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Ashcan School (Early 20th Century)
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Ashcan School
Term
first
used
by
Holger
Cahill
and
Alfred
Barr
in
Art
in
America
(New
York,
1934)
and
loosely
applied
to
American
urban
realist
painters.
In
particular
it
referred
to
those
members
of
THE
EIGHT
who
shortly
after
1900
began
to
portray
ordinary
aspects
of
city
life
in
their
paintings,
for
example
George
Luks’s
painting
Closing
the
Café
(1904;
Utica,
NY,
Munson-Williams-Proctor
Inst.).
Robert
Henri,
John
Sloan,
William
J.
Glackens,
Everett
Shinn
and
George
Luks
were
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