George Benjamin Luks, Street Scene (Hester Street)

Visiting the Lower East Side in 1905

George Bellows, Return of the Useless

The New York based ashcan artist George Bellows tackles the horrors of the First World War.

John Sloan, Movies

When movies were new and lights transformed the darkened city streets.

George Bellows, Pennsylvania Station Excavation

George Bellows, Both Members of This Club

The violence and physicality of this boxing match reflect contemporary racial tensions in pre-WWI New York.

The Ashcan School, an introduction

These painters wanted to create a new art, rooted in the raw, visceral, day-to-day reality of New York City.