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Ashcan School

George Benjamin Luks, Street Scene (Hester Street), 1905, oil on canvas, 65.5 x 91.1 cm (Brooklyn Museum, 40.339, Dick S. Ramsay Fund) — Visiting the Lower East Side in 1905

George Benjamin Luks, Street Scene (Hester Street)

by Margarita Karasoulas, Assistant Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum and Dr. Steven Zucker

George Bellows, Return of the Useless (detail), 1918, oil on canvas, 149.9 x 167.6 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) — The New York based ashcan artist George Bellows tackles the horrors of the First World War

Bellows, Return of the Useless

by Dr. Jennifer Padgett, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

John Sloan, Movies, 1913, oil on canvas, 50.3 x 61 cm (Toledo Museum of Art) — When movies were new and lights transformed the darkened city streets.

John Sloan, Movies

by Dr. Lawrence W. Nichols, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

George Bellows, Pennsylvania Station Excavation, oil on canvas, c. 1907-08 (Brooklyn Museum) — […]

George Bellows, Pennsylvania Station Excavation

by Margarita Karasoulas, Assistant Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum and Dr. Steven Zucker

George Bellows, Both Members of This Club, ) detail — The violence and physicality of this boxing match reflect contemporary racial tensions in pre-WWI New York.

George Bellows, Both Members of This Club

by Abby R. Eron

Detail, Robert Henri, Cumulus Clouds, East River - thumb — These painters wanted to create a new art, rooted in the raw, visceral, day-to-day reality of New York City.

The Ashcan School, an introduction

by Farisa Khalid