Maurice Brazil Prendergast was an American artist who painted in oil and watercolor, and created monotypes. His delicate landscapes and scenes of modern life, characterized by mosaic-like color, are generally associated with Post-Impressionism. Prendergast, however, was also a member of The Eight, a group of early twentieth-century American artists who, aside from Prendergast, represented the Ashcan School.
Prendergast in 1913, photo by Gertrude Käsebier
Green Dress (1891–94)
Street Scene (1891–94)
Along the Seine (1892–94)
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, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods.
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.