Most ubiquitous national artworks

[Creoda]

What would be the works by domestic artists most commonly found hanging in homes in your country, or others? Or commonly displayed/referenced.

For England it would have to be The Hay Wain (1821), by John Constable. Have one in my house.


For Australia it would probably be the most famous by Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts or Arthur Streeton, all of the Heidelberg School.

The Pioneer (1904, three panels), by McCubbin. Grew up with this on the wall.


Shearing the Rams (1890), by Roberts.

[Creoda]

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[Crn Volk]

Mucha's The Slav Epic cycle No.6 (1926): The Coronation of Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan, Skopje, Macedonia 1346

[Ford]

Kosovo Maiden by Uroš Predić is pretty typical to find in Serbian homes I'd say.

[Daco Celtic]

Americans are far less tasteful than what has been posted. In reality a Thomas Kinkade painting or dogs playing poker might the most common. American Gothic is the most famous painting but hardly ever hung on people's wall.

For a historic painting, this might be the most frequently displayed:

Washington Crossing the Delaware are three 1851 oil-on-canvas paintings by the German-American artist Emanuel Leutze. Also a favorite of British people.


This is more of a modern classic you might see in an urbanites home/ apartment. Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window.

[Creoda]

I imagine Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe diptych is up there for America (if you want to consider it art), mostly for the sort of people living in studio apartments in big cities.

[Daco Celtic]

Another American move would be having the most cliché art from van Gogh, Picasso, Salvador Dalí, etc. Women in the US especially like van Gogh for some reason. Smaller and more homogenous counties have an easier time picking a singular piece of art.