Ashcan School (Early 20th Century)

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About Ashcan School

Description of Ashcan School
Examples of Ashcan School
Ashcan School Artists - 13
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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 ... (view more)

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Examples of Ashcan School at Auction

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

Auction Houses that have sold Ashcan School works - 178

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