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Style: Ashcan School
Celestine
Celestine

Celestine

By Robert Henri

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Celestine, 1920 Oil on canvas, 32 x 26 inches (81.3 x 66 cm) Framed dimensions: 41 x 35 inches Signed lower right: Robert Henri Inscribed on verso: 26 / L Robert Henri / Celestine P...

Category

1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Stylish Woman
Portrait of Stylish Woman

Portrait of Stylish Woman

By George Luks

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Beautiful Ashcan School portrait of a woman in winter outerwear, 1909. Oil on canvas panel, measuring 17.75 x 18 inches; 21.75 x 22 inches framed. Original frame. Dated lower rig...

Category

Early 1900s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Oil, Board

The Magician. New York Ashcan School Magic Entertainment Watercolor Painting
The Magician. New York Ashcan School Magic Entertainment Watercolor Painting

The Magician. New York Ashcan School Magic Entertainment Watercolor Painting

Located in Marco Island, FL

A vibrant painting depicting a magician pulling doves from his hat for an enthusiastic audience. It captures a moment of modern city amusement that many artists, from Degas to Picas...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Woman in Red

Woman in Red

By Alexander Oscar Levy

Located in Buffalo, NY

Alexander O. Levy was a painter, illustrator, printmaker and designer who was born in 1881 in Bonn, Germany. He died in 1946 in Buffalo, New York. At age three, he was brought to ...

Category

1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Mal's (At Cliff Evan's Cabin)
Mal's (At Cliff Evan's Cabin)

Mal's (At Cliff Evan's Cabin)

Located in Salt Lake City, UT

Mal's (At Cliff Evan's Cabin), by Waldo Midgley. watercolor, 9 x 12 inches (Framed size: 18.5 x 21 inches), $1,500 Waldo Midgley (1888-1986) had a fruit...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Watercolor

“City Snow”
“City Snow”

“City Snow”

Located in Southampton, NY

Original watercolor and gouache city snowscape attributed to the hand of Hans Peter Nelson. Signed lower left ”H. Nelson”. Condition is excellent. Circa 1940. Under glass. The art...

Category

1940s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

“Flatiron Building, New York”
“Flatiron Building, New York”

“Flatiron Building, New York”

By Leon Dolice

Located in Southampton, NY

Original etching on archival paper by the well known New York artist, Leon Dolice. Signed in the plate middle bottom. View of New York City and the iconic Flatiron Building. Circa 1...

Category

1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Etching

Millard Sheets, Family Flats, 1935 (Los Angeles, CA, Depression-era tenements
Millard Sheets, Family Flats, 1935 (Los Angeles, CA, Depression-era tenements

Millard Sheets, Family Flats, 1935 (Los Angeles, CA, Depression-era tenements

By Millard Sheets

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...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Lithograph

”Admiring the Picture”
”Admiring the Picture”

”Admiring the Picture”

By Benjamin Kopman

Located in Southampton, NY

Very well executed original gouache on archival paper by the well known American artist Benjamin Kopman. The scene depicts three figures admiring a picture. Signed lower left. Circa ...

Category

1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

“The Rabbi’s”
“The Rabbi’s”

“The Rabbi’s”

By Nahum Tschacbasov

Located in Southampton, NY

Original oil on canvas painting by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov.. The painting depicts a group of rabbi’s in conversation in an interior setting. Circa 1...

Category

1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dorothy Varian, Witness
Dorothy Varian, Witness

Dorothy Varian, Witness

Located in New York, NY

Dorothy Varian (1895-1985) was based in New York City and Woodstock, NY. This is a courtroom scene that captures the intensity of the situation. It is s...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Pencil

“Chrysler Building, New York City”
“Chrysler Building, New York City”

“Chrysler Building, New York City”

By Leon Dolice

Located in Southampton, NY

Original pastel on archival paper by the well known New York artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower right by the artist. View of downtown New York City and the Chrysler Building. Circa 19...

Category

1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

William Gropper, (Choral Group)
William Gropper, (Choral Group)

William Gropper, (Choral Group)

By William Gropper

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 ...

Category

1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Screen

E. Mario Grenville, Mail Time
E. Mario Grenville, Mail Time

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 ...

