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John Sloan was a leading member of the Ashcan School. The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century [1] that produced works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods.
John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951) was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as The Eight .
Everett Shinn (1876–1953) painter, of the Ashcan school [69] John Sloan (1871–1951) painter, one founder of the Ashcan school [70] Louis B. Sloan (1932–2008; class of 1957) plein-air painter; first Black full professor at PAFA [71] Owen Staples (1866–1949), English-born Canadian painter, printmaker, illustrator, cartoonist, and writer [72]
John French Sloan, McSorley's Bar, 1912, Detroit Institute of Arts. John Sloan (1871–1951) was an early-20th-century Realist of the Ashcan school, whose concerns with American social conditions led him to join the Socialist Party in 1910. [4] Originally from Philadelphia, he worked in New York after 1904.
Everett Shinn (November 6, 1876 – May 1, 1953) was an American painter and member of the urban realist Ashcan School.. Shinn started as a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia, demonstrating a rare facility for depicting animated movement, a skill that would, however, soon be eclipsed by photography.
The Ashcan School, with artists such as Robert Henri, George Bellows, John Sloan, and Everett Shinn played a significant role in the development of American art, particularly within the Urban Realism movement.
"The Schoolmistress," a painting by notable artist John Opie around 1784, was taken from the home of Francis Wood, 96, in Newark in 1969.
William James Glackens (March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938) was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School, which rejected the formal boundaries of artistic beauty laid down by the conservative National Academy of Design.