NOUN
- a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life
How To Use Ashcan School In A Sentence
- They were dubbed the Ashcan School for their willingness to paint what they saw on the street. USATODAY.com News
- Although not a formal member of the Ashcan School, Bernstein shared with it a passion for “modern” subject matter, to which she added a radically expressive manner. Theresa Bernstein.
- This exhibition of 174 works by 74 artists includes images known almost universally, such as these Hopper scenes of New York at night and George Bellow's prize fight "A Stag at Sharkey's," as well as a generous helping of works by others from the Ashcan School of gritty urban realism, especially John Sloan. Britain pays tribute to American prints
- However, in style and technique the artists of the Ashcan School are now seen to have differed less from contemporary academic painting than they themselves believed.
- Such is the case in this exhibit, which brings us back to New York City's bars, beaches, parks and arenas in the first decades of the 20th century through the vibrant works of artists from the Ashcan School. Found in the Ashcan School Show:
- There he studied with William Merritt Chase and the Ashcan School painter Robert Henri, whose gritty imagery seems to have had a lasting effect on Hopper's choice of subject. A Peek Behind Those Paintings
- Thereafter the narrative unfolds in a series of galleries tracing the major phases, themes and figures of American art: the Revolution, the Hudson River School, Western art, Homer and Eakins, and the like, concluding with the early 20th-century Ashcan School of urban realists. Opening the Book of American Art
- Closing with the early 20th-century Ashcan School makes sense chronologically, but since this isn't an area of collection strength, it's something of an anticlimax. Opening the Book of American Art
- All four men were members of "The Eight," who painted scenes of urban life in the unidealized, brushy style that became known as the Ashcan School, which Whitney championed. Gertrude Whitney's Gambit
- The exhibition opens in 1905 with John Sloan’s etchings of everyday urban life, marking the genesis of a distinct modern American school, later dubbed the Ashcan School, which launched its first exhibition in New York exactly 100 years ago. Archive 2008-05-01
