Ashcan painters made the ordinary into art.(National Museum of American...

Insight on the News;  January 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......group of artists in New York at the turn of the...become known as the Ashcan School, dedicated to capturing...early 20th-century New York have been brought...celebrated. Inevitably, the Ashcan artists were drawn to New York -- to the dynamics...

Sloan

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      21 words ...Sloan / slōn / , John French (1871–1951) , US painter. A member of the Ashcan School, he painted scenes of New York City.

Beauty Out of the Ashes

The Washington Post;  December 15, 1995 ;     700+ words ......trying to corral the six painters of New York's so-called Ashcan School; they never quite net the darting...except the Ohio-born Bellows moved to New York from Philadelphia, where they had...the six "apostles of ugliness." The Ashcan School sobriquet came from a ...

The harsh truth ART

The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ......a prominent member of the Ashcan School, so named for its resolute...Goyaesque conscience of the Ashcan School, John Sloan was its Baudelairean...street. Sloan's visions of New York have an exuberant carnality...etchings of girls on the New York subway he winkingly ...

Ashcan School

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;      62 words ...00-00-0000 Ashcan School Ashcan School A group of artists whose fascination with urban life introduced...realism into American painting. When they exhibited together in New York in 1908, they were known as the Eight. The ashcan label reflected...

'Seeing the City' offers in-depth view of N.Y.

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  February 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ......1912), climbed to the top of New York's Washington Square Arch...The realist painters of the Ashcan school -- Sloan, George Luks, William...notions that served him well in New York City, where the grit and grime...several other artists of the Ashcan School, including ...

ASHCAN ARTIST SHOW GRIPPINGLY PORTRAYS POVERTY.(LIFESTYLE)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  January 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ......or in the street. New York City Life: 1905-1940...etchings by the famous Ashcan School artist John Sloan...illustrator. The New York print series was...says. Of course, New York was the largest by...Philadelphia to join the Ashcan artists, Sloan was...

Art; The Unemotional Passion of Stuart Davis

The Washington Post;  May 11, 1994 ;     700+ words ......and theories that began arriving in New York shortly after he did in 1909. What this...tradition of the turn-of-the-century Ashcan School, managed to wrestle the cubism of Picasso...pivotal image to this show. Returning to New York as the Gre

NEW YEAR'S DAY KICKS OFF NEW YORK'S 400TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 1, 2009 ;     662 words ......today, New Year's Day, marks the start of New York's Quadricentennial celebration commemorating 400 years of history on the Hudson River, New York Harbor and Lake Champlain. This year, New York honors the 400th anniversaries of the voyage...

Bruce Museum looks at contentious relationship between Chase, Henri.

Stamford Advocate (Stamford, CT);  January 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......years earlier, when Chase hired Henri to teach at the New York School of Art, was over. Their abrupt parting came...renowned portraitist, and Henri, leader of the realistic Ashcan School movement and its earthy urban depictions, were at an...explains Orcutt, associate curator of American art at ...

Bellows, George

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;      66 words ......George Bellows, George (1882-1925) Realist painter. A student of ASHCAN SCHOOL leader Robert Henri, Bellows helped to mount the 1913 ARMORY SHOW. A lifelong resident of New York, he painted gritty urban tableaus such as The Cliff Dwellers (1913...

HEART OF SHOW IS BELLOWS IN RHODE ISLAND

The Boston Globe;  September 1, 2000 ;     658 words ......proponent of an art movement called the Ashcan School in the early 20th century, made up of...paintings of the Maine coast; he lived in New York, so images of life there also appear...scene of the bathing room at the YMCA in New York. There are no ties to Newport in this...

NEW YORK GUARD READIES FOR NEW YEAR'S DUTY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 30, 2008 ;     254 words ......said the Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen of the New York National Guard are ready to support homeland...missions across the state. At the direction of New York Gov. David Paterson, members of the New York Army and Air National Guard will conduct additional...

NEW YORK GUARD READIES FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  December 31, 2008 ;     289 words ......the citizen soldiers and airmen of the New York National Guard are ready to support homeland...of Gov. David Paterson, members of the New York Army and Air National Guard will conduct...authorities if an emergency occurs. In New York City, National Guard soldiers and airmen...

What makes John Sloan's "The ...

The Washington Post;  June 29, 2003 ;     223 words ......Philadelphia Inquirer when he caught the art bug from Robert Henri, whom he followed to New York. There he became a member of "the Eight" and of the Ashcan School. Sloan was a socialist. He drew for the magazine the Masses. But this nocturne is less...