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Style: Ashcan School
Man on His Back, Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Man on His Back, Nude
Lithograph, c. 1916
Signed by the artist lower right: Geo Bellows (see photo)
Annotated bottom left: No. 3 by the artist (see photo)
An unredorded trial proof b...
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1910s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'A Morning in May' — Ashcan School Social Realism, New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Reginald Marsh, 'A Morning in May', etching, 1936, edition 100 (Whitney, 1969), Sasowsky 169. Unsigned as published; numbered '89/100' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, ...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
'Locomotives Watering' — Ashcan School Social Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Reginald Marsh, 'Erie R.R. Locos Watering (Locomotives Watering)', etching, 1934, edition 100 (Whitney, 1969), Sasowsky 155. Unsigned as published; numbered '68/100' in pencil. A su...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Early 20th Century Social Realism Etching by John Sloan -- Bandits Cave
Located in Soquel, CA
1920 Social Realism Etching by John French Sloan titled "Bandits Cave"
Compelling etching by John Sloan (American 1871 - 1951), 1920 during first year of prohibition showing a estab...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Minna Citron, Heifer
By Minna Citron
Located in New York, NY
This subject, Heifer, relates to Citron's mural project focusing on the Tennessee Valley Authority.
It is signed, dated, and annotated 'Et...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Don Freeman, (At the Booking Desk)
By Don Freeman
Located in New York, NY
Don Freeman is best known for his paintings and works on paper of New York City's theatre industry: the signage, the stages and sets, the actors, the costumers and ushers, anything a...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Lawrence Beall Smith, Solitude
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Beall Smith draws four men in a park, each with his back to a giant, strong tree. The year is 1938 and the country is coming out of the Depression but World War II is alread...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Joseph Webster Golinkin, On the Dock, Banana Boat, New Orleans
Located in New York, NY
Chicago-born Golinkin studied at the Artist Students League with George Luks. After working as an illustrator for New York papers he joined the Navy in 1939 and retired as a Rear Adm...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Daniel in the Lions' Den
Located in New York, NY
Ukrainian-born, lower East Side based, Sarah Berman was active on the NYC-WPA and in artists' circles. Daniel in the Lions' Den is an etching, signed and ...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Ann Michalov, A View of the Park
Located in New York, NY
Originally from Illinois, Ann Michalov worked in Spokane, Seattle and Portland, where she finally settled. This lithograph however really looks very like ...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Leonard Pytlak, (Industrial Landscape, New York City)
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph is signed and number in pencil. It is numbered 18/18 indicating there were 18 impressions of this subject printed.
Category
1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Room for One More (New York City Subway)
By Irving Guyer
Located in New York, NY
This Depression-era New York City subway scene says it all. The body language of all five passengers tells us where each of them is in his or her ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Leonard Pytlak, Side Street (New York City)
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph is signed in pencil.
Leonard Pytlak lived on the East Side of Manhattan and this image recalls the 59th Street Bridge (also known as the Queensboro Bridge and the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge), completed in 1909. It goes from Manhattan to Queens and passes over Roosevelt Island...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Norman Barr, Still Life
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr made mural on the NYC-WPA; this lithograph was made in the WPA workshop but was not published by the WPA. The next year he was in the Army! Thi...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Ann Nooney, (Carnival Workers Resting, NYC)
By Ann Nooney
Located in New York, NY
The dimensions are for the image; there are large margins. This lithograph is signed in pencil.
A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970) recorded the urban scene while on the Wo...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City '— American Expressionism
By Frederick K. Detwiller
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Frederick K. Detwiller, 'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City', lithograph, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Lith 20' in pencil. Inscribed 'To my Friend Herbert L. Jones' in pencil. Signed and dated, in the stone, lower right; initialed and dated '1927' in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with margins (7/8 to 1 1/4 inches); slight toning in the top left sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.
Image size 20 1/2 x 14 inches (521 x 356 mm); sheet size 22 1/2 x 16 inches (572 x 406 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
The Sixth Avenue El was constructed in the late 1870s by the Gilbert Elevated Railway and reorganized as the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. By 1878, it was running from Rector Street to 58th Street. Soon after that, it was taken over by the Manhattan Railway Company, with three other Manhattan elevated train lines. The company built a connection, the ‘spur’ by which it turned west on 53rd Street to merge with the 9th Avenue El—paralleling the present-day route of the 6th Avenue subway.
The Sixth Avenue El served the “Ladies Mile” shops (including the Siegel-Cooper emporium, whose building now houses Bed...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Blanche Grambs, Waterfront, New York City
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, known to friends as 'Grambs' (1916-2010) was born in China. She came to New York as a very young woman to study at the Art Students Leag...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Irving Place Burlesk
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irving Place Burlesque
Etching, 1930
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition)
Numbered in pencil lower left
Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right
From: Reginald Marsh...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Owen Weiri (also Wiiri), The Coal Miner
Located in New York, NY
Owen Weiri (also Wiiri, 1916-1974) was a Finnish-American who served in the Spanish Civil War and then, during World War ll, in the American armed forces as a marine.
