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  2. Ashcan School - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. William Glackens - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Robert Henri - Wikipedia

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    Robert Henri (/ ˈ h ɛ n r aɪ /; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher.. As a young man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against American academic art, as reflected by the conservative National Academy of Design.

  5. George Luks - Wikipedia

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    George Benjamin Luks (August 13, 1867 – October 29, 1933) was an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of American painting.. After travelling and studying in Europe, Luks worked as a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist in Philadelphia, where he became part of a close-knit group, led by Robert Henri, that set out to defy the genteel values imposed by the ...

  6. List of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts people

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    It is the oldest school of this type in the United States. Although it ceased to offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the 2024–2025 academic year, the certificate programs and other instruction continue. [1] [2] This list includes notable alumni, faculty, honorary degree awardees, PAFA founders, school directors, and school presidents.

  7. American realism - Wikipedia

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    George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo (1924), Whitney Museum of American Art George Bellows, New York (1911) Ashcan school artists and friends at John French Sloan's Philadelphia Studio, 1898. American realism was a movement in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary ...

  8. Xavier J. Barile - Wikipedia

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    Xavier J. Barile (b. Saverio Barile) [1] (March 18, 1891 – October 12, 1981) was an American painter, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher born in Tufo, Italy.He worked in many mediums including oil, casein, watercolor, pen and ink, monotyping and etching creating figurative scenes, cityscapes, landscapes, seascapes and portraits.

  9. Stag at Sharkey's - Wikipedia

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    Stag at Sharkey's is a 1909 [1] oil painting by the American artist George Wesley Bellows depicting two boxers fighting in the private athletic club situated across from his studio. It is part of the Ashcan School movement known in particular for depicting scenes of daily life in early twentieth century New York City , often in the city's ...