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 ...

I n art circles, Margery Ryerson is best known for compiling and editing letters, lectures and critiques by her teacher and Ashcan School founder Robert Henri for “The Art Spirit,” considered ...

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 ...