Industrial sub...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
D. Sidwell Feigin, Rain, Snow, and Time
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph shows the Obelisk (Cleopatra’s Needle), 1425 BCE, in Central Park, New York City, just behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Greywacke Knoll. (This makes it a double example of ‘art about art.’) Carved from a single piece of granite from Aswan, it was gifted to this country by the Khedive Ismail Pasha...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Fred Nagler, (Cows in a Pasture)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
Massachusetts-born Fred Nagler studied at the Art Students League from 1914 to 1917, with George Bridgeman and Robert Henri, and eventually became a member of the Board of Control. He taught at the Connecticut College for Women, and after the death of Grant Wood, the University of Iowa State...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Charles Pont, Splicing
Located in New York, NY
An old sailor is shown at work on a what must be a huge sailing vessel. He's splicing, or joining ropes together -- probably still a useful skill in the mi...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Man, Wife and Child
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Man, Wife and Child
Etching, 1905
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist below image (see photo)
Annotated in pencil by the artist "100 proofs"
Signed and dated in the plate lower...
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
TWO GIRLS IN SUBWAY
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. TWO GIRLS IN SUBWAY. S.58. Etching, 1928.
Printed on cream-colored wove paper, with a watermark, upper left.
One of only two proofs of ...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Irish Fair
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irish Fair
Lithograph, 1923
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Titled "Irish Fair" by the artist in pencil
Edition: 84
Housed in an archival frame with acid free matting (see photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist, Bellows Family Trust
H.V. Allison & Company (label)
Private Collection, Columbus
References And Exhibitions:
Reference: Mason 153
Note: An illustration commissioned by The Century Company for Don Byrne's novel The Wind Bloweth
Image: 18 7/8 x 21 3/8"
Frame: 29 1/2 x 30 1/2"
“Eleven on a hot July morning, and the little town...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Norman Barr, Fulton St. Fish Market (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
Although Barr was on the Mural Project of the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Lawrence Beall Smith, Seaside Nomads
Located in New York, NY
A perfect summer day. A young mother, little boy, and even smaller girl have their luncheon under a make shift 'fly' -- a stripped cloth canopy fixed up with poles. Although it is titled 'Seaside Nomads,' to me it has the look of a bay or inlet. It's relatively flat and there are all sorts of grasses, old...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Convalescent
Located in New York, NY
Mathilde de Cordoba was born in New York City and spent her career there. She is known for her studies of women and children.
Convalescent is sign...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Joseph Hirsch, (Cutting the Beard)
Located in New York, NY
A man with lots of whiskers is trimming his facial hair while looking in a mirror. The male figure and his beard are carefully drawn but Hirsch has cleverly just briefly sketched in ...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Raul Anguiano, Lime Kilns (Hornos de Cal), Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
Located in New York, NY
Raul Anguiano (1915-2006) was an artist associated with the second wave of Mexican Muralists.
This lithograph, Lime Kilns, was published in the Mexican Peoples Portfolio in 1947. M...
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1940s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Kachinsky, Graphite Factory
Located in New York, NY
Russian-born and European-educated Alexander Kachinsky was a designer of stage sets (for the Ballet Russe), furniture, and commercial interiors. His prints are in the collection of t...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Millard Sheets, Family Flats, 1935 (Los Angeles, CA, Depression-era tenements
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and numbered, in pencil. The proposed edition was 100 although it is very unlikely that these were printed.
This large and intensely urban lithograph, Family Flats, by Millard Sheets, portrays the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles. Now drastically changed, it's still home to the Angels Flight funicular railway built in 1901.
Sheets (1907-1989) was a painter, watercolorist, printmaker, mosaic artist, and teacher, who worked in Southern California. He attended the Chouinard Art institute and studied with F. Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
David Feinstein, Negro District, Brooklyn, 1936-39, WPA lithograph
Located in New York, NY
David Feinstein's Negro District, Brooklyn, a lithograph of 1936-39, is a marvel. It's a construction of every detail the artist could think of to show the nature of the locale: The ...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
William Gropper, (Choral Group)
Located in New York, NY
An early serigraph (screen print) by William Gropper. There's a harpist to provide the music and a choir master conducting. The seated members of the group are individually drawn as ...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Screen
'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet' — New York City American Scene, Ashcan School
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Glenn O. Coleman, 'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet', lithograph 1928, edition 50. Signed, dated, and numbered '14/50' in pencil. Titled in the bottom left margin, in an...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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James Penney, Police Station, Lawrence, Kansas
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. Th...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
John W. Gregory, North End Street Scene (Boston)
Located in New York, NY
Boston's North End is a charming Italian neighborhood with small buildings and twisting streets. The artist, John W. Gregory, captures the feeling of a pleasant afternoon visiting th...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
New Year’s Eve and Adam
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Sloan, 'New Year's Eve and Adam', etching, 1918, edition 100, (only 85 printed), Morse 190. Signed, titled and annotated '100 proofs' in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, l...
