The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century that produced works portraying scenes of daily life in New York
John French Sloan, Self-portrait, 1890, oil on window shade, 14 × 11+7⁄8 inches, Delaware Art Museum, gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1970. John Sloan was a leading member of the Ashcan School.
Ashcan School artists and friends at John French Sloan's Philadelphia Studio, 1898
Ashcan School artists, c. 1896, left to right, 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.
Everett Shinn was an American painter and member of the urban realist Ashcan School.
Self-portrait done in 1901 in his charcoal style