Milwaukee Art Museum will host a major exhibition of America’s first modern art movement this autumn. “The Ashcan School and The Eight: ‘Creating a National Art’,” which opens Sept.

The painters of the Ashcan School enjoyed the good life. They drank at McSorley's bar in New York City, watched Isadora Duncan dance and took trips to Coney Island. Contrary to the way some art ...

The Ashcan School and The Eight is the unlikely name (ashcan, garbage can?) of the first American modern art movement, active in the early 20th century. But it was the fate of the Ashcan realists to ...

The Ashcan School, for example ... used as a disparagement by a New York City art critic in 1916. Columbus, Ohio, native George Bellows soon joined them. He became a student of Henri’s in ...

Sloan and the other artists of the Ashcan School, a group of painters in the early 20th century committed to exploring their urban environment and rendering its reality onto the canvas, were ...

Art went everywhere ... That happened to a painting by John Sloan, one of the original Ashcan school of painters who specialized in depicting the gritty reality of American cities in the early ...

A show at the Milwaukee Art Museum highlights the early 20th-century artists known as The Eight, who portrayed the gritty reality of urban America and were country’s first modern artists Lance ...