Written by deborah schneider on February 13, 2013
The Ashcan School is understood to be a realist artistic movement which entered popularity in the United States within the early twentieth century. It is most widely known for pieces representing moments of everyday life in New York's poorer communities. The movement evolved from an organization referred to as The Eight, whose single exhibit together launched a phenomenon in the early 1900's. Its participants featured five painters later linked to the Ashcan School. Their names were: Robert Henri, George Luks, William Glackens, John French Sloan and Everett Shinn. They met studying with one another at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. They studied under a man by the name of Thomas Pollock Anshutz at the Academy. Read More |