The painters of the Ashcan School enjoyed the good life. They drank at McSorley's bar in New York City, watched Isadora Duncan dance and took trips to Coney Island.

However, the book does expand on the received image of the Ashcan School as a group of single-minded propagandists, presenting scholarly studies of them as inquisitive painters with a deep ...

It features nearly 150 paintings, drawings, pastels, and prints by Americans: Robert Henri, George Bellows, Joan Sloan, Maurice Prendergast, Maurice Duchamp (French) and others. The 171-page catalog, ...

Which is to say that the Ashcan School was, in terms both of date and interests, the rough equivalent of our Camden Town Group. If Edward Hopper is its best-known member – Ashcan membership was ...

George Bellows (1882-1925) was regarded as one of America's greatest artists when he died, at the age of 42, from a ruptured appendix. 2024 Tonys Guide Fans' Choice Awards Sign-up ...

The new George Bellows Center will support scholarship that goes beyond the ... he fell in with Robert Henri and a group of urban realist painters that would become known as the Ashcan School. ...

The Smith College Museum of Art is the recipient of one of the most celebrated works by a preeminent leader of the Ashcan School of American realist painting. Pennsylvania Excavation (1907), a ...

The Fisherman, a 1917 oil painting by George Bellows, ... When you’re talking about the Ashcan School, there is that kind of earthy, muddier palette. When he started looking at the sea, ...

George Bellows and the beauty of everyday violence. ... He, like Edward Hopper, was sometimes associated with the “Ashcan School” of painting, ...

The Ashcan School and The Eight is the unlikely name (ashcan, garbage can?) of the first American modern art movement, active in the early 20th century. But it was the fate of the Ashcan realists to ...