Category

1940s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

“Untitled (Women Walking), c. 1945” Double-Sided NYC Street Manhattan Cityscape
“Untitled (Women Walking), c. 1945” Double-Sided NYC Street Manhattan Cityscape

“Untitled (Women Walking), c. 1945” Double-Sided NYC Street Manhattan Cityscape

By Reginald Marsh

Located in Yardley, PA

A fantastic example of Marsh’s renowned depictions of ladies walking in downtown Manhattan. This richly worked ink and wash composition captures a sidewalk populated by stylish women...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

D. Sidwell Feigin, Rain, Snow, and Time
D. Sidwell Feigin, Rain, Snow, and Time

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...

Category

1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Musical Conductor" Amy Londoner, Ashcan School, Figurative Concert Scene
"Musical Conductor" Amy Londoner, Ashcan School, Figurative Concert Scene

"Musical Conductor" Amy Londoner, Ashcan School, Figurative Concert Scene

By Amy Londoner

Located in New York, NY

Amy Londoner Musical Conductor, 1922 Signed and dated lower right Pastel on paper Sight 18 x 23 inches Amy Londoner (April 12, 1875 – 1951) was an American painter who exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show. One of the first students of the Henri School of Art in 1909. Prior to the Armory Show of 1913, Amy Londoner and her classmates studied with "Ashcan" painter Robert Henri at the Henri School of Art in New York, N.Y. One notable oil painting, 'The Vase', was painted by both Henri and Londoner. Londoner was born in Lexington, Missouri on April 12, 1875. Her parents were Moses and Rebecca Londoner, who moved to Leadville, Colorado, by 1880. In 1899, Amy took responsibility for her father who had come to Los Angeles from Leadville and had mental issues. By 1900, Amy was living with her parents and sister, Blanche, in the vicinity of Leadville, Denver, Colorado. While little was written about her early life, Denver City directories indicated that nineteenth-century members of the family were merchants, with family ties to New York, N.Y. The family had a male servant. Londoner traveled with her mother to England in 1907 then shortly later, both returned to New York in 1909. Londoner was 34 years old at the time, and, according to standards of the day, should have married and raised a family long before. Instead, she enrolled as one of the first students at the Henri School of Art in 1909. At the Henri School, Londoner established friendships with Carl Sprinchorn (1887-1971), a young Swedish immigrant, and Edith Reynolds (1883-1964), daughter of wealthy industrialist family from Wilkes-Barre, PA. Londoner's correspondence, which often included references to Blanche, listed the sisters' primary address as the Hotel Endicott at 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, NYC. Other correspondence also reached Londoner in the city via Mrs. Theodore Bernstein at 252 West 74th Street; 102 West 73rd Street; and the Independent School of Art at 1947 Broadway. In 1911, Londoner vacationed at the Hotel Trexler in Atlantic City, NJ. As indicated by an undated photograph, Londoner also spent time with Edith Reynolds and Robert Henri at 'The Pines', the Reynolds family estate in Bear Creek, PA. Through her connections with the Henri School, Londoner entered progressive social and professional circles. Henri's admonition, phrased in the vocabulary of his historical time period, that one must become a "man" first and an artist second, attracted both male and female students to classes where development of unique personal styles, tailored to convey individual insights and experiences, was prized above the mastery of standardized, technical skill. Far from being dilettantes, women students at the Henri School were daring individuals willing to challenge