American realism
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American realism was a movement in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in t
George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo (1924), Whitney Museum of American Art
George Bellows, New York (1911)
Ashcan school artists and friends at John French Sloan's Philadelphia Studio, 1898
The Ten American Painters in 1908. The 10 were Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, William Merritt Chase, Robert Reid, Willard Metcalf, Frank Weston Benson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Joseph DeCamp, and Edward Simmons.
Jack London
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John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t
American realism
…by his pen was a cruel and sordid business. Other writers of this sort included Edward Eggleston, Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Deland, Henry James, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, and J. D. Salinger. Jacob August Riis (1849–1914), a Danish-American…
London in 1903
London at the age of nine with his dog Rollo, 1885
Jack London studying at Heinold's First and Last Chance in 1886
Heinold's First and Last Chance, "Jack London's Rendezvous"