ashcan

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Camp Ashcan had failed due to "indecision, lack of imagination and training" of the interrogators.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2021

In his teens and after he made creditable sketches and watercolors of New York, mostly in a style aligned with Ashcan School realism.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2019

She was friends with Klauber, who had studied with and recruited Ashcan School painter Robert Henri, who helped establish an art community in New Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2015

Among South African township talents, the late artists and friends George Pemba and Gerard Sekoto painted rich scenes of urban life. Sekoto’s Man on a Township Street has the gritty spirit of our Ashcan School.

From Forbes • May 8, 2015

But Henri and the painters of the Ashcan School he established were looking for an antidote to the hygienic, idealized art taught in the academies, and they relished wrapping themselves in a musky, deodorant-free rhetoric.

From Washington Post