A maverick group of painters in New York City set the foundation for depicting life in the changing, surging metropolis.
c. 1908 - 1940
A maverick group of painters in New York City set the foundation for depicting life in the changing, surging metropolis.
c. 1908 - 1940
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The New York based ashcan artist George Bellows tackles the horrors of the First World War.
The violence and physicality of this boxing match reflect contemporary racial tensions in pre-WWI New York.
These painters wanted to create a new art, rooted in the raw, visceral, day-to-day reality of New York City.
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