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.
It reflects both their experience within the art-school life class and beyond, contrasting this with work from his pre-New York days, and with the art of contemporaries outside of the
Ashcan School.
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.
Here, in force, are the regionalists who worked on the shores of Cape Cod and northern California, in Dallas and Charleston, SC, as well as the
Ashcan School of New York, Hayter's Atelier 17, and countless other small ateliers and workshops well off the beaten paths and often unknown and unseen.
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.
It was carried on in America by the
Ashcan school, which included such artists as George Bellows, Robert Henri, and Edward Hopper.
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.
Unwanted by the
Ashcan School alumni who formed the bulk of the Independents' founders; desired by the baby boomers of the '60s, who sought liberation from all constraints in art and life alike.
20) Rebecca Zurier, Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the
Ashcan School (Berkeley: U of California P, 2006).
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.
26) Stuart Davis quoted in Rebecca Zurrier, Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the
Ashcan School (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 123.
Aesthetically, the Photo League was to photography what the
Ashcan School was to painting: Its members' subjects were the tired, the poor, the huddled masses.
