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Ashcan school

A group of US painters of the early 20th century who painted realistic scenes of everyday urban life.

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ash′can school`

n.
(often caps.)

a group of American painters of the early 1900s whose paintings were derived from city life.

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Noun	1.	Ashcan School - a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life Eight school - a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting" art movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles
	2.	Ashcan school - early 20th-century United States painting; portrays realistic and sordid scenes of city life Ash Can art movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles

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A spokesman said: "It's probably the most important 20th century painting the National Gallery owns - and was the first of only two paintings by Bellows, one of the famous New York Ashcan School of artists, who were operating in the first 20 years of the 20th century.

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(28) After working as a photographer in Canada for a number of years, Geller came to Chicago in 1918 and studied in 1919 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Ashcan School artist and visiting lecturer George Bellows.

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Hopper was part of a group of artists referred to as the "Ashcan school" because, writes Westheider in an essay accompanying the exhibition, "they expressed the urban reality of the street for the first time."

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Indeed, that objective is entrenched in one of the collection's early signature works, its jaunty and rather carefree portrait of Mrs Whitney herself in turquoise silk pyjamas, by the Ashcan school painter Robert Henri; it was painted in 1916, when she had already founded the Whitney Studio to assist and champion American artists (Fig.

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Clarifying that Bernstein was neither a student of Robert Henri nor a member of the Ashcan School, a long-held misconception, further underscores the extent to which an artist's critical trajectory is framed by the significance of her position or affiliation, at times understood as both a privilege and an anomaly.

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It was carried on in America by the Ashcan school, which included such artists as George Bellows, Robert Henri, and Edward Hopper.

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Coming from the urban realism of The Ashcan School, my newest portfolio works to move my inner vision of the world around me into reality; to make the invisible visible.

Misterioso/painting with light: photographic explorations of walls, sidewalks and streets

(20) Rebecca Zurier, Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School (Berkeley: U of California P, 2006).

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The old masters, the French Impressionists, the Ashcan School, the abstract expressionists and the other various schools and trends no doubt each has supporters and enthusiasts.