tradition. As noted by former student Helen Appleton Read, "it was a mark of defiance,to join the radical Henri group." As Henri offered educational alternatives for women artists, he initiated exhibition opportunities for them as well. Troubled by the exclusion of work by younger artists from annual exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, Henri was instrumental in organizing the no-jury, no-prize Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910. About half of the 103 artists included in the exhibition were or had been Henri students, while twenty of the twenty-six women exhibiting had studied with Henri. Among the exhibition's 631 pieces, nine were by Amy Londoner, including the notorious 'Lady with a Headache'. Similarly, fourteen of Henri's women students exhibited in the groundbreaking Armory Show of 1913, forming about eight percent of the American exhibitors and one-third of American women exhibitors. Of the nine documented works submitted by Londoner, five were rejected, while four pastels of Atlantic City beach scenes, including 'The Beach Umbrellas' now in the Remington Collection, were displayed. Following Henri's example, Londoner served as an art instructor for younger students at the Modern School, whose only requirement was to genuinely draw what they pleased. The work of dancer Isadora Duncan, another artist devoted to the ideals of a liberal education, was also lauded by the Modern School. Henri, who long admired Duncan and invited members of her troupe to model for his classes, wrote an appreciation of her for the Modern School journal in 1915. She was also the subject of Londoner's pastel Isadora Duncan and the Children: Praise Ye the Lord with Dance. In 1914, Londoner traveled to France to spend summer abroad, living at 99 rue Notre Dames des Champs, Paris, France. As the tenets of European modernism spread throughout the United States, Londoner showed regularly at venues which a new generation of artists considered increasingly passe, including the annual Society of Independent Artists' exhibitions between 1918 and 1934, and the Salons of America exhibition in 1922. Londoner also exhibited at the Morton Gallery, Opportunity Gallery, Leonard Clayton Gallery and Brownell-Lambertson Galleries in NYC. Her painting of a 'Blond Girl' was one of two works included in the College Art Associations Traveling Exhibition of 1929, which toured colleges across the country to broad acclaim. Londoner later in life suffered from illnesses then suffered a stroke which resulted in medical bills significantly mounting over the years that her old friends from the Henri School, including Carl Sprinchorn, Florence Dreyfous, Florence Barley, and Josephine Nivison Hopper, scrambled to raise funds and find suitable long-term care facilities for Londoner. Londoner later joined Reynolds in Bear Creek, PA. Always known for her keen wit, Londoner retained her humor and concern for her works even during her illness, noting that "if anything happens to the Endicott, I guess they will just throw them out." Sprinchorn and Reynolds, however, did not allow this to happen. In 1960, Londoner's paintings 'Amsterdam Avenue at 74th Street' and 'The Builders' were loaned by Reynolds to a show commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910, presented at the Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, DE. In the late 80's, Francis William Remington, 'Bill Remington', of Bear Creek Village PA, along with his neighbor and artist Frances Anstett Brennan, both had profound admiration for Amy Londoner's art work and accomplishments as a woman who played a significant role in the Ashcan movement. Remington acquired a significant number of Londoner's artwork along with Frances Anstett Brenan that later was part of an exhibition of Londoner's artwork in April 15 of 2007, at the Hope Horn...

