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Ashcan School (Early 20th Century)


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 ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with Ashcan School — 13 artists:

George Wesley Bellows
Arthur Bowen Davies
Guy Pene DuBois
William James Glackens
Robert Henri
Ernest Lawson
Charles Wheeler Locke

George Benjamin Luks
Jerome Myers
Margery Ryerson
Everett Shinn
John French Sloan
Benton Murdoch Spruance

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