100 greatest works by Bellows, Sloan, and the other painters of the Ashcan School. This book presents 100 of the greatest paintings, pastels, drawings, and prints by a group of artists derogatorily dubbed the Ashcan School by the critics. George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan ignored the romantic and lofty themes of many of their contemporaries and chose instead to depict the dramatic changes and conflicting social mores among the common people in turn-of-the-century New York City. The Ashcan artists documented the city and its people in an almost journalistic fashion, exploring the same subjects occupying the press: immigration, the lower-middle class, and gender issues. They portrayed life at the street level, gravitating to bars, street corners, boxing clubs, beaches, parks, restaurants, movie theaters, and neighborhood meeting places. In retrospect, it is difficult to imagine the American tradition in painting without these wonderful and moving works. 110 full-color and 100 black-and-white illustrations

Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917

Arts & Photography

Mecklenburg, Virginia M.

Zurier, Rebecca

Snyder, Robert W.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

W.W.Norton&Company

Picturing the City takes an innovative look at the group of urban realists known as the Ashcan School, and at the booming cultures of vision and representation in early twentieth-century New York. Offering fresh insights into the development of modern cities and modern art in America, Rebecca Zurier considers what it meant to live in a city where strangers habitually watched each other and public life seemed to consist of continual display, as new classes of immigrants and working women claimed their places in the metropolis. Through her study of six artistsGeorge Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John SloanZurier illuminates the quest for new forms of realism to describe changes in urban life, commercial culture, and codes of social conduct in the early 1900s. Synthesizing visual and literary analysis with urban cultural history, Picturing the City focuses new attention on the materiality and design process of pictures. The author scrutinizes all manner of visual activity, from the pandemonium of comics to the mise-en-scene of early movies, from the mark of an individual pen stroke to a glance on the street, from illustrators’ manuals to ambitious paintings that became icons of American art. By situating the Ashcan School within its proper visual culture, Zurier opens up the question of what the artists’ realism” meant at a time when many other forms of representation, including journalism and cinema, were competing to define real life” in New York City.

Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School

History & Criticism

University of California Press

A study of The Masses, a leftist magazine, for its art work, its graphic innovations, and its political objectives

Art For The Masses: A Radical Magazine and Its Graphics 1911 - 1917

Graphic Design

Temple University Press

Artists' Biographies by Elise K. Kenney and Earl Davis. Illustrated in black and white. 171+ 1 pages. stiff paper wrappers.. 4to..

Art for the Masses, (1911-1917): A radical magazine and its graphics

Yale University Art Gallery

Looks at fire station architecture across the U.S., traces the history of fire departments, and shows how fire fighting equipment has changed

The American Firehouse: An Architectural and Social History

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Artabras

Looks at fire station architecture across the United States, traces the history of fire departments, and shows how fire fighting equipment has changed

The Firehouse: An Architectural and Social History

Architecture

Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York

National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

Smithsonian Inst Natl Museum of

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