Ashcan School

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 Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011

They were dubbed the Ashcan School for their willingness to paint what they saw on the street.

USATODAY.com News 2010

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 Thatsnews 2008

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 Eric Gibson 2012

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 Eric Gibson 2012

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 Karen Wilkin 2011

However, while he depicted Jewish themes and experimented with cubism, she concentrated on landscapes and scenes from American life painted in an Ashcan School style, using bright colors.

Art in the United States. 2009

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. 2009

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 2008

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: 2007