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1910s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Fred Nagler, Harlem River (New York City)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
Massachusetts-born Fred Nagler studied at the Art Students League from 1914 to 1917, with George Bridgeman and Robert Henri, and eventually became a member of the Board of Control. ...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Ben Messick, (The Newspaper Story)
By Ben Messick
Located in New York, NY
Ben Messick perfectly captures the world of the 'Ashcan' period: Everyday life, local characters, people we could still meet today. He could draw like a son-of-a-gun! And this is a v...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
James Penney, Point of Order
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. The New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress both have collections of his work.
Signed, titled, and dated.
Especially like the test marks at the lower right and the way the lawyer is leaning/relaxing on the judge...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Saul Raskin, The Cry of Union Square, about 1935
By Saul Raskin
Located in New York, NY
Saul Raskin's Cry of Union Square, has all my favorite things: a view of Union Square with S. Klein's department store on the right and a Chop Suey restaurant on the left. There's a ...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Irving Guyer, Sleepers
By Irving Guyer
Located in New York, NY
Classic American Depression-Era subject meets the French landscape? Clearly the Guyer was looking at both Jean-Francois Millet and Vincent Van Gogh, who together informed this image....
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Nude at Piano
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Sloan, 'Nude at Piano', 1933, etching, edition 100, (only 85 printed), Morse 265. Signed, titled and annotated '100 proofs' in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
John W. Gregory, Approaching Night, Atwood Avenue, Provincetown, MA
Located in New York, NY
Gregory worked mostly in lithography, probably learned at the Art Students League in New York City. However he often drew New England subjects, so this evening Provincetown scene is ...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
E. Mario Grenville, Mail Time
Located in New York, NY
Mario Grenville made this print for the publishing program of Associated American Artists. It was issued in 1945 making it a calm antidote to the ending of World War II, although it ...
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1940s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Ann Nooney, (New York City Scene)
By Ann Nooney
Located in New York, NY
The dimensions are for the image; there are large margins. This lithograph is signed in pencil.
A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970) recorded the urban scene while on the Works Progress...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Blanche Grambs, Unemployed
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, known to friends as 'Grambs' (1916-2010) was born in China. She came to New York as a very young woman to study at the Art Students Leag...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Sketch of Anne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sketch of Anne
Lithograph, 1923-1924
Signed and titled by the artist, signed by his printer Bolton Brown
Edition: 42
Printed by Bolton Brown (see photo of his signature in pencil)
Pr...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Fred Nagler, (Crucifixion)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Crucifixion) is signed and titled in pencil. Signed 'Fred' and possibly dated '27' in the image at lower left.
It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagl...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
James Penney, Test Stone, Touche
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. The New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress both have collections of his work.
Signed, titled, and dated, and annotated 'Test #1' in pencil.
Note entirely sure what's going on here...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Fred Nagler, (Road to Calvary)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Road to Calvary) is signed in pencil.
It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagler did use occasionally. Here it emphasizes the meagerness of the scene. T...
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1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Sid Gotcliffe, Tompkins Square Park, about 1940
By Sid Gotcliffe
Located in New York, NY
British-born Sid Gotcliffe has made a powerfully poignant image in the lithograph Tompkins Square Park.
At the center sit three men dressed in black. Their clothes suggest they bel...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Harry R. Rein, Competition, 1936-39, WPA linocut
Located in New York, NY
If ever there was an image that fit the description of 'Ashcan,' Harry Rein's Competition, made for the NYC WPA, is clearly it!
Some impressions have the WPA sstamp, including the o...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Linocut
Moses Oley, Quarry
Located in New York, NY
Moses Oley drew an industrial scene, but one very much in isolation. The quarry equipment looks both imposing and busy. There appears to be smoke coming fro...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Harry Wickey, Stallion and Mare
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
Also a sculptor, Harry Wickey was a master printmaker and Art Students League teacher.
This rural scene pre-dates the much better known, very close subject, John Steuart Curry's li...
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1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Philip Evergood, (The New York Times)
Located in New York, NY
The ever-quirky Philip Evergood has composed a print that is at once a World War II image (The New York Times on the table has the headline 'Japs Bomb P...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Joseph LeBoit, Derby Winner
Located in New York, NY
Joseph (Joe) Leboit made this extremely intense image of a supposedly happy recipient of a 'Derby Winner.' (Probably refers to the Irish Derby.) In fact the couple and seventeen chil...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Ben Messick, Coffee and Donuts (Sinkers & Java)
By Ben Messick
Located in New York, NY
Ben Messick perfectly captures the world of the 'Ashcan' period: Everyday life, local characters, people we could still meet today. He could draw like a son-of-a-gun! The date of 194...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Alexander Kachinsky, Uptown, NYC
Located in New York, NY
Russian-born and European-educated Alexander Kachinsky was a designer of stage sets (for the Ballet Russe), furniture, and commercial interiors. His prints are in the collection of t...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Ashcan School prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Ashcan School prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including John Sloan, James Penney, Reginald Marsh, and Fred Nagler. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Ashcan School prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 2.75 inches across are also available. Prices for prints and multiples made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $300 and tops out at $13,500, while the average work sells for $900.