George Luks
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George Benjamin Luks was an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of American painting.
Gertrude Käsebier, George Luks, c. 1910
Luks' 1899 cartoon "The menace of the Hour" about "The Traction Monster" following the awarding of a no bid subway franchise contract by New York City's Tammany Hall
Allen Street, c. 1905, Hunter Museum of American Art
Street Scene (Hester Street), 1905, oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum
John Sloan
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John French Sloan was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as The Eight. He is best
George Luks
…proved seminal to his career, not so much for the work he accomplished as for the lifelong friends he acquired." Working at that newspaper, he met John Sloan, William Glackens, and Everett Shinn. These men would gather for weekly meetings, ribaldly social as well as intellectual, at the studio of Robert…
Sloan in 1891
The Women's Page, from the series New York City Life, etching on paper, 1905
John French Sloan, McSorley's Bar, painted in 1912 after becoming regular at McSorley's, Detroit Institute of Arts
June 1914 cover of The Masses depicting the Ludlow Massacre