The group’s name came from a drawing by the artist George Bellows depicting three vagrants scrutinising the contents of an ash can. Artists associated with the Ashcan School include Robert Henri, ...

Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1882, Bellows studied at the Ohio State University. He moved to New York City in 1904 to study art with Robert Henri and the group of enthusiastic young painters around him, ...

George Bellows is perhaps best known for his pictures of boxing ... In common with an informal group of older American artists, nicknamed the Ashcan School for their supposedly squalid subject matter, ...

George Bellows and Modernism, (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009) to organise an exhibition centring on the painting and the Ashcan school’s treatment of the nude. The Barber is also ...