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 ...

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.

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. 23 ...

A change of cities is not convincing evidence of “new art.” The freshest works of the collection are Sloan’s etchings and Bellows’ lithographs. Nevertheless, the Ashcan School painters were an ...

Q Long before I was born, my parents acquired this painting and it hung over our living room fireplace. It was done by Howard Baer, measures 28 by 20 inches and has his signature on the lower ...

I’m a fan of John Sloan, the Ashcan School artist who was in his prime a century ago. Most seem to think of him as a respectable also-ran. But his paintings and drawings of New York, concentrating on ...

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 ...