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Ashcan School and The Eight Gallery

  • Ashcan School artists, c. 1896, l to r, Everett Shinn, Robert Henri, John French Sloan

  • Thomas Pollock Anshutz, The Farmer and His Son at Harvesting, 1879. Five members of the Ashcan School studied with him, but went on to create quite different styles.

  • Robert Henri, Snow in New York, 1902, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

  • Everett Shinn, Cross Streets of New York, 1899, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

  • William Glackens, Italo-American Celebration, Washington Square, 1912, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

  • John French Sloan, McSorley's Bar, 1912, Detroit Institute of Arts

  • George Luks, Houston Street 1917, oil on canvas, Saint Louis Art Museum

  • Edward Hopper, The El Station, 1908, Whitney Museum of American Art

  • George Bellows, Both Members of This Club (1909), National Gallery of Art. Bellows was a close associate of the Ashcan School.

  • Jacob Riis, Bandit's Roost 1888, (photo), considered the most crime-ridden, dangerous part of New York City.

  • Arthur B. Davies, Elysian Fields, oil on canvas, The Phillips Collection Washington, DC.

  • Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, New York 1901, Whitney Museum of American Art

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