Category

1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

"Jazz Club"
"Jazz Club"

"Jazz Club"

By Jane Gibbs

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Signed Lower Left

Category

20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Irving Place Burlesk
Irving Place Burlesk

Irving Place Burlesk

By Reginald Marsh

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...

Category

1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

"Portland Harbor, Maine, " Alexander Bower, Snowy River Scene in Winter
"Portland Harbor, Maine, " Alexander Bower, Snowy River Scene in Winter

"Portland Harbor, Maine, " Alexander Bower, Snowy River Scene in Winter

By Alexander Bower

Located in New York, NY

Alexander Bower (1875 - 1952) Portland Harbor, Maine, 1910 Oil on canvas 27 x 33 inches Signed and dated lower right An American Impressionist, Alexande Bower was born in New York, studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and was living with his wife in Cliff Island, Maine by 1914. Despite his urban upbringing, the coast and the sea fascinated Bower. A large portion of his paintings are seascapes, particularly scenes depicting the coast of Cape Elizabeth...

Category

1910s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Business-Men's Class, Y.M.C.A." George Bellows, Ashcan School Print
"Business-Men's Class, Y.M.C.A." George Bellows, Ashcan School Print

"Business-Men's Class, Y.M.C.A." George Bellows, Ashcan School Print

By George Wesley Bellows

Located in New York, NY

George Bellows Business-Men's Class, Y.M.C.A, 1916 Signed, numbered "No. 41" and titled lower margin Lithograph on wove paper 11 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches Edition of 64 Provenance: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York Private Collection, Ohio Literature: Mason, 20. After his arrival from Columbus, Ohio in 1904, Bellows lived at the West Side YMCA. It was there that he met Eugene Speicher, another aspiring young artist who was to become his lifelong friend. Always interested in the anatomy of the human body, Bellows often satirized the various types who, while leading a sedentary life, feel compelled to devote a portion of their daily routine to physical self-improvement. Throughout his brief but illustrious career, George Wesley Bellows created striking scenes that documented ordinary American life in all its beauty and banality. Considered an American Realist, the artist eschewed embellishment, finding inspiration in the gritty boroughs of New York City, the rocky coastline of Maine, and, later, in his friends and family. Bellows garnered early recognition for his arresting portrayals of illegal prizefighting, dramatic works executed in dark tonal palettes that underscore the brutality of the violent sport. Bellows’ elderly Methodist parents hoped their son might pursue the ministry, a calling the extroverted athlete never received. The Columbus native competed on the baseball team at Ohio State University and also served as an illustrator for the college yearbook. In the fall of 1904—just months shy of his expected graduation—Bellows defied his father’s wishes and boarded a train to New York City in hopes of becoming a magazine illustrator like his idols Howard Chandler Christy and Charles Dana Gibson. Before leaving, he reportedly turned down an offer to play professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds...

Category

1910s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

“East River New York Skyline”
“East River New York Skyline”

“East River New York Skyline”

By Leon Dolice

Located in Southampton, NY

Original pastel on archival paper by the well known New York artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower right by the artist. View of New York City skyline from the East River. Circa 1930. Con...

Category

1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

Portrait of a Clown at Circus (Ashcan School Artist)
Portrait of a Clown at Circus (Ashcan School Artist)

Portrait of a Clown at Circus (Ashcan School Artist)

By Everett Shinn

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Everett Shinn (1873-1953). Portrait of a Clown in Circus, 1947. Pencil. color pencil, gouache on paper. Sheet measures 8 x 10 inches. Framed measurement: 13 x 15 inches. Signed...

Category

1940s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Pencil, Color Pencil

Third Man 2, black and white, night scene, cityscape

Third Man 2, black and white, night scene, cityscape

By Tom Bennett

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surreal mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates r...

Category

2010s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Monotype

SHINE, WASHINGTON SQUARE

SHINE, WASHINGTON SQUARE

By John Sloan

Located in Portland, ME

Sloan, John. SHINE, WASHINGTON SQUARE. Morse 206. Etching, 1923. Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs," and further inscribed "Peter Platt imp." Morse says that 80 were print...

Category

1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

Leonard Pytlak, Side Street (New York City) Industrial lithograph, mid-century
Leonard Pytlak, Side Street (New York City) Industrial lithograph, mid-century

Leonard Pytlak, Side Street (New York City) Industrial lithograph, mid-century

By Leonard Pytlak

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...

Category

1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Lithograph

"After the Storm"
"After the Storm"

"After the Storm"

By John R. Grabach

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Signed LL John Grabach was a highly regarded New Jersey artist, teacher and author of a classic text, How to Draw the Human Figure. He was born in Massachusetts, and with his widow...

Category

20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City '— American Expressionism
'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City '— American Expressionism

'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 Art

Materials

Lithograph

James Penney, Police Station, Lawrence, Kansas
James Penney, Police Station, Lawrence, Kansas

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...

Category

1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Linocut

Norman Barr, Delancey Street (NYC)
Norman Barr, Delancey Street (NYC)

Norman Barr, Delancey Street (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. In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Crayon, India Ink

Ben Messick, (The Newspaper Story)
Ben Messick, (The Newspaper Story)

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...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Lithograph

“Headed to Market, 1916”
“Headed to Market, 1916”

“Headed to Market, 1916”

