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.
George Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. He became, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American ar
Ashcan School
…credited to artist Art Young in 1916. The term by that time was applied to a large number of painters beyond the original "Philadelphia Five," including George Bellows, Glenn O. Coleman, Jerome Myers, Gifford Beal, Eugene Higgins, Carl Sprinchorn and Edward Hopper. (Despite his inclusion in the group by some critics…
Cliff Dwellers, (1913), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
A 1920 portrait painting of Waldo Peirce by George Bellows, on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco