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In the early 20th century, a group of eight American realist painters based in New York City organized & established an influential American genre in 20th century painting.
Robert Henri - Cafferty - 1926
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“The Eight” initial painters included Robert Henri, (leader), Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, George Luks & William J. Glackens.
Robert Henri - Snow in New York" (1902)
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“The Eight” later joined with artists
Edward Hopper, Glenn Coleman, Eugene Higgins, Jerome Myers & George Bellows.
Robert Henri - Eva Green
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Post their 1st exhibition in 1908, one critic labeled their work as belonging to ‘The Ash Can School’ as an insult. The name stuck.
Everett Shinn - Fifth Avenue - 1910
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This critique stemmed from the gritty urban subject matter and the preferred dark color palettes (scraped from the bottom of an ash can).
Back Row, Follies Bergere by Everett Shinn
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“The Eight” like many innovative & influential groups of artists rebelled against the academic & popular aesthetic traditions of the day (pretty pastoral scenes & tableaux from mythology).
Everett Shinn - Rehearsal of the Ballet
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“The Eight” established their own artistic society in New York & set out to create a uniquely American painting genre competitive with European standards.
John Sloan - Sun And Wind On The Roof
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The Ash Can School was more revolutionary in its subject matter (gritty urban reality of the poor & disenfranchised) rather than its style.
John French Sloan - The Haymarket (1907)
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These artists believed what was real and true in life was what was beautiful and what constituted “art.”
Election Night by John Sloan, 1907.
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Ash Can School paintings have a loose and spontaneous style, very different from the polished techniques taught in the American art academies of the period. (#PreRaphaelite/Neo-Classical)
A Greater Morning - Arthur B. Davies
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For example, Ash Can painters preferred a ‘slap-dash, rapid handling of the paint left individual brushstrokes applied thickly.’
George Luks - Allen Street - 1905
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Ash Can painters preferred a dark & subdued palette, a result of Robert Henri’s trip to Europe, where he became influenced by the work of Goya, Velazquez, Hals and Manet.
Ernest Lawson - The Pigeon Coop
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Luks, Sloan, Glackens, and Shinn worked as newspaper illustrator-cartoonists & found inspiration capturing everyday life they found about the streets of NYC.
George Luks - The Secret
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The artists presented unidealized views of city life in the saloons, tenements, pool halls, and slums
Maurice Prendergast - Boston - 1905
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“Some members adopted a rough, realistic style, utilizing flashy brushwork on a dark ground in a manner reminiscent of Édouard Manet & Gustave Courbet.”
Revere Beach by Maurice Prendergast, 1896
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Prendergast enjoyed the decorative patterns of color he found in the work of the French Nabi group in his interpretations of the American landscape.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Il Canal Grande, Venezia, 1898-99
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Davies painted dreamy, twilight scenes evolved from romantic allegories rather than from contemporary life.
Pacific Parnassus, Mount Tamalpais by Arthur Bowen Davies ca. 1905.
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Ladies of the Rain by Maurice Prendergast, 1893
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Maurice Prendergast, la Porte Saint-Denis, Paris
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Lawson adopted a style that was imaginatively atmospheric.
The Harlem River from High Bridge
by Ernest Lawson
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“In 1908, as a protest against prevailing restrictive academic exhibition procedures the “Eight” organized a historic exhibition that became a symbol of rebellion in American & modern art.”
Hester Street 1905 - George Luks
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“The show was revolutionary in that it was the first exhibit that was self-organized & self-selected by a group of related artists, without a jury & prizes.”
William James Glackens - Sledding in Central Park - 1912
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“This type of non-juried exhibition became the model for one of the most famous exhibits in the history of Modern Art: The Armory Show of 1914.”
L'Aperitif - 1926 - William J. Glackens
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“The Ashcan school paved the way for the development of a vital & native trend in American painting of the 20th century.”
William James Glackens - Bathing at Bellport, Long Island - 1912
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Edward Hopper - Nighthawks - 1942
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Edward Hopper - Chop Suey - 1929
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Edward Hopper - Automat - 1927
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Manetti Lane - Glenn O.Coleman
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Back cover of The Masses - December 1914 - Glenn O. Coleman
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Glenn Coleman - Street Scene, Lower New York.
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The Black Cloud - Eugene Higgins
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Eugene Higgins
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Jerome Myers
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Jerome Myers - In Lower New York - 1926
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George Bellows - Stag at Sharkey’s
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George Bellows - The Lone Tenement
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Influencer:
Francisco Jose de Goya
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Influencer:
Diego Velázquez
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Influencer:
Frans Hals - Boy Playing the Violin
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Influencer:
Édouard Manet - Cafe
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Influencer:
The kill of deer - Gustave Courbet
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Everette Shinn - Window Shopping - 1903
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Everett Shinn - Concert Stage - 1905
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The Blue Plaid Dress (Annie) by Robert Henri
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👉🏼Please jump in and add your favorites from this era or images influenced by this movement.
👉🏼Coloring outside the lines is welcome & encouraged.
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If you enjoyed this thread please check out #POPART, #GermanExpressionism, #PreRaphaelites, #Dadaism & #Surrealism.
Next up? Neo-Classism, Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism or ?
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Salome by Robert Henri
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