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Ashcan School

A group of New York realists of the early twentieth century, around Robert Henri, who painted the city as it was: crowded tenements, back alleys, bars, boxing matches and the working poor. John Sloan, George Luks, William Glackens and Everett Shinn had been newspaper illustrators in Philadelphia and kept a reporter's eye; George Bellows painted fierce boxing scenes such as Stag at Sharkey's. Henri and his circle exhibited in 1908 as 'The Eight' against the conservative National Academy. Their dark palette and quick, vigorous brushwork came from Hals, Velázquez and Manet. The name, meaning 'rubbish-bin school', was given later and stuck.

How to tell it apart: gritty everyday scenes of American city life in dark, vigorous paint; Regionalism, later, turns to the countryside and the Midwest.

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Artists

Robert Henri · George Bellows · John Sloan · Everett Shinn · George Luks · Arthur Bowen Davies · Ernest Lawson

Best-known works

• “Dempsey and Firpo” — George Bellows, 1924
• “The Wrestlers” — George Luks, 1905
• “The Barricade” — George Bellows, 1918
• “The Masquerade Dress” — Robert Henri, 1911
• “Stag at Sharkey's” — George Bellows, 1909
• “Cliff Dwellers” — George Bellows, 1913
• “Men of the Docks” — George Bellows, 1912
• “Snow in New York” — Robert Henri, 1902
• “Both Members of This Club” — George Bellows, 1909
• “Miss Bentham” — George Bellows, 1906
• “Tennis at Newport” — George Bellows, 1919
• “The Lone Tenement” — George Bellows, 1909
• “Mildred Clarke von Kienbusch” — Robert Henri, 1914
• “Emma in a Purple Dress” — George Bellows, 1920
• “The Palisades” — George Bellows, 1909
• “Approach to the Bridge at Night” — George Bellows, 1913
• “A Morning Snow--Hudson River” — George Bellows, 1910
• “Tom Cafferty” — Robert Henri, 1924
• “Italian Hill Town” — Arthur Bowen Davies, 1925
• “Red Kimono on the Roof” — John Sloan, 1912
• “Forty-two Kids” — George Bellows, 1907
• “Club Night” — George Bellows, 1907
• “The White Ballet” — Everett Shinn, 1904
• “New York” — George Bellows, 1911
• “Love of Winter” — George Bellows, 1914
• “Portrait of a Girl” — Robert Henri, 1924
• “John” — Robert Henri, 1908
• “Mary Fanton Roberts” — Robert Henri, 1917
• “Herself” — Robert Henri, 1913
• “Himself” — Robert Henri, 1913