By Everett Shinn

Located in Southampton, NY

Original drawing of a woman heading to market by the well known American artist, Everett Shinn. Mixed media work created with charcoal, pastel and gouache. Signed with the artist’s initials lower right and dated 1916. Condition is very good. Under glass. Matted and in a period gold frame with restorations. Overall framed measurements are 23.5 by 17.25 inches. Provenance: A New York City estate. Everett Shinn (1876 – 1953) Everett Shinn, a realist artist associated with the Ashcan School and member of “The Eight” was born in New Jersey in 1876. After showing an aptitude for the arts as a child, at age 15, Shinn was enrolled at the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. He quickly moved on to classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and by the age of 17, he was working as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Press. While working at the Press, Shinn befriended fellow artists William J. Glackens, George Luks, and John Sloan. This group, with Robert Henri and Joseph Laub, established the Charcoal Club, a social and intellectual sort of alternative art school. In 1897, Shinn moved to New York City to work as an illustrator at the New York World. He became fascinated by the drama of the city. While visiting Europe in 1900, Shinn took interest in the work of the Impressionists, particularly those of Degas. Degas’ influence can be read in Shinn’s depictions of American theater. From his acquaintances in the theater world, Shinn began to paint decorative “rococo revivalist” murals in the homes of the wealthy elite. He also worked extensively in pastel, portraying the rough life of the city. In 1908, Shinn exhibited alongside his Charcoal Club associates, with the addition of Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, and Maurice Prendergast...

Category

1910s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel, Gouache

Ann Nooney, (Carnival Workers Resting, NYC)
Ann Nooney, (Carnival Workers Resting, NYC)

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 Art

Materials

Lithograph

New Year’s Eve and Adam
New Year’s Eve and Adam

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...

Category

1910s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

Ben Messick, Coffee and Donuts (Sinkers & Java)
Ben Messick, Coffee and Donuts (Sinkers & Java)

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...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Fishmonger 1940's New York Impasto Figurative Cityscape
The Fishmonger 1940's New York Impasto Figurative Cityscape

The Fishmonger 1940's New York Impasto Figurative Cityscape

By Dorothy Rossen Greenberg

Located in Soquel, CA

A vivid mid-century impasto figurative cityscape oil painting of New York during the 1940s by Dorothy Rossen Greenberg (American, 1915-2005). A Fishmonger plies his trade amidst a ha...

Category

1940s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Oil, Linen

Norman Barr, Coney Island (New York City)
Norman Barr, Coney Island (New York City)

Norman Barr, Coney Island (New York City)

By Norman Barr

Located in New York, NY

An idyllic scene at New York City's favorite beach, Coney Island. Before the year was over Barr was in the Army. It is ink and litho-crayon. Barr liked that medium because it didn't ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Norman Barr, Still Life
Norman Barr, Still Life

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...

Category

Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey" Amy Londoner, Ashcan School, Figurative
"Beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey" Amy Londoner, Ashcan School, Figurative

"Beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey" Amy Londoner, Ashcan School, Figurative

