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Ash Can school

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Ash Can school

Group of U.S. realist painters, active in New York City c. 1908–18, who specialized in scenes of everyday urban life. Inspired by Robert Henri, the core group included William Glackens, George Luks (1867–1933), Everett Shinn (1876–1953), and John Sloan. As artist-reporters on the Philadelphia Press before moving to New York, they had developed a quick eye and a memory for detail. Though they often depicted slums and outcasts of the city, they were more interested in the picturesque aspects of these subjects than in the social issues they raised. George Wesley Bellows and Edward Hopper were also associated with the group. See also The Eight.
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American realist artists such as John Sloan and Maurice Prendergast, with an exhibit in 1910, founded a movement that later was called the Ash Can School for its portrayal of urban life.
Envisioning an association by Dye, Nancy / Liberal Education
His work has precedents in the urban visual journalism of Hopper's Ash Can School cousins, and he often sounds a chord of Hopperesque big-city loneliness - which, however, he tempers with a warmer heart than Hopper ever pretended to.
Martin Wong by Frankel, David / Artforum International
In her stream of recent drawings, gouaches, quick cartoons, and large-scale murals, diverse genres and art-historical references collide with ferocious energy: comic books, history painting, Ash Can School, Pablo Picasso, linear perspective, Saturday-morning cartoons, the hybrid musings of Saul Steinberg.
Nicole Eisenman by Kotz, Liz / Artforum International
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