleakuess ofDepression life, But the artistwhose paiutings seena to capture somethiug iueftably American is Edward Hopper, His work was less about t ...
