George Luks

George Benjamin Luks, (1867 – 1933)

Girl in Green (c. 1923)

Upper Manhattan (1915)

George Benjamin Luks, (August 13, 1867–October 29, 1933) was an American realist artist and illustrator. His vigorously painted genre paintings of urban subjects are examples of the Ashcan School of American art.

William James Glackens

William James Glackens (American, 1870 – 1938)

Descending from the Bus, 1910

Street Cleaners, Washington Square circa 1910



29 Washington Square, 1911-1912



Natalie in a Blue Skirt, 1914



Café Lafayette (Portrait of Kay Laurel) 1914

Temple Gold Medal Nude 1924

A Red Hair Model

Hillside with Olive Trees (Rue de Varenne), 1925

Town of Venice, 1925-26 oil on board 31.7 x 40.6 cm

 L'Apertif, 1926, oil on canvas  45.7 x 37.6 cm

Bal Martinique 1926

Foothills of the White Mountains oil on canvas board 30.5 x 40.6 cm

Along the Marne, 1925

Nude in Green Chair (unfinished), 1924 [after] oil on canvas

Bowlers, La Ciotat, 1930
oil on canvas 63.5 x 76.2 cm



The Soda Fountain, 1935 oil on canvas 121.9 x 91.4 cm

Storm over the Beach

William James Glackens (March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938) was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School of American art. He is also known for his work in helping Albert C. Barnes to acquire the European paintings that form the nucleus of the famed Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. His dark-hued, vibrantly painted street scenes and depictions of daily life in pre-WW I New York and Paris first established his reputation as a major artist. His later work was brighter in tone and showed the strong influence of Renoir. During much of his career as a painter, Glackens also worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines in Philadelphia and New York City.

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John French Sloan (4*)

Dunes at Annisquam

Sunset, West Twenty-Third Street - 1905-1906

Six O’Clock, Winter 1912

Tittering Girls, 1915

John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951) was an American artist. As a member of The Eight, he became a leading figure in the Ashcan School of realist artists. He was known for his urban genre painting and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often through his window. Sloan has been called "the premier artist of the Ashcan School who painted the inexhaustible energy and life of New York City during the first decades of the twentieth century", and an "early twentieth-century realist painter who embraced the principles of socialism and placed his artistic talents at the service of those beliefs."

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American realism: Robert Henri

Robert Henri (American, 1865 – 1929)

The Beach, Concarneau (1899)

The Rain Clouds (Paris), 1902

Ship in the Bay, circa 1903

Rough Seas Near Lobster Point (1903)

Segovia, Spain (1906)

Evening Sky

West Coast of Ireland, 1913

Betalo Nude, 1916

Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mata Moana

Zara Levy, nude (1923)

Portrait of Sarah Burke (1924) 

oil on canvas 59.7 x 49.5 cm

Bernadita (1926)

Robert Henri (24 June 1865 – 12 July 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School of American realism and an organizer of the group known as "The Eight," a loose association of artists who protested the restrictive exhibition practices of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design.

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