By Amy Londoner

Located in New York, NY

Amy Londoner Beach at Atlantic City, circa 1922 Signed lower right Pastel on paper Sight 23 x 18 inches Amy Londoner (April 12, 1875 – 1951) was an American painter who exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show. One of the first students of the Henri School of Art in 1909. Prior to the Armory Show of 1913, Amy Londoner and her classmates studied with "Ashcan" painter Robert Henri at the Henri School of Art in New York, N.Y. One notable oil painting, 'The Vase', was painted by both Henri and Londoner. Londoner was born in Lexington, Missouri on April 12, 1875. Her parents were Moses and Rebecca Londoner, who moved to Leadville, Colorado, by 1880. In 1899, Amy took responsibility for her father who had come to Los Angeles from Leadville and had mental issues. By 1900, Amy was living with her parents and sister, Blanche, in the vicinity of Leadville, Denver, Colorado. While little was written about her early life, Denver City directories indicated that nineteenth-century members of the family were merchants, with family ties to New York, N.Y. The family had a male servant. Londoner traveled with her mother to England in 1907 then shortly later, both returned to New York in 1909. Londoner was 34 years old at the time, and, according to standards of the day, should have married and raised a family long before. Instead, she enrolled as one of the first students at the Henri School of Art in 1909. At the Henri School, Londoner established friendships with Carl Sprinchorn (1887-1971), a young Swedish immigrant, and Edith Reynolds (1883-1964), daughter of wealthy industrialist family from Wilkes-Barre, PA. Londoner's correspondence, which often included references to Blanche, listed the sisters' primary address as the Hotel Endicott at 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, NYC. Other correspondence also reached Londoner in the city via Mrs. Theodore Bernstein at 252 West 74th Street; 102 West 73rd Street; and the Independent School of Art at 1947 Broadway. In 1911, Londoner vacationed at the Hotel Trexler in Atlantic City, NJ. As indicated by an undated photograph, Londoner also spent time with Edith Reynolds and Robert Henri at 'The Pines', the Reynolds family estate in Bear Creek, PA. Through her connections with the Henri School, Londoner entered progressive social and professional circles. Henri's admonition, phrased in the vocabulary of his historical time period, that one must become a "man" first and an artist second, attracted both male and female students to classes where development of unique personal styles, tailored to convey individual insights and experiences, was prized above the mastery of standardized, technical skill. Far from being dilettantes, women students at the Henri School were daring individuals willing to challenge tradition. As noted by former student Helen Appleton Read, "it was a mark of defiance,to join the radical Henri group." As Henri offered educational alternatives for women artists, he initiated exhibition opportunities for them as well. Troubled by the exclusion of work by younger artists from annual exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, Henri was instrumental in organizing the no-jury, no-prize Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910. About half of the 103 artists included in the exhibition were or had been Henri students, while twenty of the twenty-six women exhibiting had studied with Henri. Among the exhibition's 631 pieces, nine were by Amy Londoner, including the notorious 'Lady with a Headache'. Similarly, fourteen of Henri's women students exhibited in the groundbreaking Armory Show of 1913, forming about eight percent of the American exhibitors and one-third of American women exhibitors. Of the nine documented works submitted by Londoner, five were rejected, while four pastels of Atlantic City beach scenes, including 'The Beach Umbrellas' now in the Remington Collection, were displayed. Following Henri's example, Londoner served as an art instructor for younger students at the Modern School, whose only requirement was to genuinely draw what they pleased. The work of dancer Isadora Duncan, another artist devoted to the ideals of a liberal education, was also lauded by the Modern School. Henri, who long admired Duncan and invited members of her troupe to model for his classes, wrote an appreciation of her for the Modern School journal in 1915. She was also the subject of Londoner's pastel Isadora Duncan and the Children: Praise Ye the Lord with Dance. In 1914, Londoner traveled to France to spend summer abroad, living at 99 rue Notre Dames des Champs, Paris, France. As the tenets of European modernism spread throughout the United States, Londoner showed regularly at venues which a new generation of artists considered increasingly passe, including the annual Society of Independent Artists' exhibitions between 1918 and 1934, and the Salons of America exhibition in 1922. Londoner also exhibited at the Morton Gallery, Opportunity Gallery, Leonard Clayton Gallery and Brownell-Lambertson Galleries in NYC. Her painting of a 'Blond Girl' was one of two works included in the College Art Associations Traveling Exhibition of 1929, which toured colleges across the country to broad acclaim. Londoner later in life suffered from illnesses then suffered a stroke which resulted in medical bills significantly mounting over the years that her old friends from the Henri School, including Carl Sprinchorn, Florence Dreyfous, Florence Barley, and Josephine Nivison Hopper, scrambled to raise funds and find suitable long-term care facilities for Londoner. Londoner later joined Reynolds in Bear Creek, PA. Always known for her keen wit, Londoner retained her humor and concern for her works even during her illness, noting that "if anything happens to the Endicott, I guess they will just throw them out." Sprinchorn and Reynolds, however, did not allow this to happen. In 1960, Londoner's paintings 'Amsterdam Avenue at 74th Street' and 'The Builders' were loaned by Reynolds to a show commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910, presented at the Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, DE. In the late 80's, Francis William Remington, 'Bill Remington', of Bear Creek Village PA, along with his neighbor and artist Frances Anstett Brennan, both had profound admiration for Amy Londoner's art work and accomplishments as a woman who played a significant role in the Ashcan movement. Remington acquired a significant number of Londoner's artwork along with Frances Anstett Brenan that later was part of an exhibition of Londoner's artwork in April 15 of 2007, at the Hope Horn...

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1920s Ashcan School Art

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Paper, Pastel

Saul Raskin, The Cry of Union Square, about 1935
Saul Raskin, The Cry of Union Square, about 1935

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 Art

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Etching

Ann Michalov, A View of the Park
Ann Michalov, A View of the Park

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 Art

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